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   /peɪdʒ/

   noun

   • 1. 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" Similar foliosheetsideleafrectoverso
   • ▪ the material written or printed on a page: "she silently read several pages"
   • ▪ a page of a newspaper or magazine set aside for a particular topic: "the Letters Page"
   • ▪ a section of stored data, especially that which can be displayed on a screen at one time.
   • ▪ a significant event or period considered as a part of a longer history: "the vote will form a page in the world's history" Similar periodtimeepisodestagephaseepocherachaptereventincidentpoint

   verb

   • 1. look through the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.): "she was paging through a pile of Sunday newspapers"
   • ▪ move through and display (text) one page at a time: "a text file reader enables you to page through the authors text file using indexes"
   • 2. divide (a piece of software or data) into sections, keeping the most frequently accessed in main memory and storing the rest in virtual memory.
   • 3. assign numbers to the pages in (a book or periodical); paginate.

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French, from Latin pagina, from pangere ‘fasten’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. paged adjective

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • P

     3

   • A

     1

   • G

     2

   • E

     1

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