page
see also: Page, PAGE
Pronunciation Noun
Page
Proper noun
PAGE
Noun
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see also: Page, PAGE
Pronunciation Noun
page (plural pages)
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
- One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
- (figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
- the page of history
- (typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content.
- 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced (page 44)
- To view man pages for a command: Type
man
followed by the name of the command (for example,man ls
), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page (Figure 9).
- To view man pages for a command: Type
- 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced (page 44)
- (Internet) A web page.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- Russian: страни́ца
page (pages, present participle paging; past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- French: paginer
- Russian: нумеровать
- French: feuilleter
- Russian: пролистывать
page (plural pages)
- (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A boy child.
- A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- A message sent to someone's pager.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
- Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff — and one who was elected rather than appointed — there wasn't much question about priorities.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
page (pages, present participle paging; past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
- (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
- I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
- An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
- German: dienen
- French: convoquer
- French: biper
- German: anpiepen
- German: ausrufen
Page
Proper noun
- Surname for someone who was a servant.
- (rare) A male given name.
- A female given name.
- A city in Arizona
- A village in Nebraska
- A city in North Dakota
- An unincorporated community in Oklahoma
PAGE
Noun
page (uncountable)
- (biochemistry, molecular biology) Acronym of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
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