What does "pager" mean?
A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
Pager
/peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/ name, noun
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
- Grammar: pager is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: beeper, beepers.
- Useful contrasts: cell phone, smartphone.
- Usage evidence: 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 […]
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
"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 […]"
- 2 an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged wordnet
- 3 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.
"more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file."
- 4 Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. in-compounds
"Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globes 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."
- 5 One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
Proper Noun
- 1 Acronym of Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response, a monitoring system for earthquakes. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
"The PAGER team takes information from a “shake map”—which guesses how much shaking there will be at various distances and directions from the earthquake’s epicenter—and compares that with a map of local populations."
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
cell phonesmartphone
Example
"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 […]"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "pager"?
Common synonyms include: beeper, beepers.
How do you use "pager" in a sentence?
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 […]
How do you pronounce "pager"?
Pronounced /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/.
Etymology
From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).