banner |
a newspaper headline, usu. stretching across the page. [1/6 definitions] |
bellboy |
a man or boy employed by a hotel to carry luggage, food, or drink to the guest rooms, run errands, and page guests. |
below |
appearing lower on the same page or on a following page. [1/6 definitions] |
book review |
a publication, or page or section thereof, devoted to such reviews, esp. of newly published books. [1/2 definitions] |
button |
a small, round symbol on a computer screen or electronically-active page that allows one to activate a program. [1/7 definitions] |
colophon |
a publisher's emblem or trademark, which appears usu. on the title page of a book. |
column |
one of two or more vertical sections of a page or chart separated by lines or by white space. [1/5 definitions] |
concordance |
an alphabetical index of all the main words in a book or in the entire work of an author, listing the contexts in which each word occurs and giving page references for each occurrence. [1/2 definitions] |
concrete poetry |
a form of poetry in which the arrangement of words and phrases on the printed page is intended to convey a visual as well as poetic image. |
dog-ear |
a bent or folded corner of a page in a book. [2 definitions] |
duodecimo |
the page size of a book that is five by seven and a half inches or one twelfth of a printer's sheet. [1/3 definitions] |
folio |
in a book, a page number. [1/6 definitions] |
footnote |
a note at the foot of a page or the end of a chapter that provides a comment or reference on the above or foregoing text. [1/4 definitions] |
frontispiece |
an illustration facing or preceding the title page of a book. |
front-page |
important enough to print or report on the first page of a newspaper. |
gatefold |
in a book or magazine, an oversize page folded to fit the format and so bound that it can be opened out for viewing. |
guide word |
a word printed at the top of the page in a reference book, usu. to indicate the first or last entry on that page; catchword. |
home page |
the main page of a Web site, often having a table of contents and links to other parts of the Web site. |
hornbook |
formerly, a child's primer for reading or math, consisting of a page of material covered by a transparent sheet of horn and framed. [1/2 definitions] |
hyperlink |
text or an image on any web page that, when clicked on, causes another web page or another point on the same page to be displayed on the computer screen. |
ibid. |
abbreviation of "ibidem" (Latin); in the same place; in the same book, page, or the like. |