Paper is a material that you write things on or wrap things in.
You can refer to several sheets of paper with information on them as papers.
Don't refer to a single sheet of paper as 'a paper'. You refer to it as a sheet of paper or, if it is small, a piece of paper.
A newspapers is often referred to as a paper.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() card - one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes; "he collected cards and traded them with the other boys" confetti - small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding) material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" art paper - a high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay) blotter, blotting paper - absorbent paper used to dry ink blueprint paper - sensitized paper used to make blueprints cellulose - a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers carbon paper, carbon - a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper cardboard, composition board - a stiff moderately thick paper cartridge paper - paper for making cartridge cases chad - a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape computer paper - paper folded to permit continuous printing controlled by a computer construction paper - paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts crepe, crepe paper - paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations drawing paper - paper that is specially prepared for use in drafting filter paper - a porous unsized paper used for filtering flypaper - paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies graph paper - paper that has lines to permit drawing graphs greaseproof paper - paper that is impermeable to oil or grease; used in cooking linen paper, linen - a high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish litmus paper - unsized paper treated with litmus for use as an acid-base indicator manifold paper, manifold - a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies; "an original and two manifolds" manila, manila paper, manilla, manilla paper - a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp music paper, score paper - paper with lines appropriate for writing music newsprint, newspaper - cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers; "they used bales of newspaper every day" oilpaper - paper that has been made translucent and waterproof by soaking in oil india paper - a thin tough opaque paper used in fine books paper tape - a long narrow strip of paper paper toweling - absorbent paper used as toweling paper-mache, papier-mache - a substance made from paper pulp that can be molded when wet and painted when dry papyrus - paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans parchment - a superior paper resembling sheepskin rice paper - a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree roofing paper, tar paper - a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing ticker tape - a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written tissue paper, tissue - a soft thin (usually translucent) paper tracing paper - a semitransparent paper that is used for tracing drawings transfer paper - a paper that is coated with a preparation for transferring a design to another surface wallpaper - a decorative paper for the walls of rooms waste paper - paper discarded after use wax paper - paper that has been waterproofed by treatment with wax or paraffin wrapping paper - a tough paper used for wrapping writing paper - paper material made into thin sheets that are sized to take ink; used for writing correspondence and manuscripts |
2. | paper - an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" essay - an analytic or interpretive literary composition term paper - a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term | |
3. | ![]() public press, press - the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines rotogravure - printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press daily - a newspaper that is published every day gazette - a newspaper or official journal school newspaper, school paper - a newspaper written and published by students in a school feature article, feature - a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning" headline, newspaper headline - the heading or caption of a newspaper article sports section - the section of a newspaper that reports on sports news item - an item in a newspaper cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies, strip - a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | |
4. | paper - a medium for written communication; "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd" medium - a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information page - one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains | |
5. | paper - a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses; "he has written many scientific papers" article - nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication | |
6. | paper - a business firm that publishes newspapers; "Murdoch owns many newspapers" publisher, publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house - a firm in the publishing business | |
7. | paper - the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper" product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" | |
Verb | 1. | paper - cover with paper; "paper the box" cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
2. | ![]() cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |