(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.
Upright
Definition:
(a.) In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
(a.) Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.
(a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.
(a.) Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
(n.) Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.
Example Sentences:
(1) A significant effect for pirenzepine was seen for episodes greater than 5 min (t = 2.61, P = 0.023) and a trend towards significance was seen for total (upright and supine positions combined) percent time of reflux (t = 2.13, P = 0.055).
(2) Nine patients were admitted to the hospital, placed on a diet containing 150 mEq sodium, and studied for periods of 4 hours, on different days, in the following conditions: (1) supine position, (2) upright posture (UP), (3) UP after 10 mg domperidone, intravenously in bolus, and (4) UP after 3 days of domperidone, 30 mg orally.
(3) Mean arterial pressure rose in upright posture in many cases, but its changes (percentage) showed no correlation with the changes (percentage) in GFR.
(4) The veteran almost had one with the best effort of the first half, a typical drive from the edge of the Stoke penalty area that shaved Thomas Sorensen's left-hand upright, though that possibly said more about the quality of the attacking play in the first half than the dynamism of Scholes's attempt.
(5) Possible mesial root extrusion was found in 60.0% of the uprighted molars.
(6) There was a marked increase in forskolin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in the upright posture in both elderly and young subjects.
(7) In 7 multiple pregnancies the changes in maternal and fetal cardiac-circulation parameters resulting from a passive change in presentation from left lateral to steady upright were measured for the duration of pregnancy and the puerperium and compared with corresponding data from a single-fetus collective.
(8) Prediction of change by deviation of the lateral asymmetry index on ISIS examination were compared with measured change on standard upright roentgenograms.
(9) The upright-tilting test was considered positive if syncope developed in association with hypotension or bradycardia, or both.
(10) Aggressive behavior was evoked by introducing a group-housed male mouse (intruder) into the home cage of the isolated or nonisolated mouse (resident).d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, methylphenidate, cocaine, and L-dopa decreased attack and threat behavior by resident mice, the isolates requiring 2--4 times higher drug doses for the antiaggressive effects than the nonisolates, d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate caused intruder mice to be more frequently attacked by their non-treated resident opponents, to escape more often, to assume the defensive upright posture less, and to move about more often.
(11) The numerals were either upright, or inverted, or rotated perpendicular to the arm axis.
(12) An upright chest radiograph revealed a left hydropneumothorax.
(13) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
(14) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
(15) Estimation of the microcapillary flow was made both after supine resting and on standing upright.
(16) By changing the monkey's body position (upright, ear-down, supine), postrotatory nystagmus was elicited in the horizontal, vertical, or torsional direction.
(17) The gigantic lintels that bridge the uprights were also elaborately worked to even their size and height.
(18) The role of the vestibulo-spinal system involved in the maintenance of upright standing posture was studied by a time series analysis with a 5-dimensional feedback model.
(19) Overnight supine and 4-h upright PRA, plasma aldosterone, and 24-h urinary tetrahydroaldosterone (THA) and aldosterone secretion rates (ASR) were measured.
(20) The exercise test protocol consisted of pseudorandom binary sequences (PRBS) of workload (W) performed on a bicycle ergometer in the upright position (20 W - 80 W, 15 bits, 30 s per bit; the sequence was repeated three times).