paper

1. paper (noun) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

Example: Draw on the paper! Not on the walls!

2. paper (noun) — sense 2

Definition: 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.

3. paper (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A written document, generally shorter than a book; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.

Example: Near-synonym: report

4. paper (adj) — sense 4

Definition: Made of paper.

Example: 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.

5. paper (adj) — sense 5

Definition: Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper).

Example: paper gangster

6. paper (adj) — sense 6

Definition: Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper).

Example: paper engine, rocket

7. paper (verb) — sense 7

Definition: To apply paper to.

Example: to paper the hallway walls

8. paper (verb) — sense 8

Definition: To document; to memorialize.

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

9. paper (verb) — sense 9

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

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