(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.
Playbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company effectively put itself up for sale in August amid a heavy losses from its failed PlayBook tablet and a decline in its handset business and subscriber numbers and revenues.
(2) But his capacity to digest playbooks is unrivalled – allowing Manning to lead the Colts offence in a way quite unlike other NFL quarterbacks: operating almost exclusively without a huddle and calling his plays at the line.
(3) And there she was in the autumn, playing beautiful damaged goods alongside the likes of Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook , the year's best rom-com, and our fourth best film of the year.
(4) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
(5) Clothes worn by Jennifer Lawrence while filming her Oscar-winning role in Silver Linings Playbook have sold for an impressive $12,000 at auction , confirming the young actor's newfound Hollywood cache.
(6) After tensions erupted between the campaigns on Monday, Cooper took issue with a source in Burnham’s campaign for suggesting that her tactics were “straight out of the Ed Balls playbook”.
(7) Another potential Oscar-hoover is Silver Linings Playbook from David O Russell.
(8) Therefore, we still have to wait and see if this is a real case or not.” Earlier this year, in a response straight from the Blatter playbook, he also led the charge against “racist” media allegations of bribery against the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid.“We will face all these racist attempts and attacks and will stand with Qatar,” he declared.
(9) Last year 12 Years a Slave trod this path ; in the past Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and Argo (which was runner-up to Silver Linings Playbook at Toronto) also followed suit.
(10) As Abbott and others see it, social conservatives in the UK have been borrowing from the tactical playbook of the US Christian right, establishing a network of organisations across a range of fronts and rebranding their traditional "pro-life" language (Dorries and Field's campaign to change the law on abortion is called "right to know").
(11) Cooper was Oscar-nominated for his acting work on 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and last year’s American Hustle , both of which were directed by David O Russell.
(12) "Twitter will learn from Facebook's flawed playbook and do the opposite," said PrivCo's chief executive, Sam Hamadeh.
(13) After 12 days of wide release, David O Russell's latest has grossed an impressive £6.78m, which compares with £2.71m for Silver Linings Playbook at the same stage of its run.
(14) "His comments about clerical sex abuse [in the interview] make it clear that he is using the same tired and irrelevant playbook the bishops have worn out over the past few years," wrote priest and victims' supporter Tom Doyle in the National Catholic Reporter.
(15) Since filming last year's blockbuster dystopian action movie the 23-year-old star has picked up the Academy Award for best actress for her work in the acclaimed David O Russell comedy drama Silver Linings Playbook and risen to the top of the Hollywood A-list.
(16) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
(17) The incredible success of Isis in both Syria and Iraq has more to do with the Syrian civil war and Iraq’s divisive politics than anything else, but the core ideology of the group is straight from the bin Laden playbook.
(18) This represents a remarkable success for Russell, who pulled off the same four-way feat last year with his romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook .
(19) When assailed, Trump is known to favour a playbook of hitting back harder, even against seemingly no-win targets such as Khizr and Ghazala Khan , the parents of a US soldier killed in Iraq; Alicia Machado , a Miss Universe winner; and Meryl Streep , the Oscar-winning actor.
(20) Her three Oscar nominations to date and a win last year for indie romance Silver Linings Playbook have made her one of the most powerful actors in Hollywood at a remarkably young age.