Page
[peɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains.
(noun.) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood.
(noun.) a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings.
(noun.) a boy who is employed to run errands.
(noun.) United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922).
(noun.) English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962).
(verb.) contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system.
(verb.) work as a page; 'He is paging in Congress this summer'.
Typist: Miranda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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 employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(n.) A boy child.
(n.) A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
(n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
(n.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
(v. t.) To attend (one) as a page.
(n.) One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
(n.) Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
(n.) The type set up for printing a page.
(v. t.) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Boy-servant (attending a royal or noble personage or a legislature), serving-boy.
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Definition
n. one side of a written or printed leaf—4 pages in a folio sheet 8 in a quarto 16 in an octavo 24 in a duodecimo 36 in an octodecimo: a book record or source of knowledge: the type illustrations &c. arranged for printing one side of a leaf: (pl.) writings.—v.t. to number the pages of.—adj. Pag′inal.—v.t. Pag′ināte to mark with consecutive numbers to page.—ns. Paginā′tion the act of paging a book: the figures and marks that indicate the number of pages; Pā′ging the marking or numbering of the pages of a book.
n. a boy attending on a person of distinction: a young lad employed as attendant: a contrivance for holding up a woman's skirt in walking.—n. Page′hood condition of a page.
Checker: Sabina
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a page, denotes that you will contract a hasty union with one unsuited to you. You will fail to control your romantic impulses. If a young woman dreams she acts as a page, it denotes that she is likely to participate in some foolish escapade.
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Examples
- George Lamb and Elliston together, after they had listened to a page or two, with one voice exclaimed, Very stupid. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Page in accordance with his subsequent patent of 1854, drew a train of cars from Washington to Bladensburg at a rate of nineteen miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I can lay my hand on my heart, and declare that every page has charmed, refreshed, delighted me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As I left the piano Miss Fairlie turned a page of the music, and touched the keys again with a surer hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And there, on the margin of the page, were the partially blurred imprints of four wee fingers and the outer half of the thumb. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Notwithstanding the late hour, he turns over to the next page and goes on to write his deductions from this result as compared with those previously obtained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was at the bottom of a page, and was for want of room compressed into a smaller space than that occupied by the marriages above. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Let her footstep, as she comes and goes, in these pages, be like that other footstep to whose airy fall your own heart once beat time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yes, he continued, after some turning over of pages, he was paid last on May 20th. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Recently one of the writers had occasion to present to him a long typewritten document of upward of thirty pages for his approval. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Who knows but I may have filled all these weary long pages of paper for nothing? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There are sixty-three pages, and some patient monk has spent months, aye, perhaps years, in making it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Many magazines print two colors for covers and inside pages, instead of full four-color printings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of the eight volumes already issued, each containing about 350 closely printed pages for half-a-crown, nearly 170,000 copies have been sold within a period of less than three years. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was agreed on my paging with Pemberton that they should not be renewed until our correspondence ceased. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That's what she did, said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it; she Ram-paged out, Pip. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She sot down, said Joe, and she got up, and she made a grab at Tickler, and she Ram-paged out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Each slip as he finished it was paged, and tossed over his shoulder out of his way on the floor. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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