pager
A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messagesA wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
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Examples
5 sentencesIs this your pager?
Це ваш пейджер? — uaspeaker
Yanni checked his pager.
This was my pager.
Meaning
4 sensesA wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
Piepser, Taschenpiepser, Rufgerät
пе́йджерpɛ́jdžer
пе́йджерpéjdžer
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 compounds)Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
- an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged
Origin
From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).
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Forms
plural: pagersSynonyms
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5 related wordsSee also
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