page

plural pages

1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

   The book which he was reading had 213 pages.

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   The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32.

   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, →OCLC

   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 in a bound document.

   Synonyms: folio, side

3. figurativelyA collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.

   a page from history

4. mediaThe type set up for printing a page.
5. computingA screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

   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 […].

   2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44

6. InternetA web page.
7. computingA block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
8. abbreviationclippingcomputingClipping of memory page.

present singular third person pages · participle present paging · participle past paged · past paged

1. transitiveTo mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.

   Synonyms: paginate

2. intransitiveoftenTo turn several pages of a publication.

   The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.

3. transitiveTo furnish with folios.

plural pages

1. historicalA serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.

   Synonyms: pageboy

2. UKA youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
3. CanadaUSA boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
4. 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, such 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. datedcommunicationsA message sent to someone's pager.

   Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages?

   1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison)

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   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

8. biologyAny one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

present singular third person pages · participle present paging · participle past paged · past paged

1. transitiveTo attend (someone) as a page.

   Will these moist trees […]page thy heels

   c. 1605–1608 (date written), 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, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]

2. USobsoletetransitiveTo call or summon (someone).
3. datedtransitivecommunicationsTo contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.

   I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.

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   It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me.

   1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash)

4. transitiveTo call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

   An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

plural Pages · alternative Paige

1. countableAn English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a servant.

   Elliot Page has become the first transgender man ever to appear on the cover of Time, as the Canadian actor opened up about his decision to come out last year.

   2021 March 17, Oscar Holland, “Elliot Page becomes first trans man to appear on Time magazine cover”, in CNN

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   Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.

   2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN

2. A unisex given name.
   1. countablerareuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
   2. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of Paige; A female given name.
3. A placename in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA city in Coconino County, Arizona.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in York Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
   3. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Nokomis community, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
   4. countableuncountableA township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota.
   5. countableuncountableA village in Holt County, Nebraska.
   6. countableuncountableA minor city and township in Cass County, North Dakota.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
   8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
   9. countableuncountableA census-designated place and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, named after William Nelson Page.
   10. countableuncountableA ghost town in King County, Washington.
4. countableuncountableA suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
5. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Page County.
6. countableuncountableAn electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.

plural Pages

1. A surname from French.

1. abbreviationacronymuncountablemolecular biologybiochemistryAcronym of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.