ON PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on paper mean? 

• ON PAPER (adverb)
  The adverb ON PAPER has 1 sense:

1. as written or printed

  Familiarity information: ON PAPER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON PAPER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As written or printed

Synonyms:

in writing; on paper

Context example:

this is exactly what the composer had set down on paper

 Context examples 

What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They may be on paper or electronic.

(Personal Health Records, NIH)

Why, it's them that, not content with printin' lies on paper an' preachin' them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin' them on the tombstones.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They can use the initially-invisible ink to draw faces—or any other design—on paper and other surfaces.

(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)

He had found out, at Yarmouth, some foreign dealers who knew that country, and they had drawn him a rude map on paper, which he could very well understand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Any of numerous unctuous combustible substances that are liquid or can be liquefied easily on warming, are soluble in ether but not in water, and leave a greasy stain on paper or cloth.

(Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The captain was very well satisfied with this plain relation I had given him, and said, he hoped, when we returned to England, I would oblige the world by putting it on paper, and making it public.

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

You should listen to me till you were tired, and advise me till you were still tired more; but it is impossible to put a hundredth part of my great mind on paper, so I will abstain altogether, and leave you to guess what you like.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In terms of grateful acknowledgment for the kindness of his brother, though expressed most concisely, he then delivered on paper his perfect approbation of all that was done, and his willingness to fulfil the engagements that had been made for him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had nothing to urge against it, but still resisted the idea of a letter of proper submission; and therefore, to make it easier to him, as he declared a much greater willingness to make mean concessions by word of mouth than on paper, it was resolved that, instead of writing to Fanny, he should go to London, and personally intreat her good offices in his favour.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)