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PIECE OF PAPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Paper used for writing or printing
Synonyms:
piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("piece of paper" is a kind of...):
paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piece of paper"):
slip; slip of paper (a small sheet of paper)
signature (a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book)
folio; leaf (a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book))
tear sheet (a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication)
foolscap (a size of paper used especially in Britain)
style sheet (a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication)
worksheet (a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements)
revenue stamp; stamp (a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid)
Context examples:
You must put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass box which you have described.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He called for a few moments, just to leave a piece of paper on the table containing, as he said, a charade, which a friend of his had addressed to a young lady, the object of his admiration, but which, from his manner, Emma was immediately convinced must be his own.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He was as good as his word, if that were all right which I had a secret misgiving was nearly all wrong—for I feared it was a waste of my mother's two half-crowns—though I had preserved the piece of paper they were wrapped in: which was a precious saving.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I swore to my wife that I would kill her if I found her in his company again, and I led her back with me, sobbing and trembling, and as white as a piece of paper.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once, I remember carrying my own bread (which I had brought from home in the morning) under my arm, wrapped in a piece of paper, like a book, and going to a famous alamode beef-house near Drury Lane, and ordering a small plate of that delicacy to eat with it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
