page
9 definitions found
page - 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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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.
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3. To call a person on a pager.
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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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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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page - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
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]
page - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
PAGE
A typesetting language.
["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L. Pierson, Wiley
1972].
page
1. <operating system> paging.
2. <World-Wide Web> web page.
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page - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Page, AZ (city, FIPS 51810)
Location: 36.90425 N, 111.45782 W
Population (1990): 6598 (2307 housing units)
Area: 43.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Page, ND (city, FIPS 60500)
Location: 47.15800 N, 97.57060 W
Population (1990): 266 (144 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 58064
Page, NE (village, FIPS 38085)
Location: 42.39904 N, 98.41741 W
Population (1990): 191 (100 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68766
page - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "page":
Ganymede, Hebe, acknowledgments, age, airline hostess,
airline stewardess, announce, article, attendant, back,
back matter, bastard title, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman,
bibliography, bid come, book, bootblack, boots, cabin boy, caddie,
call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in,
call off, call out, call over, call the roll, call together,
call up, cardboard, catch line, catchword, census, chapter,
chore boy, cite, clause, colophon, conjure, conjure up, contents,
contents page, convene, convoke, copyboy, copyright page, count,
cupbearer, dedication, demand, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet,
enumerate, episode, epoch, era, errand boy, errand girl, errata,
evoke, fascicle, flyleaf, foliate, folio, footboy, fore edge,
foreword, front matter, gathering, gofer, half-title page, head,
hostess, imprint, indent, index, inscription, introduction, invoke,
leaf, makeup, measure, messenger, muster, muster up, number,
numerate, office boy, office girl, order up, orderly, paginate,
paper, paragraph, passage, period, phase, phrase, point, poll,
preconize, preface, preliminaries, quantify, quantize, quire, ream,
recall, recto, requisition, reverso, run over, running title,
section, send after, send for, sentence, servant, serve, sheet,
side, signature, squire, stage, stationery, steward, stewardess,
subpoena, subtitle, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons,
table of contents, tail, tally, tell, tender, text, time, title,
title page, trainbearer, trim size, type page, usher, verse, verso,
yeoman
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