(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.
Scrapbook
Definition:
(n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) To help, Rob, a professional graffiti artist and qualified instructor, showed me his scrapbook.
(2) Ronald Lewis finds it hard to believe it is 10 years since the water came, even though the newspaper clippings he hoarded in a scrapbook and pinned to a wall are yellowed now by age.
(3) We need to help children in care treasure the objects that tell their life story Read more These books, a cross between photo album, scrapbook and folder, are a statutory requirement for all children going into adoption placements .
(4) One straight out of the Roberto Carlos scrapbook, that.
(5) Before the revolution, it was fashionable among the upper classes to assemble so-called knigi dlya dam ( Ladies’ Books) – a kind of bawdy scrapbook.
(6) The sheer beauty of much of this material, along with the scrapbooks and the fanzines, immortalises the fans as much as the actors, offering an illuminating model of the modern cult of celebrity, where the ostensible object of adoration or fascination is merely a pretext for the creativity and projection of the fan.
(7) Designed by LA-based artist Alex Israel and Brian Roettinger, the artwork mimics a collection of scrapbook stickers, each referencing visual tropes from Duran Duran’s past.
(8) Scrapbook, with its boxy format, looks a lot like social media site Pinterest.
(9) The poem about Brearley, the memoir of Mac, the loyalty to his friends from Hackney Downs (he is still, 50 years on, in regular touch with three of them, even though two live in Canada and the other in Australia), the Wisdens and scrapbooks and numerous postcards in his study are all redolent of a man for whom the past is ever present.
(10) He designed his own board game, as well as "Mark Twain's Patent Self-Pasting Scrapbook", which sounds like something the Duke and Dauphin in Huckleberry Finn might sell.
(11) The first chance, a rebound screwed wide after Alexis Sánchez’s header was clawed on to the post, was not one for the scrapbook.
(12) Scrapbook pictures that give a bright glimpse of Anne Frank's life before her family went into hiding are among a wealth of unpublished material made public for Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday.
(13) The scrapbooks, thought to have been made by her father Otto, are held in the archives of the Anne Frank Fund and their release, with rare film footage, letters and pictures, is intended to give a broader picture of the Frank family.
(14) Bungling was uncovered by sharp-eyed Political Scrapbook : in Shapps's vicious little campaign his photo of a perfect blond hardworking family is the same picture used in ads for cod-liver oil, a Spanish dentist, a building firm and home schooling for Christian fundamentalists.
(15) But her new blog, Romy & The Bunnies – part diary, part family scrapbook, heavily accessorised with stuffed rabbits and flashbacks to her chic pregnant mother in 1980s Paris – is fast picking up a following.
(16) Some of the drawing and annotation functions within Samsung's apps such as S Note, SketchBook and Scrapbook could be useful for someone who can draw well, but they're lost on me.
(17) • Scrapbook lets you circle content you like, such as a YouTube video or a news article.
(18) The online scrapbook site Pinterest is about to embark on a new round of financing that could value the company at up to $2.5bn (£1.6bn).
(19) In his office, with its quotes from Steve Jobs on the walls, and his old scrapbooks and journals on the shelves, and its framed Time magazine with "Hunting Joseph Kony" on the cover, Jason Russell still veers between overconfidence and a sense of abject failure.
(20) Between Scrapbook, My Magazine, Air Command and dozens of other functions, it might take even the most experienced smartphone user several hours to figure out.