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page (1)

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page1 /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 (page through) [no object] 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] 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 in agreement:
everybody's on the same page for once.
– DERIVATIVES
paged /peɪdʒd / adjective
[in combination] a many-paged volume.
– ORIGIN late 15th century: from French, from Latin pagina, from pangere ‘fasten’.