page
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
page
n 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}]
v 1: contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over
a P.A. system
2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer"
3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: {foliate},
{paginate}, {page}]
from
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
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He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one.
--Bacon.
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2. A boy child. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold
the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
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4. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly
molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
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5. (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South
American moths of the genus {Urania}.
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from
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}.]
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1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
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Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
--Longfellow.
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2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
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3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
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from
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): 68766
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Page, AZ -- U.S. city in Arizona
Population (2000): 6809
Housing Units (2000): 2606
Land area (2000): 16.587771 sq. miles (42.962129 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.020560 sq. miles (0.053249 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.608331 sq. miles (43.015378 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51810
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 36.914296 N, 111.459717 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Page, AZ
Page
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Page, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 157
Housing Units (2000): 95
Land area (2000): 0.244237 sq. miles (0.632572 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.244237 sq. miles (0.632572 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38085
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.400412 N, 98.418682 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68766
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Page, NE
Page
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Page, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 225
Housing Units (2000): 125
Land area (2000): 0.178694 sq. miles (0.462816 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.178694 sq. miles (0.462816 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60500
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.157963 N, 97.570149 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58064
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Page, ND
Page
from
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Page -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 16976
Housing Units (2000): 7302
Land area (2000): 534.824193 sq. miles (1385.188241 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.524760 sq. miles (1.359121 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 535.348953 sq. miles (1386.547362 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.740012 N, 95.165970 W
Headwords:
Page
Page, IA
Page County
Page County, IA
from
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Page -- U.S. County in Virginia
Population (2000): 23177
Housing Units (2000): 10557
Land area (2000): 311.125060 sq. miles (805.810173 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.967319 sq. miles (7.685321 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 314.092379 sq. miles (813.495494 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.613462 N, 78.488469 W
Headwords:
Page
Page, VA
Page County
Page County, VA
from
Moby 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
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