(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.
Cookbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frying of some common food items following cookbook recipes also emitted mutagenic aerosol particles but the emitted activity was less than that in the pork experiment.
(2) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
(3) He added that the best cookbooks are often those whose pages are stuck together with sauce, and questioned how the iPhone would deal with the hands-on, often messy, nature of cooking.
(4) Kitchen Cabinet is now in its fifth season so a cookbook spin-off was bound to happen sooner or later.
(5) All These Things That I've Done by The Killers Record: Tangled Up in Blue Book: The River Cottage Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Luxury: A crate of Scottish whisky.
(6) Last summer, I spent several days in the British Library reading austerity cookbooks: survival manuals for housewives who had to cope with the rationing that would outlast the war by several years (butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat did not come off the ration until 1954).
(7) US food writer, Mark Bittman’s The VB6 Cookbook also demonstrates how to cut back in the day without giving up meat completely.
(8) Jane Baxter, who is writing a vegetarian cookbook for restaurant chain Leon, agrees: "Avoid water.
(9) Writing the cookbook was “an exercise in shared memory”, says Crabb.
(10) Big Penguin sellers were cookbooks by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and Kathryn Stockett's The Help.
(11) From Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) by Russell Norman (Bloomsbury, £25).
(12) In truth it is less a cookbook than a cultural over view of the entire Jewish diaspora, with appropriate recipes attached.
(13) Cookbook conversion factors should be revised so that condoms (100 per CYP) credit is reduced and IUDs (2.5 CYP per IUD) is increased; CYP factors need to be developed for Norplant and Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM).
(14) Well-established rich list millionaires such as Jamie and Jools Oliver saw their worth go up by £90m to £240m, ranking them at 396, as the celebrity chef's restaurant chain, TV appearances, cookbook sales and Jool's childrenswear range continued to pay dividends.
(15) Email from Roger Kirkby: Where do I send "the gluten-free" cookbook to?
(16) In many cases these cell types were selected because there was a great deal of preexisting literature on the cell type (i.e., "cookbook" methods of transfection for the cell) or the cell was simply being carried in the lab at the time the effort was made to express a biopharmaceutical product.
(17) It should be emphasized that no clinical test is 100% sensitive or specific, and attention must be paid to chronological discrepancies in the patient's presentation and "cookbook"-type approaches to evaluation should be avoided.
(18) Production of a cookbook can thus be a focal point for involving food industry, restaurants and institutional kitchens in a community intervention program aiming at a change of dietary habits.
(19) I'd already written two cookbooks in French by then, and I knew from experience that there was a lot of food waste.
(20) While ostensibly a cookbook, It's All Good is a cookbook characterised by a complete fear of food.