(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.
Leger
Definition:
(n.) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
(n.) A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government.
(n.) A ledger.
(a.) Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.
(a.) Light; slender; slim; trivial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philophthalmus gralli (Mathis and Leger, 1910) was introduced into the San Antonio, Texas area within the last 25-30 years from an unknown foreign source.
(2) The study quite specifically deals with histamine-legeration provoked by the direct pharmacodynamic action of drug substances, in particular those which are used in anaesthesiology.
(3) beauchampi Leger and Duboscq, 1917 was studied from the ventral digestive epithelium of the hepatic region of Glossobalanus minutus (Enteropneusta).
(4) Only an exclusive cadre of women can pull off a Herve Leger bandage dress on the red carpet without looking like a lumpy frosting tube, and it would seem that Lululemon ascribes to the same goal in the yoga studio.
(5) The St Leger at Doncaster, which is owned by ARC (formed recently by the merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing), the only obvious omission.
(6) There exists, in the anterior part of the intestine (pancreas, duodenum, stomach, ileum) a system of neuro-humoral cells derived embryologically from the neural crest (Weichert 1967, Gorin and Leger 1969).
(7) The primary hosts of its species, the best known of which are C. simplex Leger 1904 and C. bigenetica Wacha and Christiansen 1982, are carnivorous reptiles and birds of prey.
(8) Since the 2014 conference is being held this year in Ed Miliband’s backyard, on sun-soaked Doncaster racecourse, the development is doubly tragic: Ukip activists sober a few feet from where the world’s oldest classic horse race – the St Leger – was run just days ago.
(9) In conclusion, it must be recognized that, as Lucien Leger (39) wrote, "by creating a new physiopathology, portal decompression raises as many questions as it solves."
(10) This paper describes a new species of trypanosome, Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) heliosciuri, from Heliosciurus gambianus gambianus, and gives a detailed description of T. (Herpetosoma) xeri Leger and Baury 1922, from Euxerus erythropus erythropus, all from Senegal, West Africa.
(11) In order to validate the "Maximal Multistage 20 Meter Shuttle Run Test" by Leger and Lambert (1982) (20-MST) as an estimate of maximal aerobic power (VO2max) and to compare the results of this test with the results of a 6 min endurance run, 82 subjects (41 boys and 41 girls) aged 12-14 performed the 20-MST and the 6 min endurance run, and had their VO2max directly measured during maximal treadmill running.
(12) These problems are illustrated by replication and re-analysis, using new data, of the well known study by Cochrane, St Leger and Moore.
(13) An oblique pelvis is a certain, a reduced angle of Leger a probable influence of lumbosciatic pain.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duque-Gonzalez family will meet with Pope Francis in New York on 25 September 2015 Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Duque said his family is in the US now, and in Mexico he would only find unemployment and poverty.
(15) Douglas unleashed another off-color remark, telling the audience that when Steven Soderbergh first talked to him about playing Liberace during the filming of another movie, “I thought maybe I was mincing a little bit in the part that I was doing.” I can't tell if Twitter is really mad at him or not, but here's an unscientific roundup of the opinions I've seen floating around the ether: Stewart Legere (@StewartLegere) Mincing around my apartment thinking about Michael Douglas .
(16) Subspecific designations are given to distinctive populations parasitizing different host species: P. minasense minasense is recognized from the type host, Mabuya mabouya of Brasil; P. minasense carinii Leger and Mouzels, 1917 from Iguana iguana of coastal South America; P. minasense anolisi subsp.
(17) Sell in May and go away, don’t come back until St Leger Day.
(18) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Finally, after a further round of screening, the family was accepted as refugees by the US – a country they knew little about.
(19) It looks a bigger gamble than a flutter on the St Leger.
(20) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Abdishakur Mohamed Noor, a homeless 55-year-old from Mogadishu, said he had been sleeping at the mosque at the time the men were arrested.