Paper vs. Page
Difference Between Paper and Page
Papernoun
A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
Pagenoun
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
Papernoun
A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
Pagenoun
One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
Papernoun
(uncountable) Wallpaper.
Pagenoun
(figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
the page of historyPapernoun
(uncountable) Wrapping paper.
Pagenoun
(typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.
Papernoun
(rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
Pagenoun
(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content.
Papernoun
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
Pagenoun
(Internet) A web page.
Papernoun
A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
Pagenoun
(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
Papernoun
A scholastic essay.
Pagenoun
(obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
Papernoun
(slang) Money.
Pagenoun
(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
Papernoun
(New Zealand) A university course.
Pagenoun
A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
Papernoun
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.Pagenoun
(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.
Papernoun
A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
cantharides paperPagenoun
A boy child.
Papernoun
A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
Pagenoun
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
Paperadjective
Made of paper.
paper bag;paper planePagenoun
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Paperadjective
Insubstantial from the weakness of common paper
paper tiger;paper gangsterPagenoun
A message sent to someone's pager.
Paperadjective
Planned from plans being drawn up on paper
paper rocket;paper enginePagenoun
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Paperverb
(transitive) To apply paper to.
to paper the hallway wallsPageverb
(transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
Paperverb
(transitive) To document; to memorialize.
After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.Pageverb
To turn several pages of a publication.
The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.Paperverb
(transitive) To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.Pageverb
(transitive) To furnish with folios.
Paperverb
(transitive) To submit papers to (a law court, etc.).
Pageverb
(transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
Paperverb
(transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
Pageverb
To call or summon (someone).
Papernoun
a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
Pageverb
(transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.Papernoun
an essay (especially one written as an assignment);
he got an A on his compositionPageverb
(transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?Papernoun
a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements;
he read his newspaper at breakfastPagenoun
one side of one leaf (of a book or magasine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
Papernoun
a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses;
he has written many scientific papersPagenoun
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
Papernoun
medium for written communication;
the notion of an office running without paper is absurdPagenoun
United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
Papernoun
a business firm that publishes newspapers;
Murdoch owns many newspapersPagenoun
a boy who is employed to run errands
Papernoun
a newspaper as a physical object;
when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaperPagenoun
a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
Paperverb
cover with paper;
paper the boxPagenoun
in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
Paperverb
cover with wallpaper
Pageverb
call out somebody's name over a P.A. system
Paperadjective
made of paper;
they wore paper hats at the partyPageverb
work as a page;
He is paging in Congress this summerPageverb
number the pages of a book or manuscript
