PAP

See also: pap and Pap

English

Proper noun

PAP

1. (Singapore, politics) Initialism of People's Action Party.
   • Paragraph 4, Public Prosecutor v Yue Mun Yew Gary [2012] SGHC 188

     @Gary, are you a PAP agent? ... =) trying to incite rebellion and revolution on this site so that the govt will have an excuse to take down this site?

2. (Singapore, Singlish, derogatory) Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
3. (PRC) Initialism of People's Armed Police.

Noun

PAP (plural PAPs)

1. (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
2. (networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.
3. (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
4. (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
5. (philosophy) Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
6. (medicine) Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase.
7. (cosmology, epistemology) Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
8. (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure. (PAP ventilation)
   1. (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.

Hypernyms

(positive airway pressure):

• NIV (“non-invasive ventilation”)
• NPPV (“non-invasive positive pressure ventilation”)
• NIPPV (“non-invasive positive pressure ventilation”)
• PPV (“positive pressure ventilation”)

Hyponyms

(positive airway pressure):

• CPAP (“continuous positive airway pressure”)
• BiPAP (“bilevel positive airway pressure”)
• IPAP (“inhalation positive airway pressure”)
• EPAP (“exhalation positive airway pressure”)

Derived terms

(positive airway pressure):

• CPAP (“continuous positive airway pressure”)
• BiPAP (“bilevel positive airway pressure”)
• IPAP (“inhalation positive airway pressure”)
• EPAP (“exhalation positive airway pressure”)

Verb

PAP

1. (acronym, Internet slang, text messaging) Post a picture.

Alternative forms

• pap

Anagrams

• APP, App, PPA, app, app.

Indonesian

Verb

PAP

1. (slang) Alternative letter-case form of pap