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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pag•ing (pā′jing),USA pronunciation n. Computers.- Computinga technique of storage management that transfers pages from secondary storage to main storage when they are required, and returns them to secondary storage when they are not. Cf. page 1 (def. 6a).
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024page1 /peɪdʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., paged, pag•ing. n. [countable] - Printingone side, or both sides, of a sheet of something printed or written, as a book or letter:How many pages are there in this book?
- an important event or period:a bright page in English history.
- Computing
- Computinga block of computer memory up to 4,096 bytes long.
v. - page through, [~ + through + object] to turn pages of (a book).
page2 /peɪdʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., paged, pag•ing. n. [countable] - a boy servant or attendant.
- Governmentan employee who carries messages, etc., as in a legislature.
v. [~ + object] - to summon (a person) by calling out his or her name, as over a public-address system:He must be somewhere at the airport; let's see if we can page him.
- to summon or alert by electronic pager:The doctor was paged repeatedly.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024page1 (pāj),USA pronunciation n., v., paged, pag•ing. n. - Printingone side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- Printingthe entire leaf of such a printed or written thing:He tore out one of the pages.
- Printinga single sheet of paper for writing.
- a noteworthy or distinctive event or period: a reign that formed a gloomy page in English history.
- PrintingPrint. the type set and arranged for a page.
- Computing
- Computinga relatively small block of main or secondary storage, up to about 1024 words.
- a block of program instructions or data stored in main or secondary storage.
- (in word processing) a portion of a document.
- ComputingSee Web page.
v.t. - Printingto paginate.
- to turn pages (usu. fol. by through):to page through a book looking for a specific passage.
- Latin pāgina column of writing, akin to pangere to fix, make fast
- Middle French
- 1580–90
page2 (pāj),USA pronunciation n., v., paged, pag•ing. n. - a boy servant or attendant.
- Governmenta youth in attendance on a person of rank or, in medieval times, a youth being trained for knighthood.
- Governmentan attendant or employee, usually in uniform, who carries messages, ushers guests, runs errands, etc.
- Governmenta person employed by a legislature to carry messages and run errands for the members, as in the U.S. Congress.
v.t. - to summon formally by calling out the name of repeatedly:He had his father paged in the hotel lobby.
- to summon or alert by electronic pager.
- Electricityto control (an electrical appliance, machine, etc.) remotely by means of an electronic signal.
- to attend as a page.
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- Old French
- Middle English (noun, nominal) 1250–1300
Page (pāj),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical Thomas Nelson, 1853–1922, U.S. novelist and diplomat.
- Biographical Walter Hines, 1855–1918, U.S. journalist, editor, and diplomat.
page, + n. - ComputingSee Web page (in this section).
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: page /peɪdʒ/ n - ( pl pp) one side of one of the leaves of a book, newspaper, letter, etc or the written or printed matter it bears
- such a leaf considered as a unit
- a screenful of information from a website, teletext service, etc, displayed on a television monitor or visual display unit
- an episode, phase, or period: a glorious page in the revolution
vb - another word for paginate
Etymology: 15th Century: via Old French from Latin pāgina page /peɪdʒ/ n - a boy employed to run errands, carry messages, etc, for the guests in a hotel, club, etc
- a youth in attendance at official functions or ceremonies, esp weddings
- a boy in training for knighthood in personal attendance on a knight
- a youth in the personal service of a person of rank, esp in a royal household
vb (transitive)- to call out the name of (a person), esp by a loudspeaker system, so as to give him a message
- to call (a person) by an electronic device, such as a pager
- to act as a page to or attend as a page
Etymology: 13th Century: via Old French from Italian paggio, probably from Greek paidion boy, from pais child |