book vs paper

book

noun
  • Any source of instruction. 

  • A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 

  • A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement). 

  • A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. 

  • A major division of a long work. 

  • A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 

  • Records of the accounts of a business. 

  • A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant. 

  • Six tricks taken by one side. 

  • Four of a kind. 

  • The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps. 

  • The script of a musical or opera. 

  • A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry. 

  • The twenty-sixth Lenormand card. 

  • A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. 

  • The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame. 

  • A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book. 

  • A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 

verb
  • To record bets as bookmaker. 

  • To receive the highest grade in a class. 

  • To leave. 

  • To reserve (something) for future use. 

  • To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 

  • To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 

  • simple past tense of bake 

  • To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 

  • To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. 

  • To travel very fast. 

paper

noun
  • A university course. 

  • 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 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. 

  • A scholastic essay. 

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

  • Any financial assets other than specie. 

  • A paper packet containing a quantity of items. 

  • Wallpaper. 

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

  • 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. 

  • Wrapping paper. 

  • A set of examination questions to be answered at one session. 

  • Money. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper) 

  • Made of paper. 

  • Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper) 

  • Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention. 

verb
  • To apply paper to. 

  • To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers. 

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

  • To enfold in paper. 

  • To document; to memorialize. 

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

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

  • To sandpaper. 

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