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paper

English

Etymology

From Middle English paper, borrowed from Anglo-Norman paper, papier, from Latin pap?rus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros). Doublet of papyrus.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pe?p?/
  • (General American) enPR: p?'p?r, IPA(key): /?pe?p?/
  • (Indian English) IPA(key): [?pe?p?(r)], [?pe?p?(r)]
  • Rhymes: -e?p?(?)

Noun

paper (countable and uncountable, plural papers)

  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.
  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. []."
  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.
  4. (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
  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.
  6. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
  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).
  8. A scholastic essay.
  9. (Britain) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
  10. (slang) Money.
  11. (New Zealand) A university course.
  12. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
  13. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
  14. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
  15. (dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
  16. (dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.

Synonyms

  • (medium used in writing): bookfell

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

paper (not comparable)

  1. Made of paper.
    • At twilight in the summer [] the mice come out. They [] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly [] on the floor.
  2. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
    • 2016: Manila Standard, "Speed limiter law: A paper tiger"; Maricel Cruz
      Speed limiter law: A paper tiger
    • 2016: The Australian, "China says Australia ‘is no paper tiger, only a paper cat at best’"; Rowan Callick
      It concluded that Australia was “not even a paper tiger, it’s only a paper cat at best”
  3. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
    • 2015: Flight Global, "Airbus Helicopters to begin Arrano tests for H160 shortly"; Dominic Perr
      We have to be able to demonstrate that it is not just a paper engine but a real engine
    • 2015: CBS News, "ULA unveils new rocket to replace Russian boosters"; William Harwood
      In a background teleconference hosted by SpaceX late last week, an unnamed official dismissed ULA's new booster as a "paper rocket," saying he doubted it would be significantly cheaper than ULA's current stable of launchers.
    • 2010: BBC News, "Pratt & Whitney eyes global plane engine deals"; Jorn Madslien
      Ours is not a paper engine... these are real engines that are in production today
    • 2010: Spaceflight Now, "Musk refutes report slamming safety standards"; Stephen Clark
      "The Ares 1 is a paper rocket that's far off in the future," Musk said. "Falcon 9 is a real rocket, most of which is at Cape Canaveral right now."
  4. Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
    a paper baron; a paper lord

Translations

See also

  • paper tiger

Verb

paper (third-person singular simple present papers, present participle papering, simple past and past participle papered)

  1. (transitive) To apply paper to.
    to paper the hallway walls
  2. (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
    After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
  3. (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
    As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.
  4. (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
  5. (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
  6. (transitive) To sandpaper.
  7. (transitive) To enfold in paper.
  8. To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

Translations


Catalan

Etymology

First attested 1249. From Latin pap?rus (via a semi-learned route and adapted to a Catalan suffix; cf. Medieval Latin paperium), from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros). Paper-making was introduced to Europe by the Arabs in the Middle Ages through Italy and Spain. Compare also Old Occitan and French papier, Occitan papièr, Old French paper.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /p??pe/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /pa?pe?/

Noun

paper m (plural papers)

  1. paper
  2. role

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “paper” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “paper” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “paper” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References


Latvian

Verb

paper

  1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of pap?rt
  2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of pap?rt
  3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of pap?rt
  4. 2rd singular imperative form of pap?rt
  5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of pap?rt
  6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of pap?rt

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • papyre, papere, papure, papyr, papir, paupir, pauper

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman paper, from Latin pap?rus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa?p??r/, /pa??p??r/, /?pa?p?r/, /?pap?r/, /?pa?pi?r/

Noun

paper (plural papyres)

  1. paper (a thin, white, and flat writing surface made of wood)
  2. A text, message or note; something that is written.
  3. A record or accounting document.

Descendants

  • English: paper
  • Scots: paper

References

  • “pap??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • papere
  • papir
  • papire
  • papier

Etymology

From Latin pap?rus (likely via a northern Italian intermediate, itself a semi-learned derivative of Medieval Latin paperium), from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros). Cf. the regional variant paupier. Cognate with Old Occitan papier. Compare also the Medieval Judeo-French paveil (type of reed), inherited from a Vulgar Latin form *papelius. Paper-making was introduced to Europe by the Arabs in the Middle Ages through Italy and Spain/Catalonia.

Noun

paper m (oblique plural papers, nominative singular papers, nominative plural paper)

  1. reed (plant)
  2. paper (for writing on, etc.)
  3. document

Descendants

  • ? Middle English: paper
    • English: paper
  • French: papier
  • Norman: papier, papi

References

  • paper on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English paper.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?peipe?/, [?pei?.pe?]

Noun

paper m (plural papers)

  1. paper (written document that reports scientific or academic research)

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paker

English

Noun

paker (plural pakers)

  1. (obsolete) A vagrant, stroller

References

  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. Quoted in plural (pakers)

Anagrams

  • Parke, Pekar, Perak, Repka

Indonesian

Etymology

From Madurese [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?pak?r]
  • Hyphenation: pa?kêr

Adjective

paker

  1. (Madura) too bitter.
    Synonym: pahit

Further reading

  • “paker” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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