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▪ I. page, n.1|peɪdʒ|
Also 5 payge, 6 Sc. pege.
[a. OF. page = It. paggio, med.L. pagius (c 1300, Du Cange): cf. Sp. page, Pg. pagem in same sense.
The origin of the Romanic word is unsettled. Diez conjectured for It. paggio derivation from Gr. παίδιον boy, which is very doubtful; Littré suggests that med.L. pagius is from pāgus the country, a country district, comparing Pr. pages villain, rustic:—L. pāgensis, and cites the statement of Fauchet (1601), that down to the time of Charles VI and VII, 1380–1461, page in Fr. seems to have been applied solely to de viles personnes.]
I.
†1. A boy, youth, lad. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 7499 Quat bot to lese þi lijf, leue page. Ibid. 10295 War pages nan for hirdes sett, Bot stalworth men þair bestes gett. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 289 He had A Sone, A litill Knave, Þat wes þan bot a litill page. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 52 A child þat was of half yeer age In Cradel it lay and was a propre page. c1440York Myst. xviii. 101 Þat yonge page [the infant Jesus] liffe þou mon for-gange, But yf þou fast flee fro his foo. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 My father vnwelthy mee sent, then a prittye page, hither.
†2. A male person of the ‘lower orders’, or of low condition or manners: a term of contempt and sometimes of opprobrium; cf. knave 2, 3. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 6461 So wex yalow is heore visages, In the world no buth so foule pages! c1386Chaucer Frankl. Prol. 20 He hath leuere talken with a page Than to comune with any gentil wight There he myghte lerne gentillesse aright. c1430Hymns Virg. 62 He [Satan] wolde haue peerid with god of blis; Now is he in helle moost looþeli page. c1440York Myst. xxix. 381 Sirs, we muste presente þis page [Jesus] to ser Pilate. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 313 That page was neuer of sic price for to presome anys Wnto my persone to be peir. a1529Skelton Dk. Albany 416 A prince to play the page It is a rechelesse rage, And a lunatyke ouerage.
3. A boy or lad employed as a servant or attendant; hence, a male servant of the lowest grade in his line of service, corresponding to an apprentice in trade; one whose part it is to assist and learn from an upper or more experienced servant or officer.
a. Formerly in the most wide and general use; also with special qualifications, as page of the kitchen, scullery (= scullion), stable (= stable-boy), etc. Obs. in general use; but
b. Still applied in East Anglia to a shepherd's attendant, whether boy, lad, or man. (Cf. modern uses of boy, as in cabin-boy, cow-boy, post-boy, stable-boy, etc.)
a1327Pol. Songs (Camden) 237 Palefreiours ant pages. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) st. 283 Wiþ him he hadde þer a page Þat serued him in þat hermitage. 14..Metr. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 623/2 A payge of the keschyn. c1440Promp. Parv. 377/1 Page of a stabylle, equarius. 14..Customs of Malton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 61 Þai schall haffe in þ⊇ sayd mylnes two mylners and j page. 1470–85Kechyn page [see kitchen n. 5 a]. 1530Palsgr. 250/2 Page a servaunt, page. a1550Freiris of Berwik 447 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 300, I haif ane pege..will..bring to me sic thing as I will haif. 1707Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. 539 (The Queens Officers and Servants) Scullery..Yeoman..Joint Grooms..Page..Servant..Child.
b.1819Rainbird Agric. (1849) 297 (Eng. Dial. Dict.). a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Page, the lad attending on a shepherd. 1847–78Halliwell, Page, the common and almost only name of a shepherd's servant, whether boy or man... Extensively used through Suffolk, and probably further.
4. a. Chivalry. A boy or lad in training for knighthood, and attached to the personal service of a knight, whom he followed on foot, being not yet advanced to the rank of squire. Cf. foot-page (foot n.), footman 3. Now only Hist. Hence †b. A foot-soldier. †c. A camp-servant. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 6022 Fyve hundrod thousand Knyghtis to armes, so Y fynde, Withowte pages and skuyeris. c1440Generydes 5460 With hir went ij squyers and noo mo, Save ij pages to kepe ther horses also. [1847James J. Marston Hall vii, If we place you as page to any one else, it must solely be with a view to your military promotion hereafter. 1858Trench Synon. N.T. viii. (1876) 30 Like that of the squire or page of the Middle Ages.]
b , c.c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 163 A hundreth knyghtes mo..& four hundreth to bote, squieres of gode aray, & fiue hundreth o fote, to whilk I salle pay..Knyght, squier & pages, þe termes of two ȝere. c1440Promp. Parv. 337/1 Page, pageta, pedissequus, pedes. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. vii. (1520) 120/1 Whyle this doynge lasted the englysshe pages toke the pylfre of the Scottes. 1563Golding Cæsar (1565) 60 Learning by the flyght of oure horsemen and pages [calonum] in what case the matter stood. 1632Sherwood, A souldiers page, goujat.
5. a. A youth employed as the personal attendant of a person of rank. (In earlier times often himself of gentle birth, and placed in this position in order to be trained in the usages of good society.)
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 1123 Yeff he be a..page..receve hym as a..grome goodly in fere. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xviii. 51 A place for yong children, which are pages. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. i. 97. 1606 Chapman Monsieur D'Olive Plays 1873 I. 197 Pages and Parasits [live] by making legges. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Page, a youth of state, retained in the family of a prince or great personage..to attend in visits of ceremony, do messages, bear up trains, robes, etc. and..to have a genteel education, and learn his exercises. 1756tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 455 A lady of considerable rank, who..is allowed a page, or ragazzo, and he must not exceed fourteen years of age. 1808Scott Marm. i. xv, Where hast thou left that page of thine, That used to serve thy cup of wine? 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. IV. 789 Many coaches and six, attended by harbingers, footmen, and pages.
b. Hence, a title of various officers of a royal or princely household, usually with some distinctive addition, as page of honour, page of the back-stairs, page of the chamber, page of the presence, etc.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 569 A yeer or two he was in this seruyse Page of the chambre of Emelye the brighte. 1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 193/1 Bryan Wager, page of oure Robes. 1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 14 Yomen Gromes and pagys of the Kynges Chambre. a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 81, xii goodly yong gentilmen, called pages of honour. 1664(title) Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour to King Charles the First. 1698Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 416 A son of Mr. Secretary Vernon is made page of the presence to the duke of Glocester. 1707Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. 544 (The Queen's Officers and Servants)..Pages of the Back-Stairs [6]..Their Salary 80l. per Annum each. Pages of the Presence-Chamber [4]..Their Salary 25l. per Annum each. Grooms of the Great-Chamber [10]..Their Salary 40l. Ibid. 551 (The Master of the Horse, and his Officers)..Equerry of the Crown Stable..256l. Pages of Honour [4]..156l. each. Gentleman of the Horse..256l. 1899Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 514 Loudon..was made a page of the backstairs to Queen Mary. 1900Whitacker's Alm. 87 (Her Majesty's Household)..Pages of the Back Stairs [4]. State Pages [2]. Page of the Chambers... Pages of the Presence [5]. Pages, Men [3]. Ibid. 88 Master of the Horse..; Crown Equerry..; Pages of Honour [4].
c. Hence, in mod. usage, often applied to a boy or lad (usually in ‘buttons’ or livery) employed in a private house, a club, hotel, large shop, etc., to attend to the door, go on errands, and the like; a foot-boy; in U.S. to an attendant upon a legislative body.
d. Also applied to little boys fancifully dressed at a wedding ceremony to bear the bride's train.
1781Cowper Truth 146 She yet allows herself that boy behind;..His predecessor's coat advanced to wear, Which future pages yet are doomed to share. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. i, There..a page, in purple and silver, sat upon the table, swinging his legs to and fro. 1833T. Hook Parson's Daughter (1847) 222 A small white-faced boy who was called ‘page’ to Aunt Eleanor,..superseding what commonly-minded persons were accustomed to consider footboys. 1840Boston Even. Transcript 18 Feb. 2/1 A page took them to the Clerk—the Clerk handed them to the Speaker. 1878B. Harte Man on Beach 104 Obtaining political influence through caucuses, I became at last page in the Senate. 1897W. W. Jacobs Skipper's Wooing xi. 127 And Henry'll be a little page in white satin knickers holding up the bride's train. 1949Time 27 June 61/1 The Capitol Page School..is attended by the House's 49 page boys, the Senate's 21, the Supreme Court's four, and a few more Capitol-employed boys. 1955Times 8 July 10/4 She was attended by two pages, James Mostyn and Viscount Quenington, two child bridesmaids, Harriet and Sarah Duckworth, and five older bridesmaids. 1973‘M. Yorke’ Grave Matters iii. i. 54 Maybe he'll bring the girl to see us... Then you can start planning Andrew's page's outfit.
II. Transferred uses.
6. A clip or other contrivance, for holding up a woman's skirt in walking.
1864Sala Quite Alone xxvii. 185 The artful arrangement of hooks and strings, known as ‘ladies' pages’.
7. Entom. Collector's name for a black and green South American hawk-moth of the family Uraniidæ.
1886in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1901Westm. Gaz. 30 Nov. 4/2 During the last two years swarms of a singularly handsome butterfly, with dark green wings and white tails, have been noticed in Trinidad,..it is now known that they are the ‘green pages’ of the Venezuelan forests.
8. Brick-making. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Page, the track carrying the pallets, which support the newly molded bricks, and on which they are slipped to the off-bearing boy..at the end. [Fr. page was formerly applied to the brickmaker's boy who carried the newly moulded bricks on the pallets.] 9. Comb., as page-work; page-like adj.; page-boy, (a) = sense 5; (b) used attrib. and absol. to designate a woman's hair-style in which the hair is worn in a long bob with the ends turned under and hanging on the shoulders; (c) = pager n.3
1623Massinger Dk. Milan iii. i, All the dangers That, page-like, wait on the success of war. 1874A. J. Munby Diary 29 June in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 368 ‘Goodbye, William!’ she said to the page boy who opened the hall door for us. 1888W. D. Lighthall Yng. Seigneur 53 ‘So, then, do your own page-work’, said Haviland. 1902Spectator 8 Feb. 201/1 Loitering in the division lobbies as if they were untrustworthy page-boys on a round of morning errands. 1903Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 7/2 There are large numbers of page-boys employed in West-end clubs and hotels. 1939R. Chandler Big Sleep i. 13 Her hair was a fine tawny wave cut much shorter than the current fashion of pageboy tresses curled in at the bottom. 1951‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow i. 27 She still wore her fair hair in a fringe with a page-boy bob. 1961L. P. Hartley Two for River 53 ‘Mr. Lenthall, please, Mr. Lenthall, please,’ intoned a page-boy in a high-pitched nasal sing-song. 1971Guardian 27 July 9/2 Hair is in long page-boy bobs with hair slides. 1973Times 17 Jan. 4/5 The Post Office yesterday launched its radio ‘pageboy’, a tiny ‘bleeper’ which can be set off by a telephone call. 1975H. McCutcheon Instrument of Vengeance vi. 94 Her hair was..cut in pageboy style. 1976G. McDonald Confess, Fletch (1977) xxvii. 125 Her hair was a perfect black, shining pageboy.
▪ II. page, n.2|peɪdʒ|
[a. F. page fem. (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) a page:—L. pāgina a leaf of a book, a written page, f. stem pag- of pangĕre to fasten, fix in, fix together.]
1. a. One side of a leaf of a book, manuscript, letter, etc. Also, a complete leaf of a book, etc.
full page, a page containing its full complement of printed lines, or containing an engraving or illustration which occupies the entire page; also attrib.: cf. full a. 12. page for page, corresponding in the paging; also attrib.
1589Nashe Pref. Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 9 Seneca let bloud line by line and page by page, at length must needes die to our stage. 1601Holland Pliny xiii. xii. 393 If one leafe of this large Paper were plucked off, the more pages tooke harme thereby, & were lost. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., Some confound folio and page; when as a folio or leaf properly comprehends two pages. 1728Swift Poetical Works (1967) 346 Tim set the Volume on a Table, Read over here and there a Fable, And found, as he the pages twirl'd, The Monkey, who had seen the World. 1786Burns Poems, chiefly in Scottish Dial. 71 Now moths deform in shapeless tatters Their unknown pages. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ix, Intending only to look cursorily over the few first pages. 1819Byron Juan i. xcv. 50 By the wind Even as the page is rustled while we look, So by the poesy of his own mind Over the mystic leaf his soul was shook. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. i. 224 The phenomena referred to in the foregoing pages. 1889H. O. Sommer Malory's Arthur Pref. 8 Caxton is reprinted page for page, line for line, word for word. 1895Conrad Almayer's Folly 254 Books open with torn pages bestrewed the floor. 1896in Moxon's Mech. Exerc., Printing p. xviii, A line-for-line and page-for-page reprint of the original text. 1919G. B. Shaw Great Catherine 115 A play that will leave the reader as ignorant of Russian history as he may be now before he has turned the page. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 55 Knew when to stop, too—didn't cut the pages. 1950W. Stevens Auroras of Autumn 99 On the pedestal, an ambitious page dog-eared. 1969I. Murdoch Bruno's Dream 27 He..folded the page into a paper dart. 1974‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor i. xiii. 113 The pages had been excised with a razor blade.
b. Printing. The type set up, or made up from slips or galleys, for printing a page.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Printing, The page, then, composed and ranged in the galley, he ties it up therein with a cord or packthread, and sets it by. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. 193 A few observations on the method of tying up a page. 1891W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) II. 254, I will set up a trial-page of the G[olden] L[egend].
c. Type-founding. One of the parcels into which new type is made up by the founders, to be sent out: usually 8 inches by 4.
1882J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 15 Type is sent from the founders in parcels... The parcel is called a page. 1903H. Hart Let. to Editor, Moxon calls these type⁓founders' pages ‘cartridges’.
d. That which is (actually or notionally) written, printed, etc., on a page. Cf. sense 2 a.
1805W. Blake Let. 19 Jan. (1966) 857 The first page of the Poem was beautifully executed. c1862E. Dickinson Poems (1955) I. 376 Tell him the page I didn't write. 1903G. B. Shaw Revolutionist's Handbk. viii, in Man & Superman 210 Whilst these pages are being written an English judge has sentenced a forger to twenty years penal servitude. 1951L. Hughes Montage of Dream Deferred 39 Up to my room, sit down, and write this page. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. V. 177/1 Rail⁓roads employ high-speed facsimile (several pages per minute) for the transmission of waybills. 1975Times 24 Sept. 2/8 Using the Keypad, the user would call up the Viewdata service and select the ‘pages’ of information to be displayed on the television screen. 1978Broadcast 6 Mar. 10/2 Viewdata's standard page of 24 lines of text requires 480 lines of actual picture information.
e. Computers. A division of the main store of a computer consisting of a certain number of ‘words’ (commonly a few thousand); also, a corresponding amount of data or part of a program.
1948Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. XVI. 46 A ‘page’ number marks a section of ‘blocks’ in much the same fashion as the page of a book would contain several lines of data, while the block number identifies the line of data. 1962IRE Trans. Electronic Computers XI. 226/2 The main core store is..partitioned into blocks..which for identification purposes are called pages. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing ix. 124 In systems with extensive core swapping it is advantageous to have the program subdivided into ‘pages’ of a prescribed size, e.g. 1,000 words, and consider primary storage to be sub⁓divided into blocks, where each block has room for exactly one page.
2. fig.
a. Any page, or the pages collectively, of a writing; hence, rhetorically, Writing, book, record.
b. An episode such as would fill a page in a written history; a single phase of the ‘book of nature’, or of the ‘book of life’ (see book n. 4).
1619Drayton Past. Ecl. v. viii, On the world's idols I do hate to smile, Nor shall their names e'er in my page appear. 1750Gray Elegy xiii, Her ample page Rich with the spoils of time. 1752― Bentley v, That..inspiration..That burns in Shakespeare's or in Milton's page. 1822Southey Ode King's Visit Scot. xi, A deeper tragedy..hath never fill'd The historic page. 1851Trench Poems 54 Nor merely in the fair page nature shows, But in the living page of human life To look and learn. 1885Daily Tel. 24 July, A bright page in her military history.
3. attrib. and Comb., as page-head, page-heading, page-picture, page-size, page-turning; page-long adj.; page charge, a fee of so much per page requested from an organization when a learned journal publishes a paper by one of its members; page-cord, -gauge (see quots. 1858, 1875); page-galley, (a) a galley containing enough type to print a page; (b) a galley proof on which the type has been divided into pages and numbered; page-paper, a piece of stiff paper on which a page of type is placed before being fastened up with others in a forme; page printer, a printer (sense 2) whose output is in the form of printed or typed pages; so page-printing ppl. a. and vbl. n.; page-proof, a pull taken from type made up into paged form; page reference, a reference to a specific page or group of pages in a book or periodical; page three girl, a scantily-clad or nude model whose picture appears as a ‘pin-up’ in the popular press, spec. as part of a regular feature on page three of the Sun [Page Three is a proprietary name registered by News Group Newspapers, publishers of the Sun]; also in extended use; page-turner, (a) a mechanical device for turning the pages of a book (so page-turning ppl. a.); (b) fig., a very enjoyable or readable book; (c) one who turns the pages of a musician's score, usu. during a performance.
1966Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 5 Feb. 8a/2 A page charge is assessed to cover in part the cost of publication. Payment is expected but is not a condition for publication. 1968J. M. Ziman Public Knowl. vi. 117, I am informed that the decision of the referees on the paper is quite independent of whether this ‘page charge’ is honoured. 1969Physics Bull. Jan. 23/1 Page charges were first introduced by the AIP in 1930 for The Physical Review..; for The Physical Review, for example, they currently amount to $60 a page. The charges, which are not mandatory, are paid by authors' institutions and are honoured by the majority of institutions... These are used to offset those items of expenditure classified as ‘input’ production costs; subscription prices are kept relatively low and are applied towards ‘output’ production costs. 1970Nature 29 Aug. 892/1 The actual pressure behind page charges is the desire of each editor to keep the selling price of his journal within the means of the individual subscriber.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pagecord, thin twine used by printers to tie together the pages or columns [of type] previous to printing.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Page-gage, a standard of length for the pages of a given piece of work.
1927R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. i. vi. 63 The page ‘galley’... The compositors of the Elizabethan period normally finished a page of work at a time. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Crit. iii. i. 65 An example of the routine practice of the trade would be the transfer of lines of type from the stick directly into the Elizabethan page galley instead of the long or slip galley of later times. 1971Library XXVI. 297 The earliest hint of a ‘long’ galley, as opposed to a ‘square’ or page galley, seems to appear in an ‘oral testimony’..which claims that the news galley of 1770 contained at least 132 lines of matter in long primer between eighteen and twenty ems wide. This suggests a galley with dimensions of about 20 in. × 4 in.
1918E. Pound Let. 4 June (1971) 136 You have got all the points I noted in the page-galleys, so I was right in not cabling about them. [1975J. Butcher Copy-Editing xii. 213 The printer may be asked to provide page-on-galley proofs. 1976Gloss. Documentation Terms (B.S.I.) 46 Page-on-galley proof, a single-stage alternative to galley proof and page proof.]
1930Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Oct. 886/2 The page-long questions and answers of the cause célèbre. 1961Times 31 Aug. 11/1 These convoluted evocations, often in page-long parentheses.
1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. 193 The compositor..takes a page paper into the palm of his hand, and puts it against the bottom of the page.
1901Daily Chron. 15 July 3/2 The most continuous feature in this book is the series of attractive page-pictures.
1899Electrical Engineer (N.Y.) 2 Mar. 249/2 There is..no simple page printer having such speed and such perfect control over page and line as is here secured. 1948Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. XVI. 69 The output devices of the machine are page printers and tape punches. 1967Burkhard & Clare in D. H. Hamsher Communication Syst. Engin. Handbk. ii. 30 Until recent years page printers were developed almost exclusively for teletype-writer use and were almost entirely mechanical. With a trend toward higher speeds and toward data applications many of the mechanisms are being replaced by electronic circuits.
1895Jrnl. U.S. Artillery Oct. 593 (heading) Experimental use of the Essick page printing telegraph for transmitting information in sea⁓coast artillery firing 1895. 1959J. W. Freebody Telegr. ii. 55/2 This machine, known as a teleprinter, printed the messages on a paper tape. In 1931, a page printing machine was introduced.
1881W. Whitman 24 Aug. in Daybooks & Notebooks (1978) I. 256 The first batch of page-proofs of the new volume, to-day. 1901T. L. de Vinne Pract. Typogr.: Correct Composition xvi. 301 Page proofs seriously add to the expense of the work when the author makes much alteration. 1934,1951[see galley n. 5 b]. 1951W. Stevens Let. 30 July (1967) 724 On receipt of page proofs [I] will give them prompt attention. 1975J. Butcher Copy-Editing v. 59 It is usually cheaper to proceed straight to page proof.
1925Manual of Style (Univ. Chicago Press) (ed. 8) 195 Unfilled page references must be queried. 1953R. L. Collison Indexes & Indexing i. 68 Page references should be carefully stated. 1971Nature 30 Apr. 602/1 The index has suffered greatly from the speed of production, being incomplete both in subject matter and the page references given. 1975J. Butcher Copy-Editing x. 184 Form of text reference. The author's name, date of publication and page reference (if one is needed) are given in parentheses.
1929H. Crane Let. 30 Aug. (1965) 344, I think we ought to change our plan regarding page size and use. 1946Nature 24 Aug. 267/1 The members of the Institute hope that British periodicals which adopted reduced page-sizes as a war-time measure will as soon as possible revert to full size.
1975Sun 12 June 3 (caption) Lovely Jackie Brocklehurst makes her bow today as a super Sun Page Three girl. 1977Sounds 9 July 22/1 As far as homegrown pop papers are concerned Danny Fields' name is a long way from being a ‘household word’ (examples: corn-flakes, Vim, Tommy Cooper, Page Three Girl, Johnny Rotten etc. etc.). 1979Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 10 Aug. 766/2 If we saw such associations in an image together with a page 3 girl we would suspect a satirical intention. 1986Times 6 May 3/1 Prostitution and ‘page three’ girls were the subjects chosen by a senior circuit judge.
1969Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 18/3 The page-turner, made of plywood, plastic toy gears and commonplace lamp batteries, operates with the user's suck or blow a miniature electrical device. 1974Publishers Weekly 27 May 5/1 (Advt.), What happens next makes Eagle in the Sky a moving, exciting, and ultimately joyous page-turner. 1976Gramophone Mar. 1482/1 As host of the first runthrough by the composer..of the Elègie, and page-turner at the English premieres of the two string sonatas, I may be forgiven for having a nostalgia for this music. 1976Washington Post 19 Apr. C5/1 The last time I saw her she was up on that stage without an orchestra; just herself, the piano player, and the page turner. 1976Publishers Weekly 19 Apr. 81/2 Like the other crime novels from the British author, this is a real page turner.
1969Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 18/2 I've been using this pageturning gear without trouble for 18 months.
▪ III. page, v.1|peɪdʒ|
[f. page n.1]
a. trans. To wait on, attend, or follow, like a page.
b. to page it, to act as a page.
1596H. Chettle in Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 195 Ile square and set it out in Pages, that shall page and lackey his infamie after him. 1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 224 Will these moyst Trees..page thy heeles And skip when thou point'st out? 1638Ford Fancies v. ii, Nitido has paged it trimly too. 1819Keats Otho i. i. 79 Go, page his dusty heels upon a march.
c. To send for, search for, or communicate with (a person) by means of a page; to have the name of (a person) called out by a page. Also in extended use (of various electrical or electronic devices). orig. U.S. So ˈpaging ppl. a. and vbl. n.2
1904L. Bell At Home with Jardines 65 The name of Jardine was paged through the corridors and billiard-room and café. 1904Sun (N.Y.) 21 Aug. 5 A bell boy is called. ‘Here, page Mr. Smith, Room 186’, the clerk will say. The process of ‘paging’ Mr. Smith consists of calling out his name in the dining and other public rooms of the hotel. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ix. 368 A..mining promoter from Arizona..has himself paged by the boys about twenty times a day so folks will know how important he is. 1923Daily Mail 31 July 6/5 The telephone operator..turned to me. ‘Stay around awhile,’ she instructed. ‘I'll ‘page’ you when I'm through.’ 1936H. F. Olsen in RCA Rev. I. i. 58 (heading) General announce and paging systems. Ibid. 59 For certain types of general announce, paging, and sound distributing installations,..the intensity level required is relatively low. 1938Wodehouse Code of Woosters xiii. 283 Jeeves, go and page Mr. Spode. Tell him I want him to come and put a bit of stuffing into my alibi. 1959A. Sexton in Hudson Rev. Spring 80 Out in the hall The intercom pages you. 1960IRE Trans. Vehicular Communications Dec. 48 (heading) Personal radio paging in the VHF band. 1970Railway Mag. Oct. 579/1 Post Office staff at Waterloo have been issued with two-way speech radio paging equipment supplied by Modern Telephones Limited to enable a central control point to speedily contact personnel handling letter bags on the platforms and concourse. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 22 Oct. 9/2 It works on the principle of the short-range radio paging systems used in factories and large-office complexes. 1973Times 21 May (Telecommunications Suppl.) p. v/2 In connexion with pocket paging systems, dialling a code on the telephone will signal the appropriate paging receiver. The person paged will then dial a reply code on his nearest telephone. 1976New Yorker 26 Jan. 54/2 We'd better have him paged. 1977Time 2 May 49/1 A portable paging device about the size of a cigarette pack, the beeper is a mini⁓radio receiver that puts the person carrying it on instant call from office, home or anywhere else.
▪ IV. page, v.2|peɪdʒ|
[f. page n.2]
1. trans. To put consecutive numbers upon the pages of (a book, manuscript, etc.); to paginate.
1628Prynne Cens. Cozens 53 The first part of his Booke..is not paged. 1817Cobbet's Weekly Pol. Pamphlet 22 Mar. 353 The former part..is paged in such a way as to fit with the paging of Number Fifteen. 1878J. W. Ebsworth in Brathwait's Strappado Pref. 17 Even when consecutively paged, his volumes are often composed of several distinct works.
2. a. Printing. To make up (composed type) into pages.
1890in Cent. Dict.
b. Type-founding. To pack up (new type) in pieces for sending out.
1903H. Hart Let. to Editor, When type has been cast, it is set up; then dressed; then paged; i.e. packed up in convenient pieces. The founder will, if requested, page his type otherwise than to the standard width.
3. intr. To look through the pages of a book.
1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 138 The following notes, taken as I paged through the book at random. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xviii. 291 Paging through the books is an experience for every Palmer of every generation, for a single entry can recall a drama..forgotten for many years. 1970Physics Bull. Sept. 401/1 The selection of a metal..for use in the body is not a simple matter which can be accomplished by paging through a hand⁓book.
Add:4. Computing. To process data (esp. to display text, etc.) on a screen, by paging: see *paging vbl. n.1 2 b. Usu. with adv. or advb. phr. indicating the direction in which the text is processed.
1971Proc. AFIPS Conf. XXXVIII. 542/2 (heading) Paging through the data file. 1984Which Micro? Dec. 33/2 You can page forwards and backwards through the file. |