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page(2) (iou)



page noun2 & verb2. L16.
[Old & mod. French, reduced form of pagene from Latin pagina vine-trellis, column of writing, page or leaf, from pangere fasten, fix in or together.]
A. noun.
Either side of a leaf of a book, manuscript, letter, etc. Also, a complete leaf of a book etc. L16.
full-page: see FULL adjective. Yellow Pages: see YELLOW adjective.
C. Isherwood Turning over the pages of a book I have been reading. J. Frame They saw the morning paper, the headlines on the front page.
b. That which is (actually or notionally) written, printed, etc., on a page, or which fills a VDU screen. E19.
E. B. Browning I offer these pages as a small testimony of..gratitude. A. N. Wilson The narrator creates, for perhaps a page and a half, the illusion that we are really there.
c. Computing. A division of the main store of a computer, or of the data stored. M20.
fig. Written or printed material; spec. (arch. & poet.) an author's collected work; a memorable event or episode such as would fill a page in a written history etc. E17.
Shelley His page Which charms the chosen spirits of the time. Daily Telegraph A bright page in her military history.
Printing.
a. The type set or made up for printing a page. E18.
b. A parcel of new type made up by a type-founder. L19.
Comb.: page charge a fee per page of a published article levied by a periodical etc. upon the academic body or institution to which the author belongs; page-galley (a) a galley containing enough type to print a page; (b) a galley proof with type divided into pages and numbered; page-one adjective (N. Amer.) worthy of being featured on the front page of a newspaper etc.; page-paper Printing stiff paper or board used to support a page of type before imposition; page printer a machine that prints or types text in paged form; page-proof a pull or print taken from type in paged form; page reference: to a specific page or group of pages in a book, periodical, etc.; page three girl [after the standard page position in the Sun, a Brit. newspaper] a nude or semi-nude model whose photograph appears usu. as part of a regular series in some tabloid newspapers; page-turn each point in a musical score where the page must be turned; page-turner (a) a person who turns the pages of a musician's score, esp. during a performance; (b) fig. an exciting book; page-turning adjective (of a book) very exciting.
b. verb.
verb trans. = PAGINATE. E17.
G. B. Shaw Kindly send me the proofs. They ought not to be paged.
verb trans. Printing.
a. Make up (composed type) into pages. L19.
b. Pack up (new type) into pages for sending out. E20.
verb intrans. Look through the pages of a book etc.; peruse text on a VDU one screenful at a time (foll. by down, through, up). M20.
S. Biko The police only need to page at random through their statute book to be able..to charge a victim. A. Lurie Polly was..idly paging through the New York Times travel section.
paged adjective (a) (of a book etc.) having the pages numbered; (b) (with prefixed adjective or numeral) having pages of a specified kind or number; (c) Computing divided into pages: M19.
pageful noun as much text etc. as fills a page or VDU screen L19.
pager noun2 (a) (with prefixed numeral) a book, letter, etc., having a specified number of pages; (b) front-pager: see FRONT noun & adjective: M20.
paging noun (a) = PAGINATION; (b) Computing division (of storage) into pages; the transfer of pages between a central and an auxiliary store: L18.