pager

Thân thiện

A doctor checks her pager while walking down a hospital corridor.

Definition

Noun: An electronic device that receives and displays short messages or alerts, typically generating a series of beeps or vibrations to notify the person carrying it that they are being contacted.

Usage

A pager is a portable communication device. It is used to alert the carrier that someone is trying to reach them, often by displaying a phone number to call back or a short text message. It was widely used before the prevalence of mobile phones.

Examples

• The doctor on call always carries a pager.
• In the 1990s, many professionals relied on a pager for urgent communications.
• My pager just beeped; I need to find a phone to call the office.

Advanced Usage

• "To be paged": This verb form describes the action of signaling someone via their pager.
  • The receptionist paged the manager to come to the front desk.
• The term can be used metonymically to refer to the state of being on-call or urgently needed.
  • As a senior technician, he is always on pager duty over the weekend.

Variants and Related Words

• Beeper: A common synonym for pager, named for the sound it makes.
• Paging: The act or system of sending a signal to a pager.

Synonyms

Beeper.

Related Phrases

• To carry a pager: To have the responsibility of being reachable via pager.
  • All emergency responders must carry a pager.
• Pager code: A system of using numbers to represent short messages (e.g., 143 for "I love you") popular in pager communication.

Học thuật

Noun

1. an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged

Từ đồng nghĩa

• beeper