Paper vs Repaper - What's the difference?
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A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
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, title= A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
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(lb) Wallpaper.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
(lb) Wrapping paper.
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper'', ''term paper ), in particular one written for the Government.
A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, a workshop or a symposium).
A scholastic essay.
(lb) Money.
(lb) A university course.
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
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A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
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Made of paper.
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Insubstantial.
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To apply paper to.
To document; to memorialize.
To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
To replace old wallpaper with new wallpaper, usually on walls, either by first stripping the old wallpaper off, or papering over the top.
As verbs the difference between paper and repaper
is that paper is to apply paper to while repaper is to replace old wallpaper with new wallpaper, usually on walls, either by first stripping the old wallpaper off, or papering over the top.As a noun paper
is a sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.As a adjective paper
is made of paper.paper
English
(wikipedia paper)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
George Goodchild
Synonyms
* (medium used in writing) bookfellDerived terms
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(-)Verb
(en verb)- to paper the hallway walls
- After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
- As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.