PIECE OF PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piece of paper mean? 

• PIECE OF PAPER (noun)
  The noun PIECE OF PAPER has 1 sense:

1. paper used for writing or printing

  Familiarity information: PIECE OF PAPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIECE OF PAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paper used for writing or printing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper

Hypernyms ("piece of paper" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piece of paper"):

slip; slip of paper (a small sheet of paper)

signature (a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book)

folio; leaf (a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book))

tear sheet (a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication)

foolscap (a size of paper used especially in Britain)

style sheet (a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication)

worksheet (a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements)

revenue stamp; stamp (a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid)

 Context examples 

He handed me, apologetically for his scholarship, a piece of paper, and observed me while I looked it over.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, and I knew that he was writing me a note.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Now I'm ready," said Amy, shutting the wardrobe and taking a piece of paper out of her pocket.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) contained in a piece of paper.

(Paper Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, an old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old disks of metal.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For context, a typical solar-powered calculator uses about 5 microwatts, so they would need a sheet of infrared rectennas slightly larger than a standard piece of paper to power a calculator.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A piece of paper was found on the table this morning—(dropt, we suppose, by a fairy)—containing a very pretty charade, and we have just copied it in.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Her taste for drawing was not superior; though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper, she did what she could in that way, by drawing houses and trees, hens and chickens, all very much like one another.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And although they are dexterous enough upon a piece of paper, in the management of the rule, the pencil, and the divider, yet in the common actions and behaviour of life, I have not seen a more clumsy, awkward, and unhandy people, nor so slow and perplexed in their conceptions upon all other subjects, except those of mathematics and music.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He held up a little crumpled piece of paper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)