page
part of speech
noun (page, pages); verb (page, pages, paged, paging — to call someone by speaker or pager)
meaning for a pupil
1) A page is one side of a sheet of paper in a book, a magazine or a notebook. tree →
2) A web page is one screen of a website. tree →
3) Long ago, a page was a boy who served a knight or a king. tree →
4) To page someone is to call them, for example over a speaker. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing counted in books and homework; pages read each day, pages in each chapter; page numbers are counting numbers in order; phrases «turn the page», «on page 12», «front page», «web page»
examples
- The book has 240 pages. tree →
- She read 20 pages each day. tree →
- How many pages are left? tree →
- Each chapter has 12 pages. tree →
- Open your books to page 35. tree →
- Turn the page to see the picture. tree →
- The story was on the front page of the newspaper. tree →
- Save the web page to read later. tree →
- The page carried the knight's shield. tree →
- A sheet of paper has two pages, front and back. tree →
note
A thing counted. «pages each day» is a rate; «left» = total − read. Trap: pages of math and of reading homework are kinds. From page 5 to page 9 is 5 pages if you read both, not 4. A sheet has 2 pages (front and back).
In the corpora
- A CV is a page or two listing someone's education, jobs and skills; Americans call it a résumé.
- Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.
- Checking the rating on a box, a poster or a streaming page before pressing play prevents many accidents.
- In printed copies of the book the tale winds down the page in the shape of a tail, getting smaller.
- What happened?» after each page.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «page» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.