name paper

  • 81paper — [14] Paper gets its name from the papyrus, a sort of rush from which in ancient times paper was made. The Greek word for this (presumably borrowed from some Oriental language) was pápūros, and its Latin in descendant papyrus passed into English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 82paper — An informal name for securities that can be bought and sold or held as an investment. It is used particularly on the money market for debt instruments maturing in less than 90 days. See commercial paper; euro commercial paper …

    Big dictionary of business and management

  • 83paper — [14] Paper gets its name from the papyrus, a sort of rush from which in ancient times paper was made. The Greek word for this (presumably borrowed from some Oriental language) was pápūros, and its Latin in descendant papyrus passed into English… …

    Word origins

  • 84Paper —    The expression in the Authorized Version (Isa. 19:7), the paper reeds by the brooks, is in the Revised Version more correctly the meadows by the Nile. The words undoubtedly refer to a grassy place on the banks of the Nile fit for pasturage.… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 85paper\ bag\ princess — What you are forced to be if you have no clean clothes left. Taken from the Robert Munsch children s book of the same name. If I don t do laundry tonight I m gonna be a paper bag princess tomorrow …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 86paper\ bag\ princess — What you are forced to be if you have no clean clothes left. Taken from the Robert Munsch children s book of the same name. If I don t do laundry tonight I m gonna be a paper bag princess tomorrow …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 87Cult With No Name — Contents 1 Biography 2 Other work 3 Album discography 4 References Biography Cult With No Name (often abbreviated to cwnn ) is a music …

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  • 88kitchen paper — UK US noun [uncountable] british a roll of soft thick paper that is used for removing liquid from a surface Thesaurus: machines and equipment used for cleaninghyponym * * * noun [noncount] Brit : soft paper that is used for cleaning, wiping up… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 89Two-name — a. (Banking) Having or bearing two names; as, {two name paper}, that is, negotiable paper on which at least two persons are severally liable as separate makers, or, usually, one as maker and one as indorser. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 90wet-and-dry paper —    Paper with a coating of silicon carbide, used as an abrasive; a type of sandpaper. Its common name derives from the fact that it can be used wet or dry, as suitable with the materials abraded and the surface finish required …

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