The difference between Page and Sheet
When used as nouns, page means one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document, whereas sheet means a thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
When used as verbs, page means to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript, whereas sheet means to cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
check bellow for the other definitions of Page and Sheet
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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?"
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Sheet as a noun:
A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
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Sheet as a noun:
A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.
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Sheet as a noun:
A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
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Sheet as a noun:
A thin, flat layer of solid material.
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Sheet as a noun:
A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
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Sheet as a noun (nautical):
A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
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Sheet as a noun (nautical, nonstandard):
A sail.
Examples:
"rfquotek Dryden"
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Sheet as a noun (curling):
The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
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Sheet as a noun (nonstandard):
A layer of veneer.
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Sheet as a noun (figuratively):
Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
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Sheet as a noun (geology):
An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
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Sheet as a noun (nautical):
The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
Examples:
"fore sheets; stern sheets"
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Sheet as a verb (transitive):
To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
Examples:
"Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting."
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Sheet as a verb (transitive):
To form into sheets.
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Sheet as a verb (intransitive):
Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
Examples:
"We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long."
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Sheet as a verb (nautical):
To trim a sail using a sheet.