Interface vs Page - What's the difference?
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The point of interconnection between entities.
(chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
(computing, object-oriented) The connection between parts of software.
(computing, object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface
to be an interface, to be into an interface
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 proper noun page is
for someone who was a servant.interface
English
(wikipedia interface)Noun
(en noun)- Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
- If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between.
- The surface of a lake is a water-air interface .
- The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
- The options are selected via the user interface .
- This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
- The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface .
Derived terms
* abstract interface * generic interface * marker interface * network interface * user interfaceVerb
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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?