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Papers and Document Definitions

Papers

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

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.

Papers

A single sheet of this material.

Document

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

Papers

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

Document

A writing that contains information.
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Papers

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

Document

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

Papers

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

Document

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

Papers

Papers A collection of letters, diaries, and other writings, especially by one person
The Madison papers.

Document

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

Short-term debt instruments, especially commercial paper.

Document

To furnish with a document or documents.

Papers

A newspaper.

Document

To methodically record the details of
"I had thought long and logically about ... how to document the patterns of dolphin behavior" (Diana Reiss).

Papers

Wallpaper.

Document

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

A wrapper made of paper, often with its contents
A paper of pins.

Document

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

Papers

A free pass to a theater.

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.

Papers

The audience admitted with free passes.

Document

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

Papers

To cover, wrap, or line with paper.

Document

(computing) A file that contains text.

Papers

To cover with wallpaper.

Document

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

Papers

To supply with paper.

Document

(obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.

Papers

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

Document

To record in documents.
He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.

Papers

To construct (something) in haste and with little forethought
Papered together a new coalition of political convenience.

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.

Papers

Made of paper.

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.

Papers

Resembling paper, as in thinness or flimsiness.

Document

An example for instruction or warning.
They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others.

Papers

Of or relating to clerical work
Paper duties.

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.

Papers

Existing only in printed or written form
Paper profits.
A paper corporation.

Document

To teach; to school.
I am finely documented by my own daughter.

Papers

Planned but not realized; theoretical.

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.

Papers

Plural of paper.

Document

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

Papers

Official documents or identification, as a passport.
He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.

Document

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

Papers

A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.

Document

A written account of ownership or obligation

Papers

(AU) cigarette papers

Document

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

Papers

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

Document

Record in detail;
The parents documented every step of their child's development

Document

Support or supply with references;
Can you document your claims?

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