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page1 [ peıdʒ ] noun count ***

1. ) a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper, or magazine:

I tore a page out of my diary and wrote my phone number on it.

turn a page: Turning the pages of the telephone book, she soon found what she wanted.

a ) one side of a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper, or magazine:

the poem on page 125

front/back page: The comics are on the back page.

opposite/facing page: Can you identify the four pictures on the facing page?

turn to/see page: For information on hotels in Amsterdam, see page 20.

sports/gardening/letters page: Lawrence was eating breakfast while glancing at the sports page.

b ) a piece of paper:

He was staring miserably at the blank page in his typewriter.

the top/bottom of the page: Chris wrote her name at the top of the page.

2. ) a boy or young man, usually in a uniform, whose job is to help guests in a hotel or members of a club

a ) BRITISH a small boy who walks with a BRIDE and helps her at her wedding ceremony

b ) a student whose job is to help a member of the Congress in the U.S.

c ) a boy whose job was to be the servant of a KNIGHT in the Middle Ages so that he could learn how to become a knight too

d ) a boy whose job was to be the servant of someone of a high social class in the past

3. ) the writing or pictures on a computer screen that you can print on one side of a piece of paper

a ) the writing or pictures on a computer screen that you can see at one time, for example as part of a WEB SITE:

Click Back to return to the previous page.

be on the same page

to understand and agree with what is being done or suggested

a page in something's history

an important period or occasion in the history of something such as a country:

a new page in world history

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page 2 [ peıdʒ ] verb transitive

1. ) to call someone's name in a public place, especially using a PA system:

We'll try to page him at the airport.

2. ) to communicate with someone by sending a message to their PAGER:

You can always page her if anything important comes up.

,page `through phrasal verb transitive

page through something to turn the pages of a book, newspaper, or magazine quickly without reading or looking at it carefully:

She sat in the waiting room, casually paging through old magazines.