Paper vs. Spitball

Papernoun

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.

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

(uncountable) Wallpaper.

Papernoun

(uncountable) Wrapping paper.

Papernoun

(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.

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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).

Papernoun

A scholastic essay.

Papernoun

(slang) Money.

Papernoun

(New Zealand) A university course.

Papernoun

A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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

Paperadjective

Made of paper.

Paperadjective

Insubstantial from the weakness of common paper

Paperadjective

Planned from plans being drawn up on paper

Paperverb

(transitive) To apply paper to.

Paperverb

(transitive) To document; to memorialize.

Paperverb

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

Paperverb

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

Paperverb

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

Papernoun

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.

Papernoun

A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

Papernoun

A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.

Papernoun

A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

Papernoun

Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

Papernoun

Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

Papernoun

A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

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.

Paperadjective

Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper.

Paperadjective

Existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army; a paper tiger.

Paperverb

To cover or line with paper, especially with wallpaper; to furnish with paper hangings; to wallpaper; as, to paper a room or a house.

Paperverb

To fold or inclose in paper.

Paperverb

To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

Papernoun

a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

Papernoun

an essay (especially one written as an assignment);

Papernoun

a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements;

Papernoun

a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses;

Papernoun

medium for written communication;

Papernoun

a business firm that publishes newspapers;

Papernoun

a newspaper as a physical object;

Paperverb

cover with paper;

Paperverb

cover with wallpaper

Paperadjective

made of paper;

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

wallpaper

Papernoun

short for cigarette paper

Papernoun

a sheet of paper with something written or printed on it

Papernoun

a newspaper

Papernoun

personal documents

Papernoun

documents attesting identity; credentials

Papernoun

a government report or policy document

Papernoun

denoting something that is officially documented but has no real existence

Papernoun

a set of examination questions to be answered at one session

Papernoun

the written answers to examination questions

Papernoun

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

Papernoun

free passes of admission to a theatre or other entertainment.

Paperverb

apply wallpaper to (a wall or room)

Paperverb

cover a hole or blemish with wallpaper

Paperverb

disguise an awkward problem instead of resolving it

Paperverb

fill (a theatre) by giving out free tickets

Paper

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.

Spitballnoun

(baseball) A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.

Spitballnoun

A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.

Spitballverb

(baseball) To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.

Spitballverb

To brainstorm ideas.

Spitballnoun

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile; - a childish prank.

Spitballnoun

A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the fingers with the least possible friction; - also called spitter. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended sidewise it darts down and out. The use of such a pitch is against the rules of professional baseball.

Spitballnoun

a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere

Spitballnoun

an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it

Spitball

A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of a foreign substance such as saliva or petroleum jelly. This technique alters the wind resistance and weight on one side of the ball, causing it to move in an atypical manner.