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A sheet material typically 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.
"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.[…]."
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
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.
2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:
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.
1812, William Major, Theory of Money and Exchanges, page XV:
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.
1859, The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, page 244:
[…] three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges […]
(New Zealand) A university course. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
cantharides paper
A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
(dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
(dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
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.
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.
2020, Kelly Kessler, Broadway in the Box, page 198:
Later, seat-filling or “papering” services cropped up, with organizations like Audience Extras, Play-by-Play, […]
(transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
2006, Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006:
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.
2007, Thomas M. Hanna, The Employer's Legal Advisor: Handling Problem Employees Effectively ...:
[…] 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) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
Coromines, Joan (1980–1991) “paper”, in Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana, Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes.
Old Catalan
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latinpapyrus, adapted to the Catalan suffix -er (< Latin -ārius). First attested in 1249, soon after the Catalans became the first Europeans to control a paper mill by capturing the one in Xàtiva from the Moors.
Noun
paperm
paper(sheet material typically used for writing on or printing)
paper(written document that reports scientific or academic research)
2020 July 23, Juan Felipe Vélez, “Colombia discute la legalización y comercialización de la cocaína”, in PanAm Post:
Hay varios papers recientes sobre el efecto de la regularización del acceso a opioides en Estados Unidos [...]
There are some recent papers on the effect of the regularization of access to opioids in the United States
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.