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- adjective Resembling
paper or some aspect of it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or like paper
Etymologies
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Examples
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Taro looked down at his emaciated arms, the tendons and bone visible through the paperlike skin.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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Taro looked down at his emaciated arms, the tendons and bone visible through the paperlike skin.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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Taro looked down at his emaciated arms, the tendons and bone visible through the paperlike skin.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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For years, researchers have worked on thin, paperlike displays that can be folded, rolled or sewn into the sleeve of your hoodie.
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Version 1.0 being the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader, version 2.0 the promised Plastic Logic reader and maybe Kindle 2.0, and version 3.0 a fully flexible, very thin, paperlike, color reader: basically a reusable newspaper.
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She stood for a moment, peeling off an outer layer of protective paperlike clothing and leaving behind a pair of green scrubs.
TRIAL BY FIRE J.A. JANCE 2009
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Both e-book readers use the same E Ink technology for their main screen: a pale gray, matte surface that looks a bit like an Etch A Sketch but displays text (and monochrome images, with 16 levels of gray) in far more readable fashion than an LCD, thanks to its paperlike opacity.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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For years, researchers have worked on thin, paperlike displays that can be folded, rolled or sewn into the sleeve of your hoodie.
Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008 Priya Ganapati 2008
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• Unique paperlike display, read even in bright sunlight based on eink
Another ebook reader Martyn Daniels 2008
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• Unique paperlike display, read even in bright sunlight based on eink
Archive 2008-11-01 Martyn Daniels 2008
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