Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A leaf or one side of a leaf, as of a book, letter, newspaper, or manuscript: tore a page from the book.
- n. The writing or printing on one side of a leaf.
- n. The type set for printing one side of a leaf.
- n. A noteworthy or memorable event: a new page in history.
- n. Computer Science A quantity of memory storage equal to between 512 and 4,096 bytes.
- n. Computer Science A webpage.
- n. A source or record of knowledge: in the pages of science.
- v. To number the pages of; paginate.
- v. To turn pages: page through a magazine.
- n. A boy who acted as a knight's attendant as the first stage of training for chivalric knighthood.
- n. A youth in ceremonial employment or attendance at court.
- n. One who is employed to run errands, carry messages, or act as a guide in a hotel, theater, club, or the U.S. Congress or another legislature.
- n. A boy who holds the bride's train at a wedding.
- v. To summon or call (a person) by name.
- v. To summon or call (a person) by means of a beeper.
- v. To attend as a page.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One side of a written or printed leaf, as of a book or pamphlet. A folio volume contains 2 leaves or 4 pages in every sheet; a quarto (4to), 4 leaves or 8 pages; an octavo (8vo), 8 leaves or 16 pages; a duodecimo (12mo), 12 leaves or 24 pages; and an octodecimo (18mo), 18 leaves or 30 pages. Abbreviated p., plural past participle
- n. In printing, types, or types and cuts, properly arranged as to length and width for printing on one side of the leaf of a book or pamphlet.
- n. Any writing or printed record: as, the page of history; also, figuratively, a book: as, the sacred page.
- n. In the manufacture of bricks by hand-molding, a slideway formed of iron rails on wooden supports. Each brick, as molded, is laid on a thin piece of board called a pallet, and slid on the page to the taking-off boy, to be wheeled away to the hack-ground.
- To mark or number the pages of (a book or manuscript).
- To make up (composed type) into pages.
- n. A male servant or attendant. Especially— A boy attendant upon a person of rank or distinction; a lad in the service of a person of rank or wealth.
- n. A boy or young man who attends upon the members and officers of a legislative body while in session: as, a Senate page; the pages in the House of Representatives.
- n. A stable-boy; a groom.
- n. A shepherd's servant, whether boy or man.
- n. In general, a child; a boy; a lad.
- n. A contrivance of cord and steel clips for holding up a woman's train or skirt to prevent it from dragging on the ground.
- To attend as a page.
- n. Any one of several South American uraniid butterflies marked with black and green in such a manner as to suggest a page's uniform.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
- n. UK A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- n. US A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- n. in libraries The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- 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 colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- v. transitive To attend (someone) as a page.
- v. transitive, US To call or summon (someone).
- v. transitive To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
- v. transitive To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
- n. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- n. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
- n. A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
- n. typography The type set up for printing a leaf.
- n. Internet A web page.
- n. computing A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- v. transitive To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- v. intransitive, often with “through” To turn several pages of a publication.
- v. transitive To furnish with folios.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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 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.
- n. obsolete 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. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- v. obsolete To attend (one) as a page.
- v. To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.
- v. To call a person on a pager.
- n. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
- n. A record; a writing.
- n. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
- v. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a boy who is employed to run errands
- n. in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
- v. number the pages of a book or manuscript
- n. English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
- v. contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
- n. United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
- v. work as a page
- n. a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- n. one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
Etymologies
- Via Old French from Latin pāgina. (Wiktionary)
- French, alteration of Old French pagine, from Latin pāgina. Middle English, from Old French, possibly from Italian paggio, perhaps ultimately from Greek paidion, diminutive of pais, paid-, child. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“[The papers referred to in the preceding.] _Extract, verbatim, from last page but one and the last page_.”
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
“You'll get individual stats for the first five positions, then stats for positions 6-10 and then 2nd page, 3rd page+.”
“Then copy from the page subdirectory one of your page*. dat files that is the problem case back up to the TARGETDIR so all of the pieces are in the same place.”
“It should have the following files in it: metadata0000. dat - metadata info other0000. dat - information used to create a style sheet dict0000. dat - dictionary of words used to build page descriptions page - directory filled with page*. dat files glyphs - directory filled with glyphs*. dat files”
“Instead of each page having a footer with page# 1 - 3, you can get the 3 pages on Sheet1 to have 1 = 96 3 and Sheet2 would have footer pages 4 - 6.”
“You want to easily test a new landing page design tailored for a few high-value keywords against your existing landing page*.”
“The fix for Safari and Google Chrome was to add to the @page directive for every page on the site (would have been sooo much easier if I could have done it in one place ...)”
“Ad shows up on nearly every page of the 30,000 page+ site.”
“I have an html page that I loaded into a variable ($page) via cURL, and I need to extract a piece of information from it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘page’.
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art & art historical
chiaroscuro, architrave, column, capital, corinthian, dorice, entablature, frieze, ionic, sketch, abecedarian, abstraction and 124 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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Word Words
Words that describe other words
adverb, verb, noun, adjective, pronoun, Synonym, antonym, phrase, dictionary, grammar, word, passage and 19 more...
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going in circles
doldrums, wake, tide, mast, ink, sea, imago, book, journal, chapter, novel, page and 14 more...
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Technology
forum, profile, identify, register, user, community, sign in, text, address, inbox, key, screen and 53 more...
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MUN Vocabulary
suspend, abstain, adjourn, agenda, amendment, binding, background guide, bloc, caucus, chair, dais, decorum and 41 more...
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broken
unable, to, complete, request, sorry, something, has, gone, terribly, wrong, When, the and 35 more...
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fasten-ating
a reflection on the Indo-European root pag & pak to fasten
peace, pay, patio, fay, fang, impact, pax, newfangled, pagan, peasant, pectin, spinto and 58 more...
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Writing
immunity, reaching, affinity, divinity, ingenuity, linguistics, pictures, kaleidoscopes, statistics, hope, monolith, mist and 222 more...
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Unfortunately Necessary Words
Words we have to use all the time, but that doesn't mean they sound good. In fact, they kind of suck. See also this list.
milk, cheese, neck, teeth, moist, dry, skin, head, feet, mouth, frankly, hair and 97 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Actual and Spectulative Sburb Classes
A list of all known Heroic Classes available to players of the game Sburb within the Homestuck universe, as well as any other words I can think of which would theoretically adhere to the known guid...
heir, seer, knight, witch, maid, page, thief, mage, rogue, sylph, prince, bard and 116 more...
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Counties in Virginia
There are only 95 counties, but this list also includes independent cities. Some have the same name (e.g. Bedford), so tags on each word say whether a Virginia county, Virginia city, or both.
lee, scott, wise, dickenson, buchanan, russell, washington, tazewell, smyth, bland, wythe, grayson and 118 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for page.

jodi Related blog post, see http://theaporetic.com/?p=1565 Jul 17, 2011
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