Definition of "page"

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/peɪd͡ʒ/

noun
plural pages
1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  Quotations
  Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
  1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields
  The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
  2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses]”, in American Scientist‎
2. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
3. (figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
4. (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
5. (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
  Quotations
  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).
  2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44
6. (Internet) A web page.
7. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
verb
third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged
1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
2. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

page²

/peɪd͡ʒ/

noun
plural pages
1. (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
2. (Britain) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
3. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
4. (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.
5. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
6. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
7. (telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
  Quotations
  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, page 355
  Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages?
  1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison)
8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
verb
third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged
1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
  Quotations
  Will these moist trees […] page thy heels
  c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
3. (transitive, telecommunications, dated) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
  Quotations
  It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me.
  1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash)
4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

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