Paper vs. Sheet — What's the Difference?

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 Although paper was originally made in single sheets by hand, almost all is now made on large machines—some making reels 10 metres wide, running at 2,000 metres per minute and up to 600,000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.

A thin rectangular piece of fabric for a bed, often used in a pair with one sheet below and one sheet above a person.

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

A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.

A sheet of paper with something written or printed on it

A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.

A set of examination questions to be answered at one session

A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse

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

A moving expanse

Free passes of admission to a theatre or other entertainment.

A newspaper, especially a tabloid.

Apply wallpaper to (a wall or room)

(Computers) A single page of rows and columns constituting a subunit of a spreadsheet.

Fill (a theatre) by giving out free tickets

(Geology) A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock.

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.

A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated.

A single sheet of this material.

(Mathematics) A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.

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

A rope or chain attached to one or both of the lower corners of a sail, serving to move or extend it.

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

Sheets The spaces at either end of an open boat in front of and behind the seats.

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

To cover with, wrap in, or provide with a sheet.

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

To make into sheets.

Short-term debt instruments, especially commercial paper.

To flow or fall in a sheet

A newspaper.

To extend in a certain direction. Used of the sheets of a sail.

Wallpaper.

Being in the form of a sheet

A wrapper made of paper, often with its contents

A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

A free pass to a theater.

A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.

The audience admitted with free passes.

A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.

To cover, wrap, or line with paper.

A thin, flat layer of solid material.

To cover with wallpaper.

A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.

To supply with paper.

(nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

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

A sail.

To construct (something) in haste and with little forethought

(curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.

Made of paper.

(nonstandard) A layer of veneer.

Resembling paper, as in thinness or flimsiness.

(figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.

Of or relating to clerical work

(geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

Existing only in printed or written form

(nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.

Planned but not realized; theoretical.

A distinct level or stage within a game.

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.

(transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.

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

(transitive) To form into sheets.

(uncountable) Wallpaper.

(intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.

(uncountable) Wrapping paper.

(nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

(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.

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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

A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.

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 rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; - usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.

A scholastic essay.

A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

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

To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

(slang) Money.

To expand, as a sheet.

Any financial assets other than specie.

Any broad thin expanse or surface;

(New Zealand) A university course. en

Used for writing or printing

A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

Bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs

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

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape;

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

Newspaper with half-size pages

(dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.

A flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width

The people admitted by free passes.

(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

Made of paper.

A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

Insubstantial from the weakness of common paper

Come down as if in sheets;

Planned from plans being drawn up on paper

Cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping;

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;