paper.

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!

The paper mill on the south side of town makes various grades of paper and employs hundreds of people.

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

Read all about it in this morning's paper!

In those days, the Reporter Dispatch was the paper of record around here, and everyone who was anyone took the paper [was a subscriber].

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.

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.

The kids could hardly wait to tear the paper off their Christmas gifts.

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; 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.

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.

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

Money.

Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.

A university course.

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

A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

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

A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.

Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.

The people admitted by free passes.

Made of paper.

Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper).

Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper).

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

a paper lord

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.

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.

To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.