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See also: PAGER
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/, enPR: pāʹjər
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: pag‧er
Noun
[edit]pager (plural pagers)
- (telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
- Synonym: beeper
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355:
- Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […]
- (computing) A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
- (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
- 2019, Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 309–310:
- Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globe's standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership.
- (bookbinding) One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
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Further reading
[edit]- pager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- terminal pager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Javanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]pager
- Romanization of ꦥꦒꦼꦂ
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pa‧ger
Noun
[edit]pager m (plural pagers)
- pager (device used for sending and receiving electronic messages)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English pager.
Noun
[edit]pager n (plural pagere)
Declension
[edit]Declension of pager
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]pager
- indefinite plural of page
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