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

  1. Man page as a noun:

    A helpfile in Unix and Unix-like operating systems

  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?"