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Pageboy

The pageboy or page boy is a modern hairstyle named after what was believed to be the haircut of a late medieval page boy. It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under.

Page

A side of a sheet of paper, as in a book or newspaper
Tore a page from the book.

Pageboy

One, usually a boy, who acts or serves as a page.

Page

The writing or printing on one side of a page.

Pageboy

A hairstyle, usually shoulder-length, with the ends of the hair curled under smoothly in a loose roll.
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Page

The type set for printing one side of a page.

Pageboy

A boy who serves as a page.

Page

A noteworthy or memorable event
A new page in history.

Pageboy

A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.

Page

(Computers) A webpage.
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Pageboy

A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.

Page

(Computers) A quantity of memory storage equal to between 512 and 4,096 bytes.

Pageboy

A boy who is employed to run errands

Page

Pages A source or record of knowledge
In the pages of science.

Pageboy

A smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward

Page

A boy who acted as a knight's attendant as the first stage of training for chivalric knighthood.

Page

A youth in ceremonial employment or attendance at court.

Page

One who is employed to run errands, carry messages, or act as a guide in a hotel, theater, or club.

Page

One who is similarly employed in the US Congress or another legislature.

Page

A boy who holds the bride's train at a wedding.

Page

To number the pages of; paginate
Page a manuscript.

Page

To turn pages
Page through a magazine.

Page

To summon or call (a person) by name.

Page

To contact (someone) by sending a message to that person's pager
The doctor was paged during dinner.

Page

To attend as a page.

Page

One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

Page

One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.

Page

(figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
The page of history

Page

(typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.

Page

(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

Page

(Internet) A web page.

Page

(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

Page

(obsolete) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.

Page

(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.

Page

A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

Page

(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.

Page

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.

Page

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Page

A message sent to someone's pager.

Page

Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Page

(transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.

Page

To turn several pages of a publication.
The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.

Page

(transitive) To furnish with folios.

Page

(transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.

Page

To call or summon (someone).

Page

To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.

Page

(transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

Page

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 doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress
He had two pages of honor - on either hand one.

Page

A boy child.

Page

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

Page

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Page

Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Page

One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
Such was the book from whose pages she sang.

Page

A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

Page

The type set up for printing a page.

Page

To attend (one) as a page.

Page

To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.

Page

To call a person on a pager.

Page

To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

Page

One side of one leaf (of a book or magasine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

Page

English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)

Page

United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)

Page

A boy who is employed to run errands

Page

A youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings

Page

In medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood

Page

Call out somebody's name over a P.A. system

Page

Work as a page;
He is paging in Congress this summer

Page

Number the pages of a book or manuscript

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