paper

«paper» in Mova's school dictionary: the thin material we write and draw on — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (paper, papers); verb (paper, papers, papered, papering — cover walls with paper)

meaning for a pupil

1) Paper is the thin material we write and draw on. Books and newspapers are made of paper. tree →

2) A paper is a newspaper. tree →

3) Papers are documents, like a passport. tree →

4) A paper is also a test or a piece of written school work. tree →

5) Paper (adjective) means made of paper: a paper plane. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: sheets of paper counted, shared or used; newspapers delivered; folding paper for fractions and symmetry. In school: «exam paper», «hand in your papers». In science: paper is made from wood pulp from trees and can be recycled. In everyday life: paper bags, the paper round (UK) or paper route (USA).

examples

• She has 20 sheets of paper. tree →
• Each student gets 3 pieces of paper. tree →
• He delivers 40 papers every day. tree →
• Cut the paper into 4 equal parts. tree →
• Fold the paper in half to find the line of symmetry. tree →
• Paper is made from trees. tree →
• Please recycle your scrap paper. tree →
• Dad reads the paper at breakfast. tree →
• We made paper planes at lunch. tree →
• "Master clerk," said a servant who entered with some papers. tree →

note

Usually counted in sheets or pieces. Sharing paper equally = divide. Trap: «paper» can mean newspaper, then each paper is one newspaper. As a material it is uncountable («some paper»); «a paper» is a newspaper or test. Folding in half twice makes 4 equal parts.

In the corpora

• Knowing this helps you understand why a family's week is planned round a piece of paper on the fridge.
• Councils have recycling rules about which bin takes plastic, paper, glass or food, and the rules differ from place to place.
• Every age had its gossip papers; the screens are new, the gossip is not.
• It was reported that more cases of invented court cases in legal papers happened later, in other countries too.
• Fabric scissors are kept only for cloth, because cutting paper or card makes the blades blunt.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «paper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.