(n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
(n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
(n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
(n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
(n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
(v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
(v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
(v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(4) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(5) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
(6) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(7) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(8) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(9) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
(10) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
(11) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(12) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(13) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
(14) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
(15) In 1999, Kamprad admitted his past involvement with Nazism in a book about his life and asked for forgiveness for his "stupidity."
(16) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(17) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
(18) Rates Six to 12 hours from R$189 (£54) to R$396 (£113), or from £199 by the day; booking policy unlikely to change during the World Cup.
(19) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(20) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
Booky
Definition:
(a.) Bookish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
(2) 2.41am BST Spurs 25-27 Heat - end of the 1st quarter Email from Roger Kirkby: And here we are, game six, TV happy, bookies happy, game on.
(3) That’s not a prediction, just the price that was available at my local bookies this morning.
(4) The 44-year-old performer was the bookies' favourite to claim the Oscar, despite a recent repeat of accusations that director Allen had abused his infant daughter, Dylan.
(5) He even put money on a Tory victory at the bookies.
(6) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates; bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.
(7) Another Tour win, and hopefully people will see him differently, but mine and the bookies' money are not on our Kenyan-born Brit.
(8) Lincoln is currently the bookies' favourite to win the best picture nomination.
(9) Miliband said a number of councils had passed motions to ban bookies from the high street.
(10) Odds 20-1 Social media’s favourite, and the bookies’ outsider.
(11) It is just a week into the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham , the frontrunner according to the bookies, admits that it already seems to have “lasted for ever”.
(12) The bookies have not waited for the announcement of the results of the ballot and have already paid out.
(13) Kennedy described the new role, which hasn’t yet been cast, as “probably in the high teens, low 20s” , which should have the bookies scrambling to lower the odds on Breaking Bad’s 34-year-old Aaron Paul getting the role.
(14) Presenters kept shouting that Ed was now the bookies' favourite.
(15) With minor parties, from Greens to the BNP, doing their disruptive best, the bookies too are hedging their odds.
(16) A victory for AV would be a boost and the more so for now being regarded by bookies and pollsters as a remote possibility.
(17) Despite losing in the final, Boyle has been tipped to make millions from a singing career and bookies are already predicting a number one chart hit in America.
(18) With its lack of big names and its potential contenders that have yet to be published, the longlist has elicited wildly divergent assessments from bookies, with three different favourites – O'Neill for William Hill, Mukherjee for Ladbrokes and Flanagan for Paddy Power – and agreement only that Mitchell (expertly described in Paddy Power's press release as "the comedian David Mitchell") will be among the front-runners and Ali Smith and Jacobson not far behind.
(19) They’re tied for the third-best record in all of baseball and even though their pitching has been lights out in the second half bookies ain’t believin’ in the Birds.
(20) The club are apparently considering the credentials of the 60-year-old Yilmaz Vural, who has managed at 20 clubs in his native Turkey, while the bookies' favourite is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.