paper
- noun
- /ˈpeɪpər/
- And you, you wrote a paper on roasting ethics.
- write a paper
- research paper
- publish a paper
If I think you should be writing this paper to your peers.
- If I think you should be writing this paper to your peers.
- They faxed the paper, the essay to me.
- I read a while ago a very elegant paper from Walter Cannon.
- Can you explain this paper and the title?
- He was doing great, working hard on his papers, had terrific things to say.
- It's much harder than publishing multiple papers in top medical journals.
- And the First off author of the paper is Ofer Pearl.
Examples
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The data used in this paper were collected during the spring 2009 semester.
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So actually I wrote a paper on this subject.
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Why are you writing a paper just for fun?
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Can you explain this paper and the title?
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It's from an old paper by that student.
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Sounds like a high school term paper.
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In 2009, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the white paper "Living and Learning with New Media."
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For the purposes of this paper, these respondents are referred to as 'scholars'.
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Through a review of theoretical frameworks, this paper gives perspectives regarding factors related to CLD students' academic outcomes.
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The professor praised my paper on climate change and its effects on global ecosystems.
Synonyms
A handwritten book or an author's original text sent to publishers
A piece of music or writing made by someone
A short school essay on a particular topic
A long essay a student writes at the end of a course to show what they learned
A piece of work where you write about a topic for school
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
A document that explains a group or person's view and gives reasons about an issue
- Offensive
An office worker who spends most of their time doing forms and paperwork
A thin, delicate sheet made from the inside of a plant used for writing, painting, or wrapping
- Archaic
A thin sheet coated with dark wax that makes a copy when placed between papers
- Specialized
Long paper with holes along the sides used in old printers like dot-matrix
- Specialized
Thin paper with tiny holes that lets liquid pass but keeps solid bits
- Specialized
Paper covered with a chemical that changes when it sees light, used to make photos
- Archaic
Paper used to make blueprints that show white lines on a blue background
Paper that does not soak up oil and is used to line baking trays and wrap food
A climbing plant with hard stems and bright thin parts that look like paper and decorate gardens
- UK
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
- Specialized
A fall in an investment's value that is only on paper because you have not sold it
Paper that soaks up water, made in sheets or rolls for drying hands and cleaning spills
Paper with a special coating that lets you move a design onto another surface often using heat
How Academic
Surface Forms
Etymology
A paper in school or research is simply a piece of paper with an essay or study written on it, and the name comes from that idea of a written sheet. So a 'paper' is the written work you hand in or publish.