(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.
Livre
Definition:
(n.) A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.
Example Sentences:
(1) livR was identified earlier as a regulatory gene affecting high-affinity transport of branched-chain amino acids through the LIV-I and LS transport systems, encoded by the livJ and livKHMGF operons.
(2) A previously described mutation in a leucine-responsive trans-acting factor, LivR (J. J. Anderson, S. C. Quay, and D. L. Oxender, J. Bacteriol.
(3) Mutations in livR affected the regulation of ilvIH, an operon known to be controlled by lrp, and mutations in lrp affected the regulation of the LIV-I and LS transport systems.
(4) Even a parricide could buy forgiveness at God's tribunal at one ducat; four livres, eight carlines."
(5) Absolution for incest was afforded at 36 livres, three ducats.
(6) These results suggest that the livR gene encodes a repressor which plays a role in the regulation of expression of the livJ and the livK transport genes.
(7) Two mutant loci resulting in derepression of, respectively, the L-leucine-specific transport system (lstR) and both the leucine-specific and the general branched-chain amino acid transport LIV-I systems (livR) were mapped by conjugation and transduction.
(8) "Hachette Livre considers that its unilateral decision to enter into agency agreements with Apple and other e-retailers was in the best longer-term interests of the whole book universe including authors, readers and booksellers of all kinds.
(9) We investigated the relationship between two regulatory genes, livR and lrp, that map near min 20 on the Escherichia coli chromosome.
(10) The Amazon inquiry comes two years after the commission took issue with Apple and its deals with five publishers: Penguin Random House, Hachette Livres, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Georg von Holtzbrinck Verlagsgruppe.
(11) Both livR and lstR were found to be closely linked to aroA at min 20 on the Escherichia coli genetic map.
(12) The possibility that LivR and Lrp are allelic is discussed.
(13) The EC said in its official journal today [PDF] that it had found in a "preliminary assessment" that the publishers Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster, and the retailer Apple, had, by "jointly" moving to an agency model for ebooks, "engaged in a concerted practice with the object of raising retail prices of ebooks" or preventing ebook discounting in Europe, in breach of European law.
(14) The livR gene encoding the repressor for high-affinity branched-chain amino acid transport in Escherichia coli has been cloned from a library prepared from the episome F106.
(15) Hachette Livre believes that a settlement with the EC is the best way to continue to achieve that goal."
(16) "Hachette Livre's main commitment has always been publishing great books and nurturing and supporting its authors and readers.
(17) Thus, poisoning, for example, was absolved for 11 ducats, six livres tournois.
(18) However, an increase in the rate of transport or in the steady-state intracellular level of amino acids in the livR strain cannot completely account for this sensitivity.
(19) The commission has been investigating the publishers Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, together with Apple , over "a suspected concerted practice aimed at raising retail prices for ebooks in the European Economic Area", in breach of EU antitrust rules.
(20) In strains constitutive for the leucine biosynthetic operon, transhydrogenase was repressed by leucine but in strains livR and lst R, with leucine transport resistant to leucine repression, transhydrogenase was not repressed by leucine.