"pager" meaning in English

See pager in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/ Audio: En-uk-pager.ogg [UK], En-us-pager.ogg [US] Forms: pagers [plural]
enPR: pāʹjər Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒə(ɹ) Etymology: From page + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|page|er}} page + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} pager (plural pagers)
  1. (telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. Categories (topical): Telecommunications, Telecommunications Synonyms: beeper Translations (device): بِيجِر (beyjer) [masculine] (Arabic), بِيجِر (peyjer) [masculine] (Arabic), փեյջեր (pʻeyǰer) (Armenian), ܦܪܵܣܡܲܠܵܠܵܐ (prasmālala) [masculine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), peycer (Azerbaijani), пэ́йджар (péjdžar) [masculine] (Belarusian), cercapersones [masculine] (Catalan), 傳呼機 (Chinese Cantonese), 传呼机 (cyun⁴ fu¹ gei¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 呼叫器 (fu¹ giu³ hei³) (Chinese Cantonese), call機 (Chinese Cantonese), call机 (english: call gei¹) [slang] (Chinese Cantonese), 呼叫器 (hūjiàoqì) (Chinese Mandarin), BB機 (Chinese Mandarin), BB机 (bībī-jī) (Chinese Mandarin), BP機 (Chinese Mandarin), BP机 (bīpī-jī) (Chinese Mandarin), 傳呼機 (Chinese Mandarin), 传呼机 (chuánhūjī) (Chinese Mandarin), pager [masculine] (Czech), personsøger [common-gender] (Danish), bieper [masculine] (Dutch), poŝmesaĝilo (Esperanto), hakulaite (Finnish), bip [masculine] (French), téléavertisseur [masculine] (French), pager [masculine] (French), Piepser [masculine] (German), Taschenpiepser [masculine] (German), Rufgerät [neuter] (German), Pager [masculine] (German), Funkmeldeempfänger [masculine] (German), FME [masculine] (German), τηλεειδοποιητής (tileeidopoiitís) [masculine] (Greek), βομβητής (vomvitís) [masculine] (Greek), איתורית (iturít) [feminine] (Hebrew), זימונית (zimunít) [feminine] (Hebrew), cercapersone [masculine] (Italian), ポケットベル (pokettoberu) (Japanese), ポケベル (pokeberu) (Japanese), ページャ (pēja) (Japanese), 無線呼び出し (musen yobidashi) (alt: むせんよびだし) (Japanese), 무선호출기 (museonhochulgi) (alt: 無線呼出機) (Korean), 호출기 (hochulgi) (alt: 呼出機) (Korean), 삐삐 (ppippi) (Korean), peidžeris [masculine] (Latvian), alat kelui (Malay), pūoho (Maori), personsøker [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), پیجو (peyjar) (Persian), pager [masculine] (Polish), pager [masculine] (Portuguese), пе́йджер (pɛ́jdžer) [masculine] (Russian), buscapersonas [masculine] (Spanish), bíper [masculine] (Spanish), busca [masculine] (Spanish), mensáfono [masculine] (Spanish), personsökare (Swedish), เพจเจอร์ (pèet-jə̂ə) (Thai), пе́йджер (péjdžer) [masculine] (Ukrainian), چاقىرغۇ (chaqirghu) (Uyghur), máy nhắn tin (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-pager-en-noun-en:telecommunications Disambiguation of Telecommunications: 90 6 4 Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 45 47 8 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 42 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 51 6 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 49 43 8 Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications Disambiguation of 'device': 100 0 0
  2. (computing) A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-pager-en-noun-en:computing Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 45 47 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 51 6 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 49 43 8 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  3. (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. Tags: in-compounds
    Sense id: en-pager-en-noun-AvXT9aVK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: eight-pager, one-pager

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "device",
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          "lang": "German",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "device",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "tileeidopoiitís",
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          "word": "τηλεειδοποιητής"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
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          "roman": "vomvitís",
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "iturít",
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "איתורית"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
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          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "zimunít",
          "sense": "device",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "זימונית"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "it",
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          "roman": "pokettoberu",
          "sense": "device",
          "word": "ポケットベル"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "pokeberu",
          "sense": "device",
          "word": "ポケベル"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "pēja",
          "sense": "device",
          "word": "ページャ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "alt": "むせんよびだし",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "musen yobidashi",
          "sense": "device",
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "museonhochulgi",
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          "sense": "device",
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ppippi",
          "sense": "device",
          "word": "삐삐"
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          "code": "lv",
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          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "device",
          "word": "alat kelui"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "device",
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          "lang": "Persian",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
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          "word": "چاقىرغۇ"
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "device",
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      "word": "pūoho"
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      "sense": "device",
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      "word": "personsøker"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "peyjar",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "پیجو"
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      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pt",
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      "roman": "pèet-jə̂ə",
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      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "ug",
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      "roman": "chaqirghu",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "چاقىرغۇ"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "máy nhắn tin"
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