pager

See also: PAGER

English

Motorola LX2 pager (sense 1), 1990s

the less pager (sense 2)

Etymology

From page +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/, enPR: pāʹjər

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: pag‧er

Noun

pager (plural pagers)

2. (telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

   Synonym: beeper

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355:

     Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […]

4. (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.
   • 2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 73:

     more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.

5. (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
   • 2019, Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 309–310:

     Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globe's standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership.

Derived terms

• eight-pager
• one-pager

 

Translations

device

• Arabic: بِيجِر m (beyjer), بِيجِر m (peyjer)
• Armenian: փեյջեր (hy) (pʻeyǰer)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܡܲܠܵܠܵܐ m (prasmālala)
• Azerbaijani: peycer
• Belarusian: пэ́йджар m (péjdžar)
• Catalan: cercapersones m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傳呼機／传呼机 (cyun⁴ fu¹ gei¹), 呼叫器 (fu¹ giu³ hei³), call機／call机 (call gei¹) (slang)

  Mandarin: 呼叫器 (zh) (hūjiàoqì), BB機／BB机 (zh) (bībī-jī), BP機／BP机 (zh) (bīpī-jī), 傳呼機／传呼机 (zh) (chuánhūjī)

• Czech: pager m
• Danish: personsøger c
• Dutch: bieper (nl) m
• Esperanto: poŝmesaĝilo
• Finnish: hakulaite (fi)
• French: bip (fr) m, téléavertisseur (fr) m, pager (fr) m
• German: Piepser m, Taschenpiepser m, Rufgerät n, Pager (de) m, Funkmeldeempfänger m, FME m
• Greek: τηλεειδοποιητής (el) m (tileeidopoiitís), βομβητής (el) m (vomvitís)
• Hebrew: איתורית f (iturít), זימונית (he) f (zimunít)
• Italian: cercapersone (it) m
• Japanese: ポケットベル (ja) (pokettoberu), ポケベル (ja) (pokeberu), ページャ (pēja), 無線呼び出し (むせんよびだし, musen yobidashi)
• Korean: 무선호출기(無線呼出機) (museonhochulgi), 호출기(呼出機) (hochulgi), 삐삐 (ppippi)
• Latvian: peidžeris m
• Malay: alat kelui
• Maori: pūoho
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: personsøker m

• Persian: پی‌جو (fa) (peyjar)
• Polish: pager (pl) m
• Portuguese: pager (pt) m
• Russian: пе́йджер (ru) m (pɛ́jdžer)
• Spanish: buscapersonas (es) m, bíper m, busca (es) m, mensáfono (es) m
• Swedish: personsökare (sv)
• Thai: เพจเจอร์ (pèet-jə̂ə)
• Ukrainian: пе́йджер (uk) m (péjdžer)
• Uyghur: چاقىرغۇ (chaqirghu)
• Vietnamese: máy nhắn tin

Further reading

• pager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• terminal pager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gaper, grape, parge

Javanese

Romanization

pager

1. Romanization of ꦥꦒꦼꦂ

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.d͡ʒeʁ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.d͡ʒeʁ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.d͡ʒeɾ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.d͡ʒeʁ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.d͡ʒeɻ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐj.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpɐj.ðʒɛɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐj.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpɐj.ðʒɛɾ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpej.ðʒɛɾ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpej.ðʒɛɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpe.ðʒɛɾ]

• Hyphenation: pa‧ger

Noun

pager m (plural pagers)

1. pager (device used for sending and receiving electronic messages)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pager.

Noun

pager n (plural pagere)

1. (dated) pager (device that receives text messages)

Declension

Declension of pager

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pager	pagerul	(niște) pagere	pagerele
genitive/dative	(unui) pager	pagerului	(unor) pagere	pagerelor
vocative	pagerule		pagerelor

Swedish

Noun

pager

1. indefinite plural of page