paper

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noun

1 material

ADJECTIVE

▪ thick, thin

▪ plain

▪ lined

▪ graph

▪ A3, A4, etc. (not in the US)

▪ executive, legal, letter (all AmE)

▪ blank

▪

I stared at the blank paper, not knowing how to start the letter.

▪ printed

▪

There is a special rate for printed paper.

▪ loose

▪

pieces of loose paper

▪ brown, coloured/colored

▪

a brown paper package of books

▪ Manila

▪ acid-free

▪ kraft (AmE)

▪ butcher (AmE)

▪ parchment

▪ greaseproof (BrE), wax, waxed

▪ glossy, shiny

▪ scrap, scratch (AmE), waste

▪

I made some notes on a piece of scrap paper.

▪ recycled

▪ handmade

▪ decorative

▪ computer

▪ notebook

▪ drawing, writing

▪ blotting

▪ tracing

▪ wrapping

▪ crêpe

▪ tissue

▪ photographic

▪ filter

▪ kitchen (BrE) (paper towel in AmE)

▪ toilet

▪ cigarette (esp. BrE), rolling (esp. AmE)

▪

a packet of cigarette papers (BrE)

▪

a pack of rolling papers (AmE)

▪ litmus

▪ crumpled, folded

… OF PAPER

▪ bit (esp. BrE), piece, scrap, sheet, slip, strip

▪

I scribbled down his number on a scrap of paper.

▪ roll

▪

a roll of toilet paper

▪ side

▪

The essay filled seven sides of paper.

VERB + PAPER

▪ fold

▪

Fold the paper in half.

▪ unfold

▪ rip, shred, tear

▪ crumple, crumple up, screw up (esp. BrE)

▪

He crumpled the paper into a ball.

▪

I screwed up the paper and threw it away.

▪ recycle

PAPER + VERB

▪ be scattered

▪

Scraps of wrapping paper were scattered around.

▪ flutter

▪

A piece of paper fluttered to the floor.

PAPER + NOUN

▪ bag, cup, plate, sack

▪ napkin, towel

▪ aeroplane (BrE), airplane (AmE), ball, doll, hat, lantern

▪ currency, money

▪ document, map, receipt, ticket

▪

the advantages of paper maps over online maps

▪ copy, version

▪

He kept a paper copy of his account information.

▪ edition

▪ cut-out

▪ mill

▪ pulp

▪ industry

▪ shredder

PREPOSITION

▪ on paper

▪

I've had nothing on paper (= in writing) to say that I've been accepted.

PHRASES

▪ put pen to paper

▪

I've thought about what I'm going to write, but I haven't yet put pen to paper.

▪ a waste of paper

▪

This report is a waste of paper.

2 newspaper

ADJECTIVE

▪ daily, evening (esp. BrE), morning, Sunday, weekly

▪ today's, yesterday's

▪ independent, left-wing (esp. BrE), right-wing (esp. BrE)

▪ hometown (esp. AmE), local, national

▪ school (esp. AmE)

▪ broadsheet (esp. BrE), quality (BrE)

▪ tabloid (esp. BrE)

… OF PAPER

▪ copy

▪

Do you have a copy of yesterday's paper?

▪ edition

▪

today's edition of the paper

VERB + PAPER

▪ buy, get, take (esp. BrE)

▪

Do you take a daily paper?

▪ flick through (esp. BrE), flip through (esp. AmE), read

▪

What paper do you usually read?

▪ print, produce, publish

▪ edit, write for, write in

▪ appear in

▪ get into

▪

The story got into the papers.

PAPER + VERB

▪ come out

▪

The paper comes out every Saturday.

▪ report sth

▪

The paper reported that several people had seen UFOs.

PAPER + NOUN

▪ shop (BrE)

▪ boy, girl

▪ round (BrE), route (AmE)

▪

Many kids do a paper round.

▪

Many kids have paper routes.

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the paper

▪

I read about his arrest in the paper.

▪

I read about his arrest in the papers. (esp. BrE)

▪ on a/the paper

▪

She got a job on the local paper.

3 (usually papers) official document

ADJECTIVE

▪ necessary

▪ official

▪ ID, identification, identity

▪ personal, private

▪ court, legal

▪ adoption, divorce

▪ ballot

… OF PAPERS

▪ pile, sheaf

VERB + PAPER

▪ sign

▪

Teresa signed the adoption papers.

▪ show

▪

Be prepared to show your identity papers at the border.

▪ shuffle

▪

He shuffled the papers on his desk.

▪ file

▪

legal papers filed in London

4 (BrE) exam

ADJECTIVE

▪ exam, examination, question, test (BrE, AmE)

▪ written

▪

I did well on the oral but not on the written paper.

▪ English, history, etc.

VERB + PAPER

▪ do, sit, take

▪ set

▪

The exam papers are set by experienced teachers.

▪ mark

▪ turn over

▪

You may now turn over your papers.

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the paper

▪

the questions in the physics paper

▪ on a/the paper

▪

You must not write on the question paper.

5 piece of writing

ADJECTIVE

▪ draft (esp. BrE)

▪ consultation (esp. BrE), discussion, position, working

▪ research, scientific, technical

▪ scholarly

▪ term (AmE)

▪

I wrote a term paper on eating disorders.

▪ seminal

▪ peer-reviewed

▪ published, unpublished

▪ influential

VERB + PAPER

▪ deliver, give, present, read, submit

▪ author, draft, prepare, produce, write

▪ co-author

▪ issue, publish, release

▪ cite

PAPER + VERB

▪ consider sth, deal with sth, examine sth, explore sth, focus on sth, look at sth

▪

The paper looks at the future of university education.

▪ outline sth

▪ argue sth, propose sth

▪ demonstrate sth

▪ conclude sth

▪ describe sth, outline sth, present sth

▪ report sth

▪

This paper reports the results of a two-year field experiment.

▪ be called sth, be entitled sth, be titled sth (esp. AmE)

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the paper

▪

Freud first mentioned this concept in his paper ‘On Narcissism’.

▪ paper on

▪

a paper on the development of the novel

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verb

Paper is used with these nouns as the object: ↑wall