The difference between Account and Page

When used as nouns, account means a registry of pecuniary transactions, whereas page means one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

When used as verbs, account means to present an account of, whereas page means to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.

check bellow for the other definitions of Account and Page

  1. Account as a noun (accounting):

    A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

  2. Account as a noun (banking):

    A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.

    Examples:

    "to keep one's account at the bank."

  3. Account as a noun:

    A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

    Examples:

    "No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena."

  4. Account as a noun:

    A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.

    Examples:

    "on no account"

    "on every account"

    "on all accounts"

  5. Account as a noun (business):

    A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.

  6. Account as a noun:

    A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.

    Examples:

    "An account of a battle."

  7. Account as a noun:

    An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

  8. Account as a noun:

    Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

  9. Account as a noun:

    An authorization to use a service.

    Examples:

    "I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project."

  10. Account as a noun (archaic):

    A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

  11. Account as a noun:

    Profit; advantage.

  1. Account as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To provide explanation. To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. To estimate, consider (something to be as described). To consider . To give a satisfactory evaluation financial transactions, money received etc. To give a satisfactory evaluation (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer . To give a satisfactory reason ; to explain. To establish the location someone. To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ ).

    Examples:

    "An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received."

    "We must account for the use of our opportunities."

    "Idleness accounts for poverty."

    "After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for."

  2. Account as a verb (transitive, now, _, rare):

    To count. To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). To count (up), enumerate. To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

  1. Page as a noun:

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

  2. Page as a noun:

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

  3. Page as a noun:

    A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.

    Examples:

    "the page of history"

  4. Page as a noun (typesetting):

    The type set up for printing a page.

  5. Page as a noun (Internet):

    A web page.

  6. Page as a noun (computing):

    A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

  1. Page as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Page as a verb (intransitive, often with “through”):

    To turn several pages of a publication.

    Examples:

    "The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor."

  3. Page as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish with folios.

  1. Page as a noun (obsolete):

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

  2. Page as a noun (British):

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

  3. Page as a noun (US, Canada):

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

  4. Page as a noun (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.

  5. Page as a noun:

    A boy child.

  6. Page as a noun:

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

  7. Page as a noun:

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

  8. Page as a noun:

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

  1. Page as a verb (transitive):

    To attend (someone) as a page.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  2. Page as a verb (transitive, US, obsolete, _, in UK):

    To call or summon (someone).

  3. Page as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me."

  4. Page as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?"

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