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     1. papier
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     1. n. 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.
     2. n. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
     3. n. Wallpaper.
     4. n. Wrapping paper.
     5. n. (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.
     6. n. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
     7. n. 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 i
     8. n. A scholastic essay.
     9. n. (slang) Money.
     10. n. (New Zealand) A university course.
     11. n. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
           a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
     12. n. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
           cantharides paper
     13. n. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
     14. adj. Made of paper.
           paper bag;  paper plane
     15. adj. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
           paper tiger;  paper gangster
     16. adj. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
           paper rocket;  paper engine
     17. v. To apply paper to.
           to paper the hallway walls
     18. v. To document; to memorialize.
           After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
     19. v. 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.
     20. v. To submit papers to (a law court, etc.).
Nederlands > Engels
papier
     1. n-n. paper (A material used for writing or printing on, made from cellulose pulp rolled into thin sheets.)
     2. n-n. A piece of paper.
     3. n-n. (slang) money (cf. slang sense of paper)

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The accident is reported in today's paper.
    Het ongeluk staat vermeld in de krant van vandaag.
Do you have paper?
    Hebt ge papier?
The paper is white; the snow is also white. The paper and the snow are white.
    Het papier is wit; de sneeuw is ook wit. Het papier en de sneeuw zijn wit.
Can I have a paper bag?
    Mag ik een papieren tas?
Do you want a plastic or paper bag?
    Willen jullie een plastieken of papieren zak?



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