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How to pronounce “paper”
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Pronunciation guide for paper
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of paper with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Between The Folds
But, it's a piece of paper, and, of course, it can't look like an elephant.
- Definition summary
- 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.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce paper
Between The Folds
But, it's a piece of paper, and, of course, it can't look like an elephant.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “paper”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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.
- Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wallpaper.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
- (rock paper scissors) 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.
- 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).
- (British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- (slang) Money.
- (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
- (New Zealand) A university course. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
- 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.
- (dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
- (dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
- [Adjective]
- 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.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To apply paper to.
- (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
- (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
- (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
- (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
- (transitive) To sandpaper.
- (transitive) To enfold in paper.
- To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
- (Northeastern US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.
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