The difference between Page and Thumb
When used as nouns, page means one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document, whereas thumb means the short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
When used as verbs, page means to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript, whereas thumb means to touch or cover with the thumb.
check bellow for the other definitions of Page and Thumb
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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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Thumb as a noun:
The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
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Thumb as a noun (computing):
The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
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Thumb as a noun (colloquial, Internet):
A thumbnail picture.
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Thumb as a verb (transitive):
To touch or cover with the thumb.
Examples:
"to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon"
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Thumb as a verb (transitive, with '''through'''):
To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
Examples:
"I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all."
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Thumb as a verb (travel):
To hitchhike
Examples:
"So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown."
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Thumb as a verb:
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
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Thumb as a verb:
To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
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Thumb as a verb:
To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.