(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.
Guidebook
Definition:
(n.) A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sir Chris took the side of those who backed the zipwire as a novel and exciting way of attracting new and younger visitors to the fells which William Wordsworth and the 20th century guidebook master Alfred Wainwright trod.
(2) There have been two Lonely Planet TV commissions, Year of Adventures and Best Parks Ever, while the guidebook operation has performed "creditably" against rivals.
(3) There’s also a supermarket, a good camping supply shop and a bookshop that’s well stocked with maps and local guidebooks.
(4) A guidebook for its moderation staff recently became public, revealing that images of breastfeeding would be banned if nipples were exposed, but deep flesh wounds and crushed heads would be OK.
(5) I read the first one because I took it for science fiction, rather than a guidebook to changing my ways.
(6) However much the Asian Network needs to be improved (and better managed), it is in theory an example of the sort of public service broadcasting the BBC ought to be doing; no one could say that about a stable of travel guidebooks.
(7) The publisher, which produces the London listings magazine and a series of Time Out-branded guidebooks, has entered a 30-day consultation with staff and the National Union of Journalists over the planned cuts.
(8) "When we were going through all this, we really needed a guidebook.
(9) Nowadays, while a modern Benin City has risen on the same plain, the ruins of its former, grander namesake are not mentioned in any tourist guidebook to the area.
(10) Lonely Planet publishes around 500 travel-related titles, including guidebooks and phrasebooks, as well as TV shows and programming such as Lonely Planet Six Degrees on Discovery networks.
(11) Ditchfield has lectured about the medicinal properties of cannabis to the Royal College of GPs in London and to final-year pharmacy students at Liverpool John Moores University, and, with Mel Thomas, has written The Medical Cannabis Guidebook: The Definitive Guide to Using and Growing Medical Marijuana, due to be published later this year.
(12) I’m not a naturist, but our family is certainly not prim when it comes to nudity, and I have authored a guidebook about wild swimming .
(13) Information that could be presented more appropriately in written format was gathered into a supplemental guidebook.
(14) In 2007, his second year in office, the National Post disclosed that Team Harper had drawn up a guidebook for the Conservative chairs of parliamentary committees, advising them how to use delays, obstruction and confusion to block difficult inquiries.
(15) Then we climb (as the guidebooks have it) to the Place du Tertre, where, in honour of the great 20th-century modernists who painted around here, professional sketchers will render your head and shoulders in a style suggesting those painters had never lived.
(16) Bradbury has also presented Wainwright's Walks for the BBC, a series based on the guidebooks of the famous Lakeland walker Alfred Wainwright, along with presenting Watchdog.
(17) Cycle hire Hot Pursuit Cycles, Totnes, 01803 865174, hotpursuit-cycles.co.uk Jack Thurston is author of the Lost Lanes series of cycling guidebooks, published by Wild Things Publishing .
(18) For now, this town of 80,000 people doesn't even merit a mention in my guidebook.
(19) His “Stonehengiana” – as he terms it – ranges from lurid pink pottery adorned with a picture of the great circle to the earliest guidebooks with lovely black and white illustrations but some, frankly, odd conclusions about the history of the site.
(20) This article will appear early next year as Chapter 2 in the Primer on Clinical Indicator Development and Application, a Joint Commission guidebook on clinical indicators.