The difference between Man page and Page
When used as nouns, man page means a helpfile in unix and unix-like operating systems, whereas page means one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
Page is also verb with the meaning: to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
check bellow for the other definitions of Man page and Page
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Man page as a noun:
A helpfile in Unix and Unix-like operating systems
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Page as a noun:
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
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Page as a noun:
One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
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Page as a noun:
A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
Examples:
"the page of history"
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Page as a noun (typesetting):
The type set up for printing a page.
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Page as a noun (Internet):
A web page.
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Page as a noun (computing):
A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
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Page as a verb (transitive):
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
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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."
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Page as a verb (transitive):
To furnish with folios.
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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.
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Page as a noun (British):
A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
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Page as a noun (US, Canada):
A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
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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.
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Page as a noun:
A boy child.
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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.
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Page as a noun:
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
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Page as a noun:
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
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Page as a verb (transitive):
To attend (someone) as a page.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Page as a verb (transitive, US, obsolete, _, in UK):
To call or summon (someone).
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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."
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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?"