Entrance vs Page - What's the difference?
entrance | page |
(countable) The action of entering, or going in.
The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
(countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 (uncountable) The right to go in.
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
* Shakespeare
* Halliwell
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
(nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
To delight and fill with wonder.
* 1996 —
To put into a trance.
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
(label) The type set up for printing a page.
(label) A web page.
(label) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
To turn several pages of a publication.
To furnish with folios.
(obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
(US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(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.
A boy child.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania .
To attend (someone) as a page.
To call or summon (someone).
To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
As a noun entrance
is (countable) the action of entering, or going in.As a verb entrance
is to delight and fill with wonder.As a proper noun page is
for someone who was a servant.entrance
English
Alternative forms
* entraunceEtymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
- Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.
- the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office
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- Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.
- You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.
- to give entrance to friends
- a difficult entrance into business
- Beware of entrance to a quarrel.
- St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
- His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
- (Totten)
Synonyms
* ingangAntonyms
* (l)Etymology 2
FromVerb
(entranc)- The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons.
- See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance ...
page
English
(wikipedia page)Etymology 1
Via (etyl) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
Synonyms
* (side of a leaf) side * account, recordDerived terms
(Terms derived from "page") * on the same page * page in, page out * page-turner *Verb
(pag)- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), possibly via (etyl) (m), from , in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.Noun
(en noun)- A doghter hadde they bitwixe]] hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In [[cradle, cradel it lay and was a propre page .
Synonyms
* (serving boy) page boy * (boy child) boyVerb
(pag)- (Shakespeare)
- I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
- An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?