What's the difference between bookholder and bookman?

Bookholder


Definition:

  • (n.) A prompter at a theater.
  • (n.) A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After that, bookholders became a bit of an obsession with me, and I had the idea of designing one to look like a deckchair.
  • (2) I went to a physiotherapist, who recommended using a bookholder to prop up my book and help correct my posture.
  • (3) Clearly I had not invented the bookholder, so my protection was limited to the design.

Bookman


Definition:

  • (n.) A studious man; a scholar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ionic conductance is represented by the Goldman constant field equation (Civan, M.M., and R.J. Bookman.
  • (2) After several rejections, his Man Must Live was published in 1947 by African Bookman, one of few publishers available to black writers at the time.
  • (3) In particular, we examine a principal cell apical Na permeability inversely dependent on luminal and intracellular Na concentrations (M. M. Civan and R. J. Bookman.
  • (4) It is based on a survey designed to evaluate the monthly publication of the library, the Bookman, and to determine the response of health science faculty to historical essays as well as to other sections of the publication.
  • (5) The afternoon service at Temple Beth Am in Sotloff’s hometown of Pinecrest will be open to the public, Rabbi Terry Bookman said.

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