(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.
Storybook
Definition:
(n.) A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has elevated what Americans see as possible for ourselves by offering a snapshot of a storybook lifestyle that somehow feels attainable.” Oprah Winfrey He says: “I don’t think I’m the gift of the world – I just do what I do, and I love it and I’ve been lucky.
(2) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
(3) Credibility ratings were lowest for actors, singers, and sports figures as sources of AIDS information for Hispanics and for illustrated storybooks (fotonovelas) as a channel for the dissemination of information.
(4) This study examined the frequency and types of questions that a mother used during storybook reading sessions with her 3-year-old twin daughters.
(5) It consists of nine unique early 19th-century storybook cottages (pictured) designed by John Nash as homes for retired staff from the castle estate.
(6) Unlike Teletubbies, which featured sentient vacuum cleaners and characters with TV screens on their abdomens, this show doesn't rub our faces in the fact that we are slackly farming our children out to the electric babysitter; instead, it has a faintly folky, storybook quality.
(7) #storybook #RE2PECT #FairWellCaptain September 26, 2014 Bryce Harper (@Bharper3407) Not a better place to do it and not a better person for it to happen to...Hats off to you #Captain !
(8) Following acquisition of each subcomponent, generalization to natural context and storybook questions was assessed; additional probes were conducted to assess responding over time and whether acquisition of responses to questions promoted question-asking skills.
(9) But it's about more than just colour: other visual motifs include long tracking shots, 90-degree whip pans and tilts, rostrum shots over miniature models, intertitles ( font: Futura ), montages, storybook stylings, and an almost Kubrickian obsession with symmetry and camera movement.
(10) Kobe Bryant scores 60 points in storybook farewell victory Read more In my wife’s wedding vows two years ago, she referred to herself as the “Shaq to your Kobe.” It’s a curious thing to say when considering the relationship between the two basketball players in question and specifically Kobe Bryant.
(11) Of course, storybook grandparents including the grandfathers of Heidi, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and the Box Car Children, never seem to resent having to act as surrogate parents.
(12) "It's about giving people that fantasy; that storybook experience.
(13) The outlines of bare trees faintly visible like an illustration from an English storybook.
(14) Scope has produced a number of storybooks written with or by disabled people: Wizzy and the Street , Fun in the Sun , and Celine's New Splints .
(15) I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” The comments churned as a problem for Biden all year, prompting Obama to come to his defense repeatedly, including in a December debate.
(16) Even in flamingo documentary The Crimson Wing , natural predators such as hyenas and storks are coloured as "storybook witches".
(17) Among the many twee exhibits at the museum are over 500 2D and 3D images of Santa, a mock storybook village depicting Christmas fairytales and Toyland Train Mountain, a three-tier, 30ft wide electric train set that encircles a tree decorated with over 3,000 festive ornaments.
(18) "I don't think he was aware of the storybook quality.
(19) On Friday night the talented screenwriter, who seemingly penned so much of Gerrard’s storybook Anfield career before cruelly abandoning him at the end, was back at his side again.
(20) "The creation of children's storybooks is an excellent revision exercise, but not the primary method by which I teach any topic whatsoever," Tarr writes.