to page
- verb
- /peɪdʒ/
- Kit pushed back his thick hair and paged through the book.
Examples
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I handed the man my documents, and he paged through them with bored efficiency.
Fiction book (1995) -
The husband watched TV in the living room while his wife paged through a Cosmopolitan.
Fiction book (2002) -
So let me just page through and show you a couple of plots here.
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With Al peering over his shoulder, he began to page through it.
Fiction book (1992) -
I was only paging through it in line at the grocery store.
Fiction book (2001) -
Murphy steps over as she pages through the logbook to the very end.
Fiction book (2002) -
Once the children were in bed, she paged through magazines and eventually fell asleep on the sofa.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ed sits in the chair and starts paging through Eve's diary.
Fiction book (2000) -
After the waitress cleared their dishes, they paged through their AAA road atlas.
Fiction book (1994) -
After dinner, she decided to page through the travel magazines for inspiration.
Synonyms
To turn pages quickly without reading everything
To move information on a screen up or down to look at it
To turn the pages of a book quickly while only looking a little
To look quickly through the pages of a book or magazine
To turn pages quickly or move thin things with a light quick motion
Flip a page in a book or magazine to read the next one
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Move on to the next page or to a new part of your life after a difficult time
Compounds
- Texting
The main page of a website that appears when you open the site or your browser
- Specialized
A page near the front of a book that shows the series name and other details
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb page (to turn pages) comes from the same idea of a page ('sheet'); to page through something is to move quickly through its pages.