page — meaning and etymology

Meaning

One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
Any record or writing; a collective memory.
The type set up for printing a page.
A screenful of text and possibly other content.
A web page.
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
(often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
To furnish with folios.
A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, 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.
(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.
A boy child.
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
To attend (someone) as a page.
To call or summon (someone).
To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.

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