Meaning

• A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

• A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

• Wallpaper.

• Wrapping paper.

• (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

• A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.

• A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).

• A scholastic essay.

• A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.

• Money.

• A university course.

• 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.

• Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.

• (by extension) The people admitted by free passes.

Meaning

• To apply paper to.

  "to paper the hallway walls"

• To document; to memorialize.

  "After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up."

• To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.

  "As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house."

• To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).

• To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.

• To sandpaper.

• To enfold in paper.

• To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

Meaning

• Made of paper.

  "paper bag; paper plane"

• Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)

  "paper tiger; paper gangster"

• Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)

  "paper rocket; paper engine"

• Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.

  "a paper baron; a paper lord"