Document vs. Paper

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.

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.

Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.

A single sheet of this material.

A writing that contains information.

A formal written composition intended to be published, presented, or read aloud; a scholarly essay or treatise.

(Computers) A piece of work created with an application, as with a word processor.

A piece of written work for school; a report or theme.

(Computers) A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.

Often papers An official document, especially one establishing the identity of the bearer.

Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.

Papers A collection of letters, diaries, and other writings, especially by one person

To furnish with a document or documents.

Short-term debt instruments, especially commercial paper.

To methodically record the details of

A newspaper.

To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.

Wallpaper.

To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.

A wrapper made of paper, often with its contents

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.

A free pass to a theater.

Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.

The audience admitted with free passes.

(computing) A file that contains text.

To cover, wrap, or line with paper.

(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

To cover with wallpaper.

(obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.

To supply with paper.

To record in documents.

(Slang) To issue free passes for (a theater, for example).

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.

To construct (something) in haste and with little forethought

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

Made of paper.

An example for instruction or warning.

Resembling paper, as in thinness or flimsiness.

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.

Of or relating to clerical work

To teach; to school.

Existing only in printed or written form

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.

Planned but not realized; theoretical.

Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

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.

Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks

A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

A written account of ownership or obligation

(uncountable) Wallpaper.

(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters

(uncountable) Wrapping paper.

Record in detail;

(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.

Support or supply with references;

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 (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).

A scholastic essay.

(Britain) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.

(slang) Money.

Any financial assets other than specie.

(New Zealand) A university course. en

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.

The people admitted by free passes.

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.

(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.

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.

A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.

A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides 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.

Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper.

Existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army; a paper tiger.

To cover or line with paper, especially with wallpaper; to furnish with paper hangings; to wallpaper; as, to paper a room or a house.

To fold or inclose in paper.

To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

A material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

An essay (especially one written as an assignment);

A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements;

A scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses;

Medium for written communication;

A business firm that publishes newspapers;

A newspaper as a physical object;

Cover with paper;

Cover with wallpaper

Made of paper;