paper

n 1: a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood

or rags or certain grasses

2: an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got

an A on his composition" [syn: {composition}, {report}, {theme}]

3: a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains

news and articles and advertisements; "he read his

newspaper at breakfast" [syn: {newspaper}]

4: medium for written communication; "the notion of an office

running without paper is absurd"

5: a scholarly article describing the results of observations

or stating hypotheses; "he has written many scientific

papers"

6: a business firm that publishes newspapers; "Murdoch owns

many newspapers" [syn: {newspaper}, {newspaper publisher}]

7: a newspaper as a physical object: "when it began to rain he

covered his head with a newspaper" [syn: {newspaper}]

v 1: cover with paper; "paper the box"

2: cover with wallpaper [syn: {wallpaper}]

pager

1. (Or "beeper", "bleeper" (UK?))

A small wireless receiver that, when triggered (generally via

phone), will beep or vibrate (un)pleasantly. The wearer will

have been trained to respond to this signal by looking at a

small screen on the device for an unimportant message.

In recent years, pagers have grown more complex, allowing for

long {alphanumeric} messages to be received and scrolled

though (as opposed to earlier models, which supported only

short numeric messages); at the same time as pager functions

are integrated into some {PDA}s. If this trend continues, the

distinction between {PDA}s and high-end {pagers} will

disappear.

{Short Message Service} allows a mobile phone to display a

message, just like an alphanumeric pager.

2. A program for viewing a {text file} a screenful at a

time via a text {terminal}, as opposed to scrolling through it

in a {GUI} window, or {cat}ting it all at once to the

terminal.

The best known pagers are {more}, {less}, pg and list.com.

(1997-09-11)