Paper vs. Confetti

Papernoun

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.

Confettinoun

Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.

Papernoun

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

Confettinoun

(rare) Edible Italian sugar-coated almonds, especially those which are used as part of a traditional Italian wedding.

Papernoun

(uncountable) Wallpaper.

Confetti

Bonbons; sweetmeats; confections.

Papernoun

(uncountable) Wrapping paper.

Confetti

small bits or streamers of brightly colored paper, thrown in celebration by carnival revelers, at weddings, etc.

Papernoun

(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.

Confettinoun

small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)

Papernoun

A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.

Confetti

Confetti are small pieces or streamers of paper, mylar, or metallic material which are usually thrown at celebrations, especially parades and weddings. The origins are from the Latin confectum, with confetti the plural of Italian confetto, small sweet.

Papernoun

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).

Papernoun

A scholastic essay.

Papernoun

(slang) Money.

Papernoun

(New Zealand) A university course.

Papernoun

A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

‘a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.’;

Papernoun

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

‘cantharides paper’;

Papernoun

A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.

Paperadjective

Made of paper.

‘paper bag;’; ‘paper plane’;

Paperadjective

Insubstantial from the weakness of common paper

‘paper tiger;’; ‘paper gangster’;

Paperadjective

Planned from plans being drawn up on paper

‘paper rocket;’; ‘paper engine’;

Paperverb

(transitive) To apply paper to.

‘to paper the hallway walls’;

Paperverb

(transitive) To document; to memorialize.

‘After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.’;

Paperverb

(transitive) To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.

‘As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.’;

Paperverb

(transitive) To submit papers to (a law court, etc.).

Paperverb

(transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.

Papernoun

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.

Papernoun

A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

Papernoun

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.’;

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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.

Paperadjective

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

Paperadjective

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

Paperverb

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

Paperverb

To fold or inclose in paper.

Paperverb

To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

an essay (especially one written as an assignment);

‘he got an A on his composition’;

Papernoun

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

‘he read his newspaper at breakfast’;

Papernoun

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

‘he has written many scientific papers’;

Papernoun

medium for written communication;

‘the notion of an office running without paper is absurd’;

Papernoun

a business firm that publishes newspapers;

‘Murdoch owns many newspapers’;

Papernoun

a newspaper as a physical object;

‘when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper’;

Paperverb

cover with paper;

‘paper the box’;

Paperverb

cover with wallpaper

Paperadjective

made of paper;

‘they wore paper hats at the party’;

Papernoun

material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing, drawing, or printing on, or as wrapping material

‘toffee papers’; ‘a paper napkin’; ‘a sheet of paper’;

Papernoun

wallpaper

‘the walls were damp—paper hung away in long strips’;

Papernoun

short for cigarette paper

Papernoun

a sheet of paper with something written or printed on it

‘he riffled through the papers on his desk’;

Papernoun

a newspaper

‘the story made the front page of the local paper’;

Papernoun

personal documents

‘the personal papers of major political figures’;

Papernoun

documents attesting identity; credentials

‘two men stopped us and asked us for our papers’;

Papernoun

a government report or policy document

‘a recently leaked cabinet paper’;

Papernoun

denoting something that is officially documented but has no real existence

‘a paper profit’;

Papernoun

a set of examination questions to be answered at one session

‘we had to sit a three-hour paper’;

Papernoun

the written answers to examination questions

‘you need to test your students, mark their papers, and place them in the right class’;

Papernoun

an essay or dissertation, especially one read at an academic lecture or seminar or published in an academic journal

‘he published a highly original paper on pattern formation’;

Papernoun

free passes of admission to a theatre or other entertainment.

Paperverb

apply wallpaper to (a wall or room)

‘the walls were papered in a Regency stripe’;

Paperverb

cover a hole or blemish with wallpaper

‘interior panels can be of fairly basic wood that will be papered over’;

Paperverb

disguise an awkward problem instead of resolving it

‘the unions tried to paper over their differences’;

Paperverb

fill (a theatre) by giving out free tickets

‘surely the theatre could at least have papered the house if the box office was looking so poor’;

Paper

Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying. Although paper was originally made in single sheets by hand, almost all is now made on large machines—some making reels 10 metres wide, running at 2,000 metres per minute and up to 600,000 tonnes a year.