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# page

«page» in Mova's school dictionary: **one side of a sheet of paper in a book, a magazine or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (page, pages); verb (page, pages, paged, paging — to call someone by speaker or pager)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A page is one side of a sheet of paper in a book, a magazine or a notebook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#m1)

2) A web page is one screen of a website. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#m2)

3) Long ago, a page was a boy who served a knight or a king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#m3)

4) To page someone is to call them, for example over a speaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted in books and homework; pages read each day, pages in each chapter; page numbers are counting numbers in order; phrases «turn the page», «on page 12», «front page», «web page»

### examples

- The book has 240 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x1)
- She read 20 pages each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x2)
- How many pages are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x3)
- Each chapter has 12 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x4)
- Open your books to page 35. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x5)
- Turn the page to see the picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x6)
- The story was on the front page of the newspaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x7)
- Save the web page to read later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x8)
- The page carried the knight's shield. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x9)
- A sheet of paper has two pages, front and back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/#x10)

### note

A thing counted. «pages each day» is a rate; «left» = total − read. Trap: pages of math and of reading homework are kinds. From page 5 to page 9 is 5 pages if you read both, not 4. A sheet has 2 pages (front and back).

### In the corpora

- [A CV is a page or two listing someone's education, jobs and skills; Americans call it a résumé.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/6/)
- [Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/13/)
- [Checking the rating on a box, a poster or a streaming page before pressing play prevents many accidents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/18/)
- [In printed copies of the book the tale winds down the page in the shape of a tail, getting smaller.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/14/)
- [What happened?» after each page.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «page» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/page/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.