[syn: foliate, paginate, page]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
page \page\, v. t.
1. To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] --Shak.
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2. To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to
deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.
[PJC]
3. To call a person on a pager.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Page \Page\ (p[=a]j), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr.
Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh.
akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]
1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of
high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor
and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed
for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar
service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl
employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United
States Congress
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He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one.
--Bacon.
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2. A boy child. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold
the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
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4. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly
molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
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5. (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South
American moths of the genus Urania.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Page \Page\, n. [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere,
pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being
fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]
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1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
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Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
--Longfellow.
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2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
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3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Page \Page\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged (p[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Paging (p[=a]"j[i^]ng).]
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to
furnish with folios.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
page
n 1: one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or
letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
2: English industrialist who pioneered in the design and
manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: Page, Sir
Frederick Handley Page]
3: United States diplomat and writer about the Old South
(1853-1922) [syn: Page, Thomas Nelson Page]
4: a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: page, pageboy]
5: a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such
as legislative functions and weddings
6: in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as
the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: page,
varlet]
v 1: contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over
a P.A. system
2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer"
3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate,
paginate, page]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
PAGE
A typesetting language.
["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L. Pierson, Wiley
1972].
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
page
1. paging.
2. web page.
(1997-04-10)