1. s. A character or part played by a performer or actor.
My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.
Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small.
2. s. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.
3. s. The function or position of something.
Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.
What rôle does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
4. s. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes
The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.
5. s. (grammar): The function of a word in a phrase.
6. s. (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
piece of paper
piece of paper
1. s. A single sheet or scrap of paper.
paper
1. s. Papel.
2. s. Una hoja de papel.
3. s. Un periódico
4. s. Un ensayo o artículo
5. s. Papel moneda, billete.
6. Enpapelar.
7. Distribuir publicidad impresa.
8. Envolver en papel.
9. Suministrar papel.
10. adj. Hecho de papel.
11. adj. Que se parece al papel.
12. adj. Propio o relacionado con los deberes clericales.
13. adj. Que esta escrito en papel.
14. adj. Que sólo existe en documentos o en teoría.
paper
1. s. 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.
2. s. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
3. s. Wallpaper.
4. s. Wrapping paper.
5. s. (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.
6. s. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
7. s. 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 i
8. s. A scholastic essay.
9. s. (slang) Money.
10. s. (New Zealand) A university course.
11. s. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
12. s. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
cantharides paper
13. s. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
14. adj. Made of paper.
paper bag; paper plane
15. adj. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
paper tiger; paper gangster
16. adj. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
paper rocket; paper engine
17. v. To apply paper to.
to paper the hallway walls
18. v. To document; to memorialize.
After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
19. v. To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.