PAGING
pagination, folio, page number, paging
(noun) the system of numbering pages
paging
(noun) calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system); “the public address system in the hospital was used for paging”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
paging (countable and uncountable, plural pagings)
The arrangement of pages in a book or other publication.
(computing) A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.
Verb
paging
present participle of page
Anagrams
• gaping
Source: Wiktionary
Pa"ging, n.
Definition: The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.
PAGE
Page, n. Etym: [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]
1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. Bacon.
2. A boy child. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
4. (Brickmaking.)
Definition: A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Page, v. t.
Definition: To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] Shak.
Page, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]
1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.
2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
3. (Print.)
Definition: The type set up for printing a page.
Page, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged; p. pr. & vb. n. Paging.]
Definition: To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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