page
noun
- one side of a sheet of paper
- fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory
- a single hypertext document on the World Wide Web
verb
- notify someone via beeper
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒ/
name
Etymology: From French Pagé.
- A surname from French.
noun
Etymology: From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.
- A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- A message sent to someone's pager.
“Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff—and one who was elected rather than appointed—there wasn't much question about priorities.”
“Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages?”
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
verb
Etymology: From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.
- To attend (someone) as a page.
“Will these moist trees […]page thy heels”
- To call or summon (someone).
- To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
“I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.”
“It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me.”
- To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
“An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?”