Page vs. Thumb — What's the Difference?

A side of a sheet of paper, as in a book or newspaper

The thumb is the first finger of the hand, next to the index finger. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outermost finger.

The writing or printing on one side of a page.

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them.

The type set for printing one side of a page.

Press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb

A noteworthy or memorable event

Turn over (pages) with or as if with one's thumb

(Computers) A webpage.

Request or obtain (a free ride in a passing vehicle) by signalling with one's thumb

(Computers) A quantity of memory storage equal to between 512 and 4,096 bytes.

The short thick digit of the human hand, next to the index finger and opposable to each of the other four digits.

Pages A source or record of knowledge

A corresponding digit in other animals, especially primates. Also called pollex.

A boy who acted as a knight's attendant as the first stage of training for chivalric knighthood.

The part of a glove or mitten that covers the thumb.

A youth in ceremonial employment or attendance at court.

(Architecture) An ovolo.

One who is employed to run errands, carry messages, or act as a guide in a hotel, theater, or club.

To scan (written matter) by turning over pages with or as if with the thumb.

One who is similarly employed in the US Congress or another legislature.

To disarrange, soil, or wear by careless or frequent handling.

A boy who holds the bride's train at a wedding.

(Informal) To solicit (a ride) from a passing vehicle by signaling with the thumb.

To number the pages of; paginate

To scan written matter by turning over pages with or as if with the thumb

To turn pages

(Informal) To hitchhike.

To summon or call (a person) by name.

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.

To contact (someone) by sending a message to that person's pager

(GUI) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.

To attend as a page.

A thumbnail picture.

One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

(transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.

One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.

To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.

(figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.

(travel) To hitchhike

(typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.

To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.

(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.

(Internet) A web page.

To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.

(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.

(obsolete) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.

To handle awkwardly.

(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.

To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.

A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.

(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.

To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.

The thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

The part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

A message sent to someone's pager.

A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Travel by getting free rides from motorists

(transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.

Look through a book or other written material;

To turn several pages of a publication.

Feel or handle with the fingers;

(transitive) To furnish with folios.

(transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.

To call or summon (someone).

To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.

(transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress

A boy child.

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

The type set up for printing a page.

To attend (one) as a page.

To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.

To call a person on a pager.

To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

One side of one leaf (of a book or magasine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)

United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)

A boy who is employed to run errands

A youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings

In medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood

Call out somebody's name over a P.A. system

Work as a page;

Number the pages of a book or manuscript