Page vs. Thumb

Pagenoun

One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

Pagenoun

One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.

Pagenoun

(figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.

Pagenoun

(typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.

Pagenoun

(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content.

Pagenoun

(Internet) A web page.

Pagenoun

(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

Pagenoun

(obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.

Pagenoun

(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.

Pagenoun

A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

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.

Pagenoun

A boy child.

Pagenoun

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.

Pagenoun

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Pagenoun

A message sent to someone's pager.

Pagenoun

Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Pageverb

(transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.

Pageverb

To turn several pages of a publication.

Pageverb

(transitive) To furnish with folios.

Pageverb

(transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.

Pageverb

To call or summon (someone).

Pageverb

(transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.

Pageverb

(transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.

Pagenoun

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress

Pagenoun

A boy child.

Pagenoun

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

Pagenoun

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Pagenoun

Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Pagenoun

One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

Pagenoun

A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

Pagenoun

The type set up for printing a page.

Pageverb

To attend (one) as a page.

Pageverb

To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.

Pageverb

To call a person on a pager.

Pageverb

To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

Pagenoun

one side of one leaf (of a book or magasine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

Pagenoun

English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)

Pagenoun

United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)

Pagenoun

a boy who is employed to run errands

Pagenoun

a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings

Pagenoun

in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood

Pageverb

call out somebody's name over a P.A. system

Pageverb

work as a page;

Pageverb

number the pages of a book or manuscript

Thumbnoun

The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.

Thumbnoun

(computing) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.

Thumbnoun

A thumbnail picture.

Thumbverb

(transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.

Thumbverb

To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.

Thumbverb

(travel) To hitchhike

Thumbverb

To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.

Thumbverb

To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.

Thumbnoun

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.

Thumbverb

To handle awkwardly.

Thumbverb

To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.

Thumbverb

To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.

Thumbverb

To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.

Thumbnoun

the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

Thumbnoun

the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

Thumbnoun

a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

Thumbverb

travel by getting free rides from motorists

Thumbverb

look through a book or other written material;

Thumbverb

feel or handle with the fingers;

Thumbnoun

the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.

Thumbnoun

the digit of primates or other mammals that corresponds to the human thumb.

Thumbnoun

the part of a glove that covers the thumb.

Thumbverb

press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb

Thumbverb

use one's thumb to indicate something

Thumbverb

turn over (pages) with or as if with one's thumb

Thumbverb

wear or soil (a book's pages) by repeated handling

Thumbverb

request or obtain (a free ride in a passing vehicle) by signalling with one's thumb

Thumb

The thumb is the first finger of the hand, next to the index finger. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outermost finger.