(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.
Collector
Definition:
(n.) One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
(n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
(n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
(n.) One authorized to collect debts.
(n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conventional lymphography still yields the best results in differentiating between primary lymphedema with aplasia of the aorto-iliac collectors and a secondary form due to neoplastic disease.
(2) It’s an additional income but it’s also a financial safeguard.” Rosby Mthinda, who has worked with Dohse for more than a decade and now trains collectors in her role as field assistant, says the baobab trade is paying dividends for people and the environment.
(3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(4) He tried to question the ability of the collector when he was caught red-handed.
(5) The source of these nitrates was probably water incompletely removed after washing and rinsing of collector containers.
(6) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(7) That is a very, very strong lever for creating an understanding of the threat of losing resources.” As well as protecting the forests, the money from TreeCrops provides collectors with an additional income to the cash they usually earn through farming.
(8) These cells were continuous with stained cells adjacent to the outer wall of Schlemm's canal and to the collector channels.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Animal collector Carl Hagenbeck with his sons and a Bengal tiger, 1907.
(10) To examine how mimicry was influenced by a person's power and the status of those around them, Carr asked 55 volunteers to watch videos of high-status people (such as a doctor or business leader) or low-status people (a worker in a fast food restaurant, say, or a rubbish collector) either being happy or angry.
(11) Three AERAS low pressure 11 stage cascade impactors with rotatable collecting plates (LPCR) were installed at the Duchesnay forest station near Québec City and four low pressure inertial collectors (LPIC) were installed in the forest.
(12) Skinflints and mixtape collectors are taking on the world's vinyl fetishists with the arrival of the first-ever Cassette Store Day.
(13) More work in the areas of automated data collection systems or use of communication partners as data collectors is required before claiming that accurate communication interactions can be recorded in natural settings.
(14) There’s no way short of a revolution that the rich super collectors can be persuaded to show their work publicly against their will; a revolution, or a generous tax incentive.
(15) After intense negotiations, Gurlitt's lawyers agreed last month to a deal with the German government under which the works would be returned to the collector, while allowing a taskforce to examine them for another year to establish the identity of their rightful owners.
(16) Blood temperature measured at 10 sec intervals and pacing rate measured at 1 min intervals were telemetered to a diagnostic programmer and data collector for storage and transfer to a computer.
(17) Gurlitt's spokesperson, Stephan Holzinger, said in a tweet that it would be up to a probate court to decide if the collector had left behind a valid will or testamentary contract – a surprising statement considering Gurlitt's lawyers had been aware of his illness and might have been expected to help him prepare for his death.
(18) In 2003 Dos Santos married Sindika Dokolo, Congolese art collector the son of the tycoon Sanu Dokolo, founder of Bank of Kinshasa.
(19) Sixty-six records (approximately two per physician) were reviewed; physician interviews were conducted by two trained data collectors who were blinded to each other's results.
(20) The box containing the IDs of all the collectors required to verify each page of signatures, was illegally opened by the CNE without our presence and the IDs of many signature collectors have mysteriously disappeared," said Josephine Koch, an activist working with the alliance.