| 1. | a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc. |
| 2. | a piece, sheet, or leaf of this. |
| 3. | something resembling this substance, as papyrus. |
| 4. | a written or printed document or the like. |
| 5. | stationery; writing paper. |
| 6. | a newspaper or journal. |
| 7. | an essay, article, or dissertation on a particular topic: a paper on early Mayan artifacts. |
| 8. | Often, papers. a document establishing or verifying identity, status, or the like: citizenship papers. |
| 9. | negotiable notes, bills, etc., as commercial paper or paper money: Only silver, please, no paper. |
| 10. | a promissory note. |
| 11. | papers,
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| 12. | wallpaper. |
| 13. | toilet paper. |
| 14. | a sheet or card of paper with pins or needles stuck through it in rows. |
| 15. | a set of questions for an examination, an individual set of written answers to them, or any written piece of schoolwork. |
| 16. | Slang. a free pass to an entertainment. |
| 17. | to cover with wallpaper or apply wallpaper to: They papered the bedroom last summer. |
| 18. | to line or cover with paper. |
| 19. | to distribute handbills, posters, etc., throughout: to paper a neighborhood with campaign literature. |
| 20. | to fold, enclose, or wrap in paper. |
| 21. | to supply with paper. |
| 22. | Informal. to deluge with documents, esp. those requiring one to comply with certain technical procedures, as a means of legal harassment: He papered the plaintiff to force a settlement. |
| 23. | Slang. to fill (a theater or the like) with spectators by giving away free tickets or passes. |
| 24. | Archaic.
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| 25. | to apply wallpaper to walls. |
| 26. | made of paper or paperlike material: a paper bag. |
| 27. | paperlike; thin, flimsy, or frail. |
| 28. | of, pertaining to, or noting routine clerical duties. |
| 29. | pertaining to or carried on by means of letters, articles, books, etc.: a paper war. |
| 30. | written or printed on paper. |
| 31. | existing in theory or principle only and not in reality: paper profits. |
| 32. | indicating the first event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. |
| 33. | Slang. including many patrons admitted on free passes, as an audience for a theatrical performance: It's a paper house tonight. |
| 34. | paper over, to patch up or attempt to conceal (a difference, disagreement, etc.) so as to preserve a friendship, present a unified opinion, etc.: to paper over a dispute. |
| 35. | on paper,
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The expression in the Authorized Version (Isa. 19:7), "the paper reeds by the brooks," is in the Revised Version more correctly "the meadows by the Nile." The words undoubtedly refer to a grassy place on the banks of the Nile fit for pasturage. In 2 John 1:12 the word is used in its proper sense. The material so referred to was manufactured from the papyrus, and hence its name. The papyrus (Heb. gome) was a kind of bulrush (q.v.). It is mentioned by Job (8:11) and Isaiah (35:7). It was used for many purposes. This plant (Papyrus Nilotica) is now unknown in Egypt; no trace of it can be found. The unaccountable disappearance of this plant from Egypt was foretold by Isaiah (19:6, 7) as a part of the divine judgment on that land. The most extensive papyrus growths now known are in the marshes at the northern end of the lake of Merom.
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In addition to the idiom beginning with paper, also see on paper; push paper; walking papers.