page
noun
[ peɪdʒ ]
• 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"
page
verb
• look through the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.).
• "she was paging through a pile of Sunday newspapers"
• divide (a piece of software or data) into sections, keeping the most frequently accessed in main memory and storing the rest in virtual memory.
• assign numbers to the pages in (a book or periodical); paginate.
Origin:
late 16th century: from French, from Latin pagina, from pangere ‘fasten’.
page
noun
• a young person employed in a hotel or other establishment to run errands, open doors, etc.
page
verb
• summon (someone) over a public address system, so as to pass on a message.
• "no need to interrupt the background music just to page the concierge"
Similar:
call (for),
ask for,
broadcast for,
summon,
send for,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘youth, uncouth male’): from Old French, perhaps from Italian paggio, from Greek paidion, diminutive of pais, paid- ‘boy’. Early use of the verb (mid 16th century) was in the sense ‘follow as or like a page’; its current sense dates from the early 20th century.
