Document vs. Paper

Document and Paper Definitions
Document
A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
Paper
A material made of cellulose pulp, derived mainly from wood, rags, and certain grasses, processed into flexible sheets or rolls by deposit from an aqueous suspension, and used chiefly for writing, printing, drawing, wrapping, and covering walls.
Document
Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
Paper
A single sheet of this material.
Document
A writing that contains information.
Paper
A formal written composition intended to be published, presented, or read aloud; a scholarly essay or treatise.
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Document
(Computers) A piece of work created with an application, as with a word processor.
Paper
A piece of written work for school; a report or theme.
Document
(Computers) A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
Paper
Often papers An official document, especially one establishing the identity of the bearer.
Document
Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
Paper
Papers A collection of letters, diaries, and other writings, especially by one person
The Madison papers.
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Document
To furnish with a document or documents.
Paper
Short-term debt instruments, especially commercial paper.
Document
To methodically record the details of
"I had thought long and logically about ... how to document the patterns of dolphin behavior" (Diana Reiss).
Paper
A newspaper.
Document
To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
Paper
Wallpaper.
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Document
To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.
Paper
A wrapper made of paper, often with its contents
A paper of pins.
Document
An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
Paper
A free pass to a theater.
Document
Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
Paper
The audience admitted with free passes.
Document
(computing) A file that contains text.
Paper
To cover, wrap, or line with paper.
Document
(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Paper
To cover with wallpaper.
Document
(obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
Paper
To supply with paper.
Document
To record in documents.
He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
Paper
(Slang) To issue free passes for (a theater, for example).
Document
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Paper
To construct (something) in haste and with little forethought
Papered together a new coalition of political convenience.
Document
That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time.
Paper
Made of paper.
Document
An example for instruction or warning.
They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others.
Paper
Resembling paper, as in thinness or flimsiness.
Document
An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; - in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic.
Paper
Of or relating to clerical work
Paper duties.
Document
To teach; to school.
I am finely documented by my own daughter.
Paper
Existing only in printed or written form
Paper profits.
A paper corporation.
Document
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Paper
Planned but not realized; theoretical.
Document
Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
Paper
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.
Document
Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
Paper
A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
Document
A written account of ownership or obligation
Paper
(uncountable) Wallpaper.
Document
(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters
Paper
(uncountable) Wrapping paper.
Document
Record in detail;
The parents documented every step of their child's development
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.
Document
Support or supply with references;
Can you document your claims?
Paper
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
Paper
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).
Paper
A scholastic essay.
Paper
(Britain) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
Paper
(slang) Money.
Paper
Any financial assets other than specie.
Paper
(New Zealand) A university course. en
Paper
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
A paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
Paper
A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
Cantharides paper
Paper
A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
Paper
(dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
Paper
The people admitted by free passes.
Paper
Made of paper.
Paper bag; paper plane
Paper
Insubstantial from the weakness of common paper
Paper tiger; paper gangster
Paper
Planned from plans being drawn up on paper
Paper rocket; paper engine
Paper
Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
A paper baron; a paper lord
Paper
(transitive) To apply paper to.
To paper the hallway walls
Paper
(transitive) To document; to memorialize.
After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
Paper
(transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
Paper
(transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
Paper
(transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
Paper
(transitive) To sandpaper.
Paper
(transitive) To enfold in paper.
Paper
To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
Paper
A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
Paper
A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.
Paper
A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.
They brought a paper to me to be signed.
Paper
A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.
Paper
Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.
Paper
Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.
Paper
A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
Paper
A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.
Paper
Documents establishing a person's identity, or status, or attesting to some right, such as the right to drive a vehicle; as, the border guard asked for his papers.
Paper
Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper.
Paper
Existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army; a paper tiger.
Paper
To cover or line with paper, especially with wallpaper; to furnish with paper hangings; to wallpaper; as, to paper a room or a house.
Paper
To fold or inclose in paper.
Paper
To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.
Paper
A material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
Paper
An essay (especially one written as an assignment);
He got an A on his composition
Paper
A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements;
He read his newspaper at breakfast
Paper
A scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses;
He has written many scientific papers
Paper
Medium for written communication;
The notion of an office running without paper is absurd
Paper
A business firm that publishes newspapers;
Murdoch owns many newspapers
Paper
A newspaper as a physical object;
When it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper
Paper
Cover with paper;
Paper the box
Paper
Cover with wallpaper
Paper
Made of paper;
They wore paper hats at the party