(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.
Interleave
Definition:
(v. t.) To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method involves saturating all spins outside a plane, selectively exciting individual lines, phase encoding along each line, sampling the FID without gradients, and interleaving interrogation of multiple lines.
(2) Subjects were visually reinforced for responding to frequency increments, frequency decrements, intensity increments, or intensity decrements in an ongoing train of 1.0-kHz tone bursts, and stimulus control was monitored using randomly interleaved probe and catch trials.
(3) Nevertheless, serious errors involving both main-chain and side-chain atoms still remained, requiring numerous model rebuilding sessions interleaved with refinement cycles.
(4) A two-alternative forced choice interleaved paradigm was used to measure surrounded and isolated visual acuity defined as 75% correct.
(5) Each of the larger giant axons is enveloped by a Schwann cell layer outside of which is a multilayered sheath consisting of one-cell thick belts of flattened cells and interleaved zones of collagen fibrils and extracellular matrix.
(6) Beyond the Schwann cells, layers of endoneurial cells (fibrocytes) are interleaved by collagen-filled spaces.
(7) The thresholds for two difference 20-ms test signals were determined within the same measurement using an interleaved adaptive 3-interval forced-choice (3IFC) procedure.
(8) The technique does not require cardiac gating, shows veins as well as arteries, and can be performed in an interleaved manner to avoid registration errors due to patient motion.
(9) In those cupboards our family still existed, man and woman still mingled, children were still interleaved with their parents, intimacy survived.
(10) The lamina fusca was composed of numerous interleaved processes of fibroblastic and pigmented cells and contained tight junctions between fibroblastic cell processes that were predominantly discontinuous, as well as numerous fenestrations through the attenuated cell processes.
(11) Additional frames can be interleaved by repeating the sequence with an ECG-gated delay.
(12) We report a method for mapping apparent diffusion coefficients using two interleaved CPMG sequences.
(13) Standard single-shot and interleaved multishot blipped EPI acquisitions were considered, assuming either high gradient strength and slew rates or standard gradient strength and slew rates.
(14) The technique is based on interleaved spiral k-space scanning and forms a cardiac-gated image in 20 heartbeats.
(15) The left eye was moved passively at a fixed amplitude and velocity while varying the movement onset time with respect to the visual stimulus onset in a randomized and interleaved fashion.
(16) In twenty-four penetrations, eighteen of which were placed as perpendicular as possible to the surface of the cortex, orientation preference was assessed at regular intervals both qualitatively and using a randomly interleaved quantitative technique.
(17) Also, interleaved between the numbered chapters of Shadow's adventures, are unnumbered chapters headed "Coming to America", in which we get yarns of how travellers to America might have brought their own peculiar spirits and legends to this new land.
(18) This simultaneous multislice acquisition method has been implemented for multislice spin-echo imaging, and the results are compared with those for a standard interleaved multislice method.
(19) Spikes from successive interleaved inspiratory and expiratory intervals were analyzed separately.
(20) Flow-compensated and uncompensated measurements are acquired in an interleaved fashion using limited flip angles and gradient refocusing.