資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination,
having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper
cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or
paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker;
paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight,
or paperweight, etc.
{Business paper}, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in
payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to
accommodation paper.
{Fly paper}, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used
for catching flies.
{Laid paper}. See under {Laid}.
{Paper birch} (Bot.), the canoe birch tree ({Betula
papyracea}).
{Paper blockade}, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval
force.
{Paper boat} (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper.
{Paper car wheel} (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel
tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between
two plate-iron disks. --Forney.
{Paper credit}, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such
as promissory notes, duebills, etc.
{Paper hanger}, one who covers walls with paper hangings.
{Paper hangings}, paper printed with colored figures, or
otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against
the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper.
{Paper house}, an audience composed of people who have come
in on free passes. [Cant]
{Paper money}, notes or bills, usually issued by government
or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money,
and circulated as the representative of coin.
{Paper mulberry}. (Bot.) See under Mulberry.
{Paper muslin}, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc.
{Paper nautilus}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Argonauta}.
{Paper reed} (Bot.), the papyrus.
{Paper sailor}. (Zo["o]l.) See Argonauta.
{Paper stainer}, one who colors or stamps wall paper. --De
Colange.
{Paper wasp} (Zo["o]l.), any wasp which makes a nest of
paperlike material, as the yellow jacket.
{Paper weight}, any object used as a weight to prevent loose
papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise.
{Parchment paper}. See {Papyrine}.
{Tissue paper}, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to
protect engravings in books.
{Wall paper}. Same as {Paper hangings}, above.
{Waste paper}, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless,
except for uses of little account.
{Wove paper}, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not
ribbed or watermarked.
資料來源 : WordNet®
paper wasp
n : any of several social wasps that construct nests of a
substance like paper