| paper | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. paper | a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses. |
| ~ card | one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.; "he collected cards and traded them with the other boys" |
| ~ confetti | small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding). |
| ~ piece of paper, sheet of paper, sheet | paper used for writing or printing. |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| ~ art paper | a high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay). |
| ~ blotter, blotting paper | absorbent paper used to dry ink. |
| ~ blueprint paper | sensitized paper used to make blueprints. |
| ~ cellulose | a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers. |
| ~ carbon paper, carbon | a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper. |
| ~ cardboard, composition board | a stiff moderately thick paper. |
| ~ cartridge paper | paper for making cartridge cases. |
| ~ chad | a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape. |
| ~ computer paper | paper folded to permit continuous printing controlled by a computer. |
| ~ construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts. |
| ~ crepe, crepe paper | paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations. |
| ~ drawing paper | paper that is specially prepared for use in drafting. |
| ~ filter paper | a porous unsized paper used for filtering. |
| ~ flypaper | paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies. |
| ~ graph paper | paper that has lines to permit drawing graphs. |
| ~ greaseproof paper | paper that is impermeable to oil or grease; used in cooking. |
| ~ linen paper, linen | a high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish. |
| ~ litmus paper | unsized paper treated with litmus for use as an acid-base indicator. |
| ~ manifold paper, manifold | a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies.; "an original and two manifolds" |
| ~ manila, manila paper, manilla, manilla paper | a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp. |
| ~ music paper, score paper | paper with lines appropriate for writing music. |
| ~ newsprint, newspaper | cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers.; "they used bales of newspaper every day" |
| ~ oilpaper | paper that has been made translucent and waterproof by soaking in oil. |
| ~ india paper | a thin tough opaque paper used in fine books. |
| ~ pad, pad of paper, tablet | a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge. |
| ~ paper tape | a long narrow strip of paper. |
| ~ paper toweling | absorbent paper used as toweling. |
| ~ paper-mache, papier-mache | a substance made from paper pulp that can be molded when wet and painted when dry. |
| ~ papyrus | paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans. |
| ~ parchment | a superior paper resembling sheepskin. |
| ~ rice paper | a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree. |
| ~ roofing paper, tar paper | a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing. |
| ~ ticker tape | a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written. |
| ~ tissue paper, tissue | a soft thin (usually translucent) paper. |
| ~ tracing paper | a semitransparent paper that is used for tracing drawings. |
| ~ transfer paper | a paper that is coated with a preparation for transferring a design to another surface. |
| ~ wallpaper | a decorative paper for the walls of rooms. |
| ~ waste paper | paper discarded after use. |
| ~ wax paper | paper that has been waterproofed by treatment with wax or paraffin. |
| ~ wrapping paper | a tough paper used for wrapping. |
| ~ writing paper | paper material made into thin sheets that are sized to take ink; used for writing correspondence and manuscripts. |
| n. (communication) | 2. composition, paper, report, theme | an essay (especially one written as an assignment).; "he got an A on his composition" |
| ~ essay | an analytic or interpretive literary composition. |
| ~ term paper | a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term. |
| n. (communication) | 3. newspaper, paper | a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements.; "he read his newspaper at breakfast" |
| ~ public press, press | the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines. |
| ~ rotogravure | printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press. |
| ~ daily | a newspaper that is published every day. |
| ~ gazette | a newspaper or official journal. |
| ~ school newspaper, school paper | a newspaper written and published by students in a school. |
| ~ tabloid, rag, sheet | newspaper with half-size pages. |
| ~ editorial, newspaper column, column | an article giving opinions or perspectives. |
| ~ feature article, feature | a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine.; "they ran a feature on retirement planning" |
| ~ news article, news story, newspaper article | an article reporting news. |
| ~ headline, newspaper headline | the heading or caption of a newspaper article. |
| ~ sports section | the section of a newspaper that reports on sports. |
| ~ news item | an item in a newspaper. |
| ~ cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies, strip | a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book. |
| n. (communication) | 4. paper | a medium for written communication.; "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd" |
| ~ medium | a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information. |
| ~ page | one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains. |
| n. (communication) | 5. paper | a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses.; "he has written many scientific papers" |
| ~ article | nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication. |
| n. (group) | 6. newspaper, newspaper publisher, paper | a business firm that publishes newspapers.; "Murdoch owns many newspapers" |
| ~ publisher, publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house | a firm in the publishing business. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. newspaper, paper | the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher.; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper" |
| ~ product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| v. (contact) | 8. paper | cover with paper.; "paper the box" |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
| v. (contact) | 9. paper, wallpaper | cover with wallpaper. |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
| role | | |
| n. (act) | 1. function, office, part, role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role" |
| ~ duty | work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.; "the duties of the job" |
| ~ capacity | a specified function.; "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary" |
| ~ hat | an informal term for a person's role.; "he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly" |
| ~ portfolio | the role of the head of a government department.; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs" |
| ~ lieu, stead, place, position | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another.; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" |
| ~ second fiddle | a secondary role or function.; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. character, part, persona, role, theatrical role | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play.; "she played the part of Desdemona" |
| ~ personation, portrayal, characterization, enactment | acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture. |
| ~ bit part, minor role | a small role. |
| ~ heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play. |
| ~ hero | the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem. |
| ~ ingenue | the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play. |
| ~ name part, title role | the role of the character after whom the play is named. |
| ~ heroine | the main good female character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ baddie, villain | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. function, purpose, role, use | what something is used for.; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?" |
| ~ usefulness, utility | the quality of being of practical use. |
| ~ raison d'etre | the purpose that justifies a thing's existence. |
| n. (act) | 4. role | normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting.; "what is your role on the team?" |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ gender role | the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness.; "your gender role is the public expression of your gender identity" |
| ~ position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player.; "what position does he play?" |
| sheet | | |
| n. (object) | 1. sheet | any broad thin expanse or surface.; "a sheet of ice" |
| ~ expanse | a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky. |
| n. (communication) | 2. piece of paper, sheet, sheet of paper | paper used for writing or printing. |
| ~ slip of paper, slip | a small sheet of paper.; "a receipt slip" |
| ~ signature | a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book. |
| ~ folio, leaf | a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book). |
| ~ tear sheet | a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication. |
| ~ foolscap | a size of paper used especially in Britain. |
| ~ style sheet | a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication. |
| ~ worksheet | a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements. |
| ~ revenue stamp, stamp | a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid. |
| ~ paper | a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. bed sheet, sheet | bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs. |
| ~ bed linen | linen or cotton articles for a bed (as sheets and pillowcases). |
| ~ contour sheet, fitted sheet | a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress. |
| n. (shape) | 4. plane, sheet | (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape.; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane" |
| ~ shape, form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ cartesian plane | a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates. |
| ~ facet plane | the plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube). |
| ~ midline, midplane | the median plane of the body (or some part of the body). |
| ~ orbital plane | (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting. |
| ~ picture plane | the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work. |
| ~ tangent plane | the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface. |
| n. (communication) | 5. rag, sheet, tabloid | newspaper with half-size pages. |
| ~ newspaper, paper | a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements.; "he read his newspaper at breakfast" |
| n. (artifact) | 6. flat solid, sheet | a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width. |
| ~ artefact, artifact | a man-made object taken as a whole. |
| ~ blackboard, chalkboard | sheet of slate; for writing with chalk. |
| ~ blank | a piece of material ready to be made into something. |
| ~ board | a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose.; "he nailed boards across the windows" |
| ~ plastic film, film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things. |
| ~ laminate | a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers. |
| ~ membrane | a thin pliable sheet of material. |
| ~ panel | sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something. |
| ~ plate | a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic. |
| ~ photographic plate, plate | a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded. |
| ~ plate glass, sheet glass | glass formed into large thin sheets. |
| ~ sheet metal | sheet of metal formed into a thin plate. |
| ~ stencil | a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. mainsheet, sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet | (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind. |
| ~ sailing, seafaring, navigation | the work of a sailor. |
| ~ futtock shroud | shroud that is part of a ship's rigging. |
| ~ line | something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.; "a washing line" |
| ~ ship | a vessel that carries passengers or freight. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. canvas, canvass, sail, sheet | a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel. |
| ~ balloon sail | any light loose sail. |
| ~ crossjack, mizzen course | the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast. |
| ~ fore-and-aft sail | any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction. |
| ~ foresail | the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel. |
| ~ reef | one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind. |
| ~ headsail | any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel. |
| ~ mainsail | the lowermost sail on the mainmast. |
| ~ main-topsail | a topsail set on the mainmast. |
| ~ piece of cloth, piece of material | a separate part consisting of fabric. |
| ~ press of canvas, press of sail | the greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely. |
| ~ royal | a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast. |
| ~ sailing ship, sailing vessel | a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts. |
| ~ save-all | a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail. |
| ~ skysail | the sail above the royal on a square-rigger. |
| ~ square sail | a four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast. |
| ~ topgallant, topgallant sail | a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast. |
| ~ topsail | a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast. |
| v. (weather) | 9. sheet | come down as if in sheets.; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" |
| ~ rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, pelt, stream, pour | rain heavily.; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" |
| v. (contact) | 10. sheet | cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping.; "sheet the body" |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
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