paper
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Is paper a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Ellipsis of wallpaper.Examples: "The paperhangers had just finished hanging the paper in the dining room when the interior decorator walked in and exclaimed that it was the wrong color."; "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."abbreviationalt-ofellipsisuncountable
2. (uncountable) Ellipsis of wrapping paper.Examples: "In those days, you asked the butcher for a block of cheese, and he wrapped it up in paper for you."; "The kids could hardly wait to tear the paper off their Christmas gifts."abbreviationalt-ofellipsisuncountable
3. (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.countableuncountable
4. (British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.BritishHong-Kongcountableuncountable
5. (slang) Money.countableslanguncountable
6. (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.Examples: "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."; "[…] three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges […]"uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To apply paper to.Examples: "to paper the hallway walls"transitive
2. (transitive) To document; to memorialize.Examples: "After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up."transitive
3. (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.Examples: "Later, seat-filling or “papering” services cropped up, with organizations like Audience Extras, Play-by-Play, […]"Synonyms: paper the housetransitive
4. (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).Examples: "As powerhouse lawyers shuttled to Cuba to meet clients and papered the federal courts with habeas corpus petitions, Guantanamo's isolation and lack of publicity, once the military's most powerful psychological weapon, was eliminated."; "[…] the warning received only six weeks later for poor attendance as proof that the employer was unjustly papering his personnel file in an effort to create a reason for discharge."transitive
5. (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.transitive
6. (transitive) To sandpaper.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary