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▶noun

• 1 one side of a leaf of a book, magazine, or newspaper, or the material written or printed on it.

  ■ both sides of such a leaf considered as a single unit.

  ■ Computing a section of stored data, especially that which can be displayed on a screen at one time.

• 2 a particular episode considered as part of a longer history: a shameful page in British imperial history.

▶verb

• 1 (page through) leaf through.

  ■ Computing move through and display (text) one page at a time.

• 2 paginate (a book).

  ■ 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.

– phrases
on the same page US informal in agreement.

– derivatives
-paged adjective.

– origin C16: from Fr., from L. pagina, from pangere ‘fasten’.

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▶noun

• 1 a boy or young man employed in a hotel or club to run errands, open doors, etc.

• 2 a young boy attending a bride at a wedding.

• 3 historical a boy in training for knighthood, ranking next below a squire in the personal service of a knight.

  ■ a man or boy employed as the personal attendant of a person of rank.

▶verb

• 1 summon over a public address system.

• 2 contact by means of a pager.

– origin ME: from OFr., perh. from Ital. paggio, from Gk paidion, dimin. of pais, paid- ‘boy’.