(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Paper is a material that you write on or wrap things with. The pages of this book are made of ~.
He wrote his name down on a piece of ~ for me...
She sat at the table with pen and ~.
...a sheet of pretty wrapping ~.
...a ~ bag.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A ~ is a news~.
I’ll cook and you read the ~.
N-COUNT
3.
You can refer to news~s in general as the ~ or the ~s.
You can’t believe everything you read in the ~...
N-COUNT: the N
4.
Your ~s are sheets of ~ with writing or information on them, which you might keep in a safe place at home.
Her ~s included unpublished articles and correspondence.
N-PLURAL: usu with poss
5.
Your ~s are official documents, for example your passport or identity card, which prove who you are or which give you official permission to do something.
They have arrested four people who were trying to leave the country with forged ~s.
= identification
N-PLURAL: usu poss N
6.
A ~ is a long, formal piece of writing about an academic subject.
He just published a ~ in the journal Nature analyzing the fires.
N-COUNT
7.
A ~ is an essay written by a student. (mainly AM)
...the ten common errors that appear most frequently in student ~s.
N-COUNT
see also term ~
8.
A ~ is a part of a written examination in which you answer a number of questions in a particular period of time.
We sat each ~ in the Hall...
N-COUNT
9.
A ~ prepared by a government or a committee is a report on a question they have been considering or a set of proposals for changes in the law.
...a new government ~ on European policy.
N-COUNT
see also Green Paper , White Paper
10.
Paper agreements, qualifications, or profits are ones that are stated by official documents to exist, although they may not really be effective or useful.
We’re looking for people who have experience rather than ~ qualifications.
ADJ: ADJ n
11.
If you ~ a wall, you put wall~ on it.
We ~ed all four bedrooms...
The room was strange, the walls half ~ed, half painted.
VERB: V n, V-ed
12.
If you put your thoughts down on ~, you write them down.
It is important to get something down on ~...
PHRASE: PHR after v
13.
If something seems to be the case on ~, it seems to be the case from what you read or hear about it, but it may not really be the case.
On ~, their country is a multi-party democracy...
PHRASE
14.
If you say that a promise, an agreement, or a guarantee is not worth the ~ it’s written on, you mean that although it has been written down and seems to be official, it is in fact worthless because what has been promised will not be done.
PHRASE: Vs inflect disapproval