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page
Noun
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A page is one side of a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper, etc.
The picture of the accident was on page one of the morning's paper.
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A page is a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper, etc.
This book has one page missing.
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A page is the part of a document that you can see at one time on a computer screen.
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A web page is a computer document that can be accessed over the internet.
This site has some of the most visited pages on the web.
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A page is a young person whose job is to help important people like knights, or members of parliament.
The pages passed out copies of the new law.
page
Verb
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If you page someone, make an announcement or send them a message asking them to contact you.
Paging Dr. Horvat! Please, contact the nursing station.
If you need me, just have them page me at the restaurant.
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If you page forward, back, through, etc. something with pages, you move from one page to another.
I paged through the magazine, just looking at the pictures.
Use the mouse to page down to the next screen.
mode
Noun
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A mode is a specific way of doing something.
The study combines two different research modes: oral history and written history.
The machine is in warm-up mode right now.
A modern city offers many different modes of transport from bicycle lanes to high speed trains.
Modern medicine must be seen as part of the capitalist mode of production.
There is a difference in English between casual and formal modes of speech.
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A mode is a fashion or style.
She was always dressed in the latest mode.
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A mode is a specific type or form of something.
Heat is a mode of energy transfer, like work, not a substance or other seawater property.
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A mode is specific a kind scale.
The Mixolydian mode is a good way for inducing a bluesey kind of mood.
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The mode is the number that occurs most often in a group of numbers.
In a normal distribution, with large sets, the mean, median and mode will typically be the same value.
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A mode is specific a kind of clause that shows how the speaker feels about it. Modes show whether something is true, probably true, a wish, etc. Usually called mood.
In Finnish, for example, the conditional mode is used both in the main clause and the subordinate.
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The mode of a rock is the different minerals in it.
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A mode is a specific pattern of wave movement.
Under normal circumstances, there is no coupling between the two modes, which have different propagation constants.
RAM
Acronym
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RAM is the acronym for random access memory.
ram
Noun
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A ram is a male sheep.
ram
Verb
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If you ram something, it means that you hit it hard, causing damage.
The racer rammed into the barriers when turning.
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If you ram someone during sexual intercourse, it means that you thrust your partner forcefully.