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Pronunciation: /peɪdʒ/

noun

  • one or both sides of a sheet of paper in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of bound sheets: a book of not less than 40 pages he was turning the pages of his Sunday newspaper
  • the material written or printed on a page: she silently read several pages
  • [with modifier] a page of a newspaper or magazine set aside for a particular topic: the Letters Page
  • Computing a section of stored data, especially that which can be displayed on a screen at one time.
  • a significant event or period considered as a part of a longer history: the vote will form a page in the world’s history

verb

  • 1 [no object] (page through) look through the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.): she was paging through a pile of Sunday newspapers
  • Computing move through and display (text) one page at a time: a text file reader enables you to page through the authors text file using indexes
  • 2 [with object] (usually as noun paging) Computing divide (a piece of software or data) into sections, keeping the most frequently accessed in main memory and storing the rest in virtual memory.
  • 3 [with object] assign numbers to the pages in (a book or periodical); paginate.

Phrases

on the same page

US in agreement: everybody’s on the same page for once

Derivatives

paged

adjective
[in combination]: a many-paged volume

Origin:

late 16th century: from French, from Latin pagina, from pangere 'fasten'