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: -eɪdʒə(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.

6. (bookbinding) One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

Related terms

• back-pager
• eight-pager
• one-pager

 

Translations

device

• Arabic: بِيْجِر m (beyjer), بِيْجِر m (peyjer), مُنَادٍ m (munādin)
• Armenian: փեյջեր (hy) (pʻeyǰer)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܡܲܠܵܠܵܐ m (prasmālala)
• Azerbaijani: peycer
• Belarusian: пэ́йджар m (péjdžar)
• Bulgarian: пе́йджър (bg) m (péjdžǎr)
• 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, pieper (nl) m, semafoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: poŝmesaĝilo
• Estonian: pager (et)
• Finnish: hakulaite (fi)
• French: bip (fr) m, téléavertisseur (fr) m, pager (fr) m, bipeur (fr) m
• Georgian: პეიჯერი (ṗeiǯeri)
• 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), זמונית \ זִמּוּנִית (he) f (zimunít)
• Hindi: पेजर m (pejar)
• Hungarian: csipogó (hu)
• Icelandic: símboði
• 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)
• Kazakh: пейджер (peidjer)
• Korean: 무선호출기(無線呼出機) (museonhochulgi), 호출기(呼出機) (hochulgi), 삐삐 (ppippi)
• Kyrgyz: пейджер (peydjer)
• Latvian: peidžeris m, peidžers m
• Lithuanian: peidžeris m
• Macedonian: пејџер m (pejdžer)
• Malay: alat kelui
• Maori: pūoho
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: пейжер (mn) (pejžer)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: personsøker m

  Nynorsk: personsøkjar m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پِیْجِر (peyjer), پی‌جو (fa) (pey-ju)

• Polish: pager (pl) m
• Portuguese: pager (pt) m
• Russian: пе́йджер (ru) m (pɛ́jdžer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе́јџер m

  Roman: péjdžer (sh) m

• Slovak: pager m
• Slovene: pozivnik m
• Spanish: buscapersonas (es) m, bíper (es) m, busca (es) m, mensáfono (es) m
• Swedish: personsökare (sv) c
• Tajik: пейжер (peyžer)
• Thai: เพจเจอร์ (pèet-jə̂ə)
• Turkish: çağrı cihazı (tr)
• Ukrainian: пе́йджер (uk) m (péjdžer)
• Urdu: پیجَر m (pejar)
• Uyghur: چاقىرغۇ (chaqirghu)
• Uzbek: peyjer
• 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

Polish

pager

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pager.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛj.d͡ʐɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛjd͡ʐɛr
• Syllabification: pa‧ger

Noun

pager m inan

1. (electronics, telecommunications) pager, beeper (wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages)

   Synonym: biper

Declension

Declension of pager

	singular	plural
nominative	pager	pagery
genitive	pagera	pagerów
dative	pagerowi	pagerom
accusative	pager	pagery
instrumental	pagerem	pagerami
locative	pagerze	pagerach
vocative	pagerze	pagery

Further reading

• pager in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pager in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pager in PWN's encyclopedia

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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pager	pagerul		pagere	pagerele
genitive-dative	pager	pagerului		pagere	pagerelor
vocative	pagerule			pagerelor

Swedish

Noun

pager

1. indefinite plural of page