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Definition of paper : 1. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.
2. A paper containing ( usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
3. A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.
4. A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.
5. A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.
6. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
7. Cloth or covered with powdered carborundum.
8. Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See hangings, below.
9. Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.
10. Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.
11. To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.
12. To fold or inclose in paper.
13. To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

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hang (part of speech: verb)

paste up, cover, plaster

unsubstantial (part of speech: adjective)

flimsy, thin

paper (part of speech: noun)

note paper, wrapping paper, roofing paper, papier-mache, vellum, crepe, blotting paper, parchment, foolscap, bond, rice paper, cardboard, manila, carbon paper, tissue, wall paper, wax paper, cellophane, tarpaper, onionskin, newsprint

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