page

/peɪd͡ʒ/
noun 11verb 7name 6

Collocations

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(noun.)

ADJ

back, front

facing, opposite

The advertisement was on the facing page, so I noticed it immediately while reading the magazine.

left-hand, right-hand | next, previous | opening

new

Every time I start a new chapter, I flip to a new page in my notebook.

blank, empty | full | loose | dog-eared

printed

The old newspaper's printed pages had turned yellow over the decades.

contents, title | business, editorial, financial, sports

problem

She called the newspaper office to report a problem page in today's edition.

VERB + PAGE

read | scan

turn (over), turn to

She turned to page 42 when the teacher asked everyone to find the vocabulary exercise.

flick through, flip through, leaf through

While waiting for her appointment, Maria leafed through a pile of old newspapers on the table.

tear (out)

splash sth across

The celebrity's scandal was splashed across every page of the tabloids yesterday.

PAGE + VERB

come loose

The pages came loose from the old notebook after I dropped it on the stairs.

yellow

The old book's yellow pages were fragile and crumbled easily when I turned them.

PAGE + NOUN

number | layout, make-up

PREP

at (a/the) ~

The teacher asked us to turn to page 23 and read the next paragraph aloud.

in the ~s

I found a beautiful poem hidden in the pages of my grandmother's old diary.

on a/the ~

There's an interesting article about climate change on page 12 of today's newspaper.

over the ~

The story was so exciting that I couldn't stop reading over the page.

PHRASES

at the bottom/foot of the page, at the head/top of the page

The page number appeared at the bottom of each sheet in the document.

pages long

The instruction manual turned out to be fifty pages long, so I didn't finish reading it yesterday.

run your eye/finger down a page

She ran her eye down the page to find the phone number quickly.

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