Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To number the pages of; page.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To number or mark with consecutive numbers, as the pages of a manuscript, etc., in order to facilitate reference.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To number the pages of (a book or manuscript).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To number the
pages of abook or otherdocument ; tofoliate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb number the pages of a book or manuscript
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I think it is smart enough to know that there are no other pages for it to "paginate" through so it doesn't create the div in the footer or the class for this.
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You'll notice in the Social News column a three-story recommendation module, which you can paginate through to find up to 30 stories that you might like.
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That allows you to create a page with longer, if fewer, lines, but there's a glitch: The page content then doesn't paginate correctly.
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That allows you to create a page with longer, if fewer, lines, but there's a glitch: The page content then doesn't paginate correctly.
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Great colors, but paginate it and it'll work out for the best!
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These pages will delve into what to do, what not to do, how to paginate, how to approximate word count, how to hyphenate, how to use em-dashes, how large the margins should be, and a whole host of other details that will prevent the editor from thinking, I don't want to slog through this!
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They don't know how to paginate for customer interest or by authors and topics.
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The standard way to paginate is in the header, so see point #8.
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The standard way to paginate is in the header, so see point #8.
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Herewith 1. dog eating 2. computer crashing 3. stars realigning 4. death of writer (metaphysical) 5. death of writer (physical) 6. discovery of aliens in chapter 14 7. failure to paginate with base ten system 8. failure of will to finish 9. mysterious stench of fear emanating from pages
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