paper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Draw on the paper! Not on the walls!”

2. isim Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

   “Read all about it in this morning's paper!”

3. isim Ellipsis of wallpaper.

   “The paperhangers had just finished hanging the paper in the dining room when the interior decorator walked in and exclaimed that it was the wrong color.”

4. isim Ellipsis of wrapping paper.

   “In those days, you asked the butcher for a block of cheese, and he wrapped it up in paper for you.”

5. isim 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.
6. isim A written document, generally shorter than a book; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.

   “I can't go out tonight. I have a paper due tomorrow, and I need to finish it tonight.”

7. isim 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).

   “Their team published a paper in the leading journal of their field, and its widespread impact elevated the reputation of their university department.”

8. isim A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
9. isim Money.
10. isim Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.

    “That great, rich institution,[…]has three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges—suddenly turned up the other day[…].”

11. isim A university course.

    “She's taking four papers this semester: two in psychology and two in sociology.”

12. isim A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

    “a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.”

13. isim A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.

    “cantharides paper”

14. isim A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
15. isim Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
16. isim The people admitted by free passes.
17. sıfat Made of paper.

    “At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.”

18. sıfat Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)

    “paper gangster”

19. sıfat Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)

    “paper engine, rocket”

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

    “a paper lord”

21. fiil To apply paper to.

    “to paper the hallway walls”

22. fiil To document; to memorialize.

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

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

    “Later, seat-filling or “papering” services cropped up, with organizations like Audience Extras, Play-by-Play,[…]”

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

    “As powerhouse lawyers shuttled to Cuba to meet clients and papered the federal courts with habeas corpus petitions, Guantanamo's isolation and lack of publicity, once the military's most powerful psychological weapon, was eliminated.”

25. fiil To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
26. fiil To sandpaper.
27. fiil To enfold in paper.
28. fiil To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
29. fiil To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.