SLIP OF PAPER

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small sheet of paper

Example:

a withdrawal slip

Synonyms:

slip; slip of paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper (paper used for writing or printing)

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Context examples:

He stopped at my door: I feared he would knock—no, but a slip of paper was passed under the door. I took it up. It bore these words—You left me too suddenly last night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Holmes put the slip of paper carefully away into his pocket-book.

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

The interview left Sherlock Holmes very thoughtful, and several times in the next few days I saw him take his slip of paper from his notebook and look long and earnestly at the curious figures inscribed upon it.

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

And the pocket-book was again deliberately produced, opened, sought through; from one of its compartments was extracted a shabby slip of paper, hastily torn off: I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.