Page vs Sentence - What's the difference?
page | sentence |
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.
(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
* Milton
(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
* Milton
* Atterbury
(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
(obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
*, I.40:
*:Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence ) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
(logic) A formula with no free variables.
(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
* Dryden
* 1900', , Chapter I,
(obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
(obsolete) To utter sententiously.
As a proper noun page
is for someone who was a servant.As a noun sentence is
(obsolete) sense; meaning; significance.As a verb sentence is
to declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.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 ----sentence
English
(wikipedia sentence)Noun
(en noun)- The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence .
- My sentence is for open war.
- By them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
- The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
- The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence .
- (Broome)
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
Synonyms
* verdict * convictionHypernyms
* (logic) formulaVerb
- The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
- Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Feltham)