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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (6)
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]
VERB (3)
1. contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system;
2. work as a page;
- Example: "He is paging in Congress this summer"
3. number the pages of a book or manuscript;
[syn: foliate, paginate, page]
The 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 [1913 Webster] He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. A boy child. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground. [1913 Webster] 4. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. [1913 Webster] 5. (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
page \page\, v. t. 1. To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc. [PJC] 3. To call a person on a pager. [PJC]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.] [1913 Webster] 1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. [1913 Webster] Such was the book from whose pages she sang. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history. [1913 Webster] 3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster]The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):
PAGE A typesetting language. ["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L. Pierson, Wiley 1972].The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):
page 1.paging. 2. web page. (1997-04-10) 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): 68766Moby 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
