English Dictionary

paper

/ˈpeɪpə/

noun

A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

I need to buy some paper for my printer.

意味（1）

A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

意味（2）

A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make, said Jim, but I was at Winchester and New College. ¶ That will do, said Mackenzie. I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. […].

意味（3）

(uncountable) Wallpaper.

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Wrapping paper.

意味（5）

(rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

意味（6）

A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.

意味（7）

A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).

意味（8）

A scholastic essay.

This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

意味（9）

(Britain) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.

意味（10）

(slang) Money.

意味（11）

(finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie.

Why might not a Government annuity, the Principal of which was originally invested in Paper since the Cash suspension in 1797, be constituted the guarantee of Paper Money, emendating from that investiture and suspension, and the Parliament authority transferred to its security, as it has been to its creation, in preference to all others, while Paper continues our general Medium.

意味（12）

(New Zealand) A university course.

意味（13）

A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

意味（14）

A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.

cantharides paper

意味（15）

A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.

意味（16）

(dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.

意味（17）

(dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.