paper
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈpeɪpər/
:
periódico
- She picked up the paper to check the local news this morning.
Then on top of the ad, in the same paper, there's another ad.
- Then on top of the ad, in the same paper, there's another ad.
- They want their picture in the paper holding that puppy.
- And at the time, there's a paper called Austin Chronicle.
- It might make your local paper the next day.
- The newspaper boy who says he'll bring you a paper and doesn't.
- And there was a big article in the in the paper horseplay, blah, blah, blah.
- Now this was written up in the Mesquite paper, that's the suburb of Dallas there.
- And then they said, you know how paper boys deliver the paper every day?
- And she found this, this ad in the paper to go be Kirsten Dunst's body double.
- So getting in the papers was the last thought on my head.
- And the fellow that wrote it in the paper who?
- And very gently, he hands me the paper and it's the Nation of Islam newspaper.
- So that was how Apple Daily was positioned as the people's paper in Hong Kong.
Examples
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Her face was in all the papers seven years ago.
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We didn't want your name in the papers any more than you did.
Fiction book (1990) -
And then they said, you know how paper boys deliver the paper every day?
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But this was a picture from that paper which scared the hell out of me.
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When I was a kid, I read about it in the paper and you killed him.
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Hey, the late paper just came in.
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I read about your family in the paper, and I just wanted to come by and say I'm real sorry.
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It might make your local paper the next day.
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Well, if it's in the papers, it must be true.
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Do you have yesterday's paper?
Synonyms
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1.1
People and organizations that gather and publish news
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1.0
A printed paper that has news, stories, and ads
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6.1
A cheap newspaper with flashy, low-quality stories
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3.6
A person or company that makes and gives out newspapers
A short printed sheet giving news to a group, like a club
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
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6.0
A document that explains a group or person's view and gives reasons about an issue
- Offensive
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6.5
An office worker who spends most of their time doing forms and paperwork
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3.9
A thin, delicate sheet made from the inside of a plant used for writing, painting, or wrapping
- Archaic
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2.7
A thin sheet coated with dark wax that makes a copy when placed between papers
- Specialized
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2.3
Long paper with holes along the sides used in old printers like dot-matrix
- Specialized
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3.4
Thin paper with tiny holes that lets liquid pass but keeps solid bits
- Specialized
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3.2
Paper covered with a chemical that changes when it sees light, used to make photos
- Archaic
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5.8
Paper used to make blueprints that show white lines on a blue background
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3.9
Paper that does not soak up oil and is used to line baking trays and wrap food
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4.4
A climbing plant with hard stems and bright thin parts that look like paper and decorate gardens
- UK
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2.7
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
- Specialized
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6.1
A fall in an investment's value that is only on paper because you have not sold it
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2.4
Paper that soaks up water, made in sheets or rolls for drying hands and cleaning spills
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3.7
Paper with a special coating that lets you move a design onto another surface often using heat
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word paper also means a newspaper because news and stories were printed on sheets of paper, so people began to call the printed sheet 'the paper'. That's why 'the paper' can mean the news you read or the company that makes it.