Page vs Pays - What's the difference?
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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.
(pay)
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To be profitable for.
To give (something else than money).
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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To be profitable or worth the effort.
To discharge an obligation or debt.
To suffer consequences.
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
Pertaining to or requiring payment.
(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
As a proper noun page
is for someone who was a servant.As a verb pays is
(pay).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?
Anagrams
* (l) 1000 English basic words ----pays
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----pay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- not paying me a welcome
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.