Definitions for paging

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paging pag·ing

Spelling: [pey-jing]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ dʒɪŋ/

Paging is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in paging (agginp).

Definitions for paging

noun

1. a technique of storage management that transfers pages from secondary storage to main storage when they are required, and returns them to secondary storage when they are not. Compare page1 (def 6a).
2. one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
3. the entire leaf of such a printed or written thing:
4. a single sheet of paper for writing.
5. a noteworthy or distinctive event or period:
6. Printing. the type set and arranged for a page.
7. Computers. a relatively small block of main or secondary storage, up to about 1024 words. a block of program instructions or data stored in main or secondary storage. (in word processing) a portion of a document. web page.
8. a boy servant or attendant.
9. a youth in attendance on a person of rank or, in medieval times, a youth being trained for knighthood.
10. an attendant or employee, usually in uniform, who carries messages, ushers guests, runs errands, etc.
11. a person employed by a legislature to carry messages and run errands for the members, as in the U.S. Congress.

Idioms

1. on the same page, Informal. (of two or more people) having a similar understanding or way of thinking:

verb (used with object)

1. to paginate.
2. to turn pages (usually followed by through):
3. to summon formally by calling out the name of repeatedly:
4. to summon or alert by electronic pager.
5. to control (an electrical appliance, machine, etc.) remotely by means of an electronic signal.
6. to attend as a page.

Origin of paging

First recorded in 1965-70; page¹ + -ing¹

Examples for paging

paging, which is for made-up books, is done by a machine worked by a treadle.

It was like paging the palm room of a New York hotel for a man named Smith.

As this is not an uncommon or expensive book, I quote its paging.

By paging through dozens of international covers, the teens are hoping to find pictures of themselves.

paging through the photos, I am caught up in the fantasy of understanding.

My Twitter went haywire—absolutely no clue why it sent that message or even what it is...paging the tech guys...

The paging and notes of Bohn's edition are followed throughout.

paging: Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Rudolph Giuliani, George Pataki, Jeb Bush.

When you call 208972 or something, it sounds like paging a box-car.

paging Timothy Leary: Janet Lessin claims on her Web site that she's able to travel astrally.