paper — OAT · Shobdo

paper

noun

1 a sheet of paper:

writing paper, notepaper.

2 the story made the front page of the local paper:

newspaper;

informal print, rag.

3 the paper was peeling off the walls:

wallpaper, wallcovering;

British woodchip;

trademark Anaglypta, Lincrusta.

4 toffee papers:

wrapper, wrapping.

5 we had to sit a three-hour paper:

exam, examination, test.

6 he published a paper which proved to be a landmark in the evolution of macroeconomic ideas:

essay, article, composition, monograph, thesis, work, dissertation, treatise, study, report, analysis, tract, critique, exegesis, review, disquisition, discourse, piece of writing;

North American theme.

7 (papers) the personal papers of major political figures:

documents, certificates, forms, letters, files, deeds, records, dossiers, diaries, archives, legal papers, paperwork, documentation;

informal treeware;

rare muniments, instruments, assignments.

8 (papers) two men stopped us and asked us for our papers:

identification papers, identification documents, identity card, ID, credentials, bona fides.

□ on paper

1 he's putting a few thoughts down on paper:

in writing, written down, in black and white, in print, on record;

recorded, documented, printed.

2 the combatants were, on paper at least, evenly matched:

in theory, theoretically, hypothetically, in the abstract, supposedly.

verb

we papered the walls and put up curtains to match:

wallpaper, hang wallpaper on, line;

decorate.

□ paper over something

the unions tried to paper over their differences:

cover up, hide, conceal, disguise, camouflage, gloss over, whitewash, varnish over, draw a veil over.