On Paper

Definitions: On Paper

On Paper

Adverb

1. As written or printed; "this is exactly what the composer had set down on paper".

2. As described in contrast to as practiced; "on paper, this looks like a good idea".

3. According to the assumed facts; "on paper the candidate seems promising".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: On Paper

Prediction

Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy.

Record

Verb: record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory; (remember); commemorate; (celebrate); report; (inform); write, commit to writing, reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum; make a return.

Writing

Compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold.

Uh, that's a word we made up back home for people who make foolish designs on paper when they're thinking: it's called doodling. (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

Only on paper. (The A-Team; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Henrique Lobo)

People On Paper (1945)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2001 Report on Paper Industries Machinery: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

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Books

• Abstract Expressionism Works on Paper, Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (reference)

• Barnett Newman: Paintings, Sculptures, Works on Paper (reference)

• Bacon's Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive (reference)

• William Brice: Works on Paper, 1982-1992 (reference)

• Visions and Revisions: Robert Cumming's Work on Paper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Zyklon spread on paper in superstructure]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fourdinier rolls on paper machine. Forest Products laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

A record is made on paper or videotape. (references)

These pictures are shown on a monitor like a TV screen and can be printed on paper. (references)

A machine (scanner) measures radioactivity levels in certain organs and prints a picture on paper or film. The doctor can detect abnormal areas by looking at the amount of radioactivity in the organs. (references)

Business

On paper, China now contains a comprehensive set of environmental laws dealing with auto emissions. (references)

The law makes it possible to sign documents carried by electronic means on an equal basis with documents on paper. (references)

Although air pollution has made great improvements in recent years, unfortunately, reality does not reflect what's on paper. (references)

Children

El Salvador

However, the Ministry's resources are limited, and its records are kept on paper files in its regional branches. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

Accordingly, on paper Turkey has one of the most liberal investment regimes of the OECD. (references)

Morocco

Even in areas where the regulations are favorable on paper, there are often problems in practice. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

Strong criminal penalties are available on paper, and the classification of copyright infringements as "cognizable offenses" theoretically expands police search and seizure authority. (references)

PANAMA

On paper the government has the responsibility for conducting periodic inspections of particularly hazardous work sites, but in practice its ability to perform adequate safety inspections is hindered by poor funding and lack of trained personnel. (references)

Trade

Argentina

In addition, temporary quotas exist on paper, pulp, and footwear. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

In the FTZ's, while there may be as many as 10 collective bargaining agreements on paper, only 3 actually are functioning. (references)

Djibouti

According to the ICFTU, "trade union freedoms now exist only on paper." The Government "has created a collective of grassroots trade unions, whose affiliates do not include one single representative organization with elected officials." The law requires representatives of employees who plan to strike to contact the Ministry of Interior 48 hours in advance. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "on paper": have smth. down on paper ♦ put on paper. Additional references.

Japanese Kanji 

紙上 (in a letter, in the newspapers). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しじょう (annals, dentation, genuine feeling, historical, history, in a letter, in a magazine, in the newspapers, in the street, in the town, making lines, market, personal feelings, poetic interest, poetic sentiment, rifling a gun barrel, self-interest, sincerity, supremacy, test drive or ride, tooth shape, trial ride). (various references)

Pig Latin

onay aperpay

Romanian

sub formã de proiect, pe hârtie. (various references)

Turkish

yazmak (clock up, commit to paper, compose, conceive, draw, draw up, enroll, enter, grind out, indite, inscribe, note, note down, pen, put down, put on paper, record, reduce to writing, register, set, set down, take down, write, write down, write out), yazıya dökmek (put on paper, redact, reduce to writing). (various references)

Ukranian 

написаний (pen and ink, written), надрукований. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: propane.

-1 letter: napper, rappen.

-2 letters: apron, arpen, nappe, opera, paeon, paper, pareo, prone.

-3 letters: aeon, aero, aper, earn, nape, neap, near, nope, open, pane, pare, pean, pear, peon, pepo, perp, pone, pope, pore, porn, prao, prep, proa, prop, rape, reap, repo, repp, roan, rope.

-4 letters: ane, ape, are, ear, eon, era, ern, nae, nap, nor, oar.

+1 letter: propanes.

+2 letters: dognapper, notepaper, piperonal, pronephra, reappoint.

+3 letters: dognappers, notepapers, paperbound, piperonals, propellant, propionate, reappoints, unapproved.

+4 letters: apomorphine, apportioned, coappearing, nephropathy, overlapping, paperbounds, pilocarpine, plecopteran, pneumograph, preadopting, preparation, propellants, propionates, protoplanet, reappointed, reapportion, reapproving, superweapon, tryptophane.

+5 letters: anchorpeople, apomorphines, apperception, appreciation, apprehension, bipropellant, cyclopropane, doppelganger, hypnotherapy, lepidopteran, nephropathic, perceptional, perpetration, perpetuation, perspiration, phanerophyte, phonographer, pilocarpines, plecopterans, pneumographs, pornographer, preapproving, preoccupancy, preparations, preponderant, preponderate, propagandize, protoplanets, reappointing, reapportions, repopulating, repopulation, speakerphone, superweapons, tryptophanes.

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