I. ˈpāj noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Italian paggio, perhaps from Greek paidion boy, diminutive of paid-, pais child, boy — more at paed-
1.
a.
(1) : a youth being trained for the medieval rank of knight and attached for this purpose to the personal service of a knight — compare squire
(2) : a youth employed as the personal attendant of some person of rank other than a knight especially in the medieval period and typically holding this position so as to be trained in the usages of good society
b. — used usually with some qualifying phrase as a title of one of several officers of a royal or princely household
was chosen as a page of honor
c. : a young boy chosen to serve as an honorary attendant at some formal function (as a wedding) and typically acting as a trainbearer
2.
a. : one that is employed in a usually large establishment (as a club, hotel) to deliver messages, assist patrons or visitors especially with their personal effects (as luggage), serve as a guide, or attend to other similar duties of a usually routine nature and that is usually dressed in livery or some similar distinctive formal uniform: as
(1) chiefly Britain : bellboy 1
(2) : one employed to locate or summon individuals (as for the delivery of personal messages) usually by walking about in the more frequented spots (as the lobby) while calling out the individual's name at regular intervals
(3) : a theater attendant who hands out programs and does other small services for the patrons
(4) : one that serves as a guide to visitors in a radio or television station and attends to miscellaneous light routine duties about the studio
b.
(1) : an assistant in a library who does messenger duty or attends to other routine duties (as locating, shelving, lettering, and repairing books)
(2) : a boy or man who does messenger duty and attends to other routine errands for Congress or some other legislative body
3. : a track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack
II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
1. : to wait on or attend or serve in the capacity of a page
chose a new boy to page him
2. : to try to locate or summon (as for the delivery of a personal message) by repeatedly calling out or relaying the name of
asked the bellboy to page her brother
said they would page him over the public-address system
III. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin pagina; akin to Latin pangere to fix, fasten — more at pact
1.
a. : one of the leaves of a book, magazine, newspaper, piece of correspondence, or similar article
tore one of the pages
decided to destroy the first page of the letter
turned the pages idly
was told to leave one side of the page blank
b.
(1) : a single side of one of these leaves
found the item on page one of the newspaper
asked the class to turn to the page with the picture on it
(2) : a page (as in a newspaper) regularly carrying a particular feature
the editorial page
or devoted to an area of special interest
the amusement page
the sports pages
c.
(1) : the matter printed, written, drawn, or otherwise set down or reproduced on a page
rapidly read through the first ten pages
could not understand a single page
(2) : the area bounded by the margins or edges of a page
has written enough to fill about three pages
d.
(1) : the original setting (as of type) for a page that has been printed or is to be printed
(2) : a plate or mold made from such a setting
2.
a. : a written record : book , writing
the pages of history
b. : something (as an event or sequence of events) contained in or suitable to be in a written record or report
one of the brightest pages in his life
a page without parallel in our history
3. : a section of a printed or written work
these are among the author's best pages
the finale lacks the excitement that is proper to it, especially in the last pages — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor
the finest pages of the four symphonies — Edward Cushing
IV. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
transitive verb
1.
a.
(1) : to number or otherwise mark for sequence the pages of (as a book) : paginate — compare foliate
(2) : to check the page numbering of (as a book) so as to verify proper sequence
b. : to make up (as typeset or photocomposed matter) into pages — often used with up
2. : to turn the pages of (as a book) especially in a steady or a hasty or haphazard manner (as in reading rapidly or examining superficially) : riffle through : leaf
paged the book without interest
intransitive verb
: to turn the pages of a book or magazine or similar article especially in a steady or a hasty or haphazard manner — usually used with through
paged through the magazine impatiently
V. noun
1. : a sizable subdivision of computer memory ; also : a block of information that fills a page and can be transferred as a unit between the internal and external storage of a computer
2. : the usually textual information displayed at one time on a video screen
3. : the block of information found at a single World Wide Web address
VI. intransitive verb
: to proceed through matter displayed on a video screen as if turning pages
VII. noun
: the act or an instance of paging
a page came over the loudspeaker