page

noun

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.”

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

   “Such was the book from whose pages she sang.”

   “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.”

2. One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
3. (figuratively)A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.

   “a page from history”

4. The type set up for printing a page.
5. A 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 […].”

6. (Internet)A web page.
7. A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of memory page.
9. (historical)A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
10. (British)A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
11. (Canada, US)A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
12. An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
13. A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
14. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
15. (dated)A message sent to someone's pager.

    “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.”

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

16. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
17. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

verb

1. (transitive)To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
2. (intransitive, often)To turn several pages of a publication.

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

3. (transitive)To furnish with folios.
4. (transitive)To attend (someone) as a page.

   “Will these moist trees […]page thy heels”

5. (US, obsolete, transitive)To call or summon (someone).
6. (dated, 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.”

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

7. (transitive)To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

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

name

1. (countable)An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a servant.

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. (countable, rare, uncountable)A unisex given name.
3. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)A unisex given name.
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14. (countable, uncountable)A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of Page County.
16. (countable, uncountable)An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
17. A surname from French.