Definition of paper

"paper" in the noun sense

1. paper

a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

2. composition, paper, report, theme

an essay (especially one written as an assignment

"he got an A on his composition"

3. newspaper, paper

a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets contains news and articles and advertisements

"he read his newspaper at breakfast"

4. paper

a medium for written communication

"the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"

5. paper

a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses

"he has written many scientific papers"

6. newspaper, paper, newspaper publisher

a business firm that publishes newspapers

"Murdoch owns many newspapers"

7. newspaper, paper

the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

"when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper"

"paper" in the verb sense

1. paper

cover with paper

"paper the box"

2. wallpaper, paper

cover with wallpaper

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Quotations for paper

A white wall is the paper of a fool. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

White walls are fool's writing paper. [ Proverb ]

Spare the paper which is fated to perish. [ Adapted from Juvenal ]

Youth and white paper take any impression. [ Proverb ]

The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot. [ Proverb ]

In love matters, keep your pen from paper. [ Alfred de Musset ]

Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think. [ Prior ]

Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait.
Proclaim their glory, and augment the state;
Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry
Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. [ Young ]

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV. Sc. 2 ]

The most lasting monuments are doubtless the paper monuments. [ Proverb ]

Here are a few of the unpleasantest words that ever blotted paper! [ William Shakespeare ]

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

What is the end of fame? It is but to fill a certain portion of uncertain paper. [ Byron ]

Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper. [ Spurgeon ]

If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written. [ Kabir ]

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. [ J. C and A. W. Hare ]

The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. [ Carlyle ]

They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. [ Addison ]

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. [ Diderot ]

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness. [ Luther ]

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. [ Chesterfield ]

Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]

Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]

Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. Little old New York's good enough for us - that's what they sing. [ O. Henry, A Tempered Wind ]

Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes infinite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. [ Colton ]

I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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