(n.) A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.
Example Sentences:
(1) The significance of bookplates as documents for history of medicine is illustrated by reference to bookplates of famous dermatologists: Conrad Heinrich Fuchs, William Erasmus Wilson, Moriz Kaposi, Filipp Josef Pick, Ludwig Waelsch, Edvard Ehlers.
Guidebook
Definition:
(n.) A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sir Chris took the side of those who backed the zipwire as a novel and exciting way of attracting new and younger visitors to the fells which William Wordsworth and the 20th century guidebook master Alfred Wainwright trod.
(2) There have been two Lonely Planet TV commissions, Year of Adventures and Best Parks Ever, while the guidebook operation has performed "creditably" against rivals.
(3) There’s also a supermarket, a good camping supply shop and a bookshop that’s well stocked with maps and local guidebooks.
(4) A guidebook for its moderation staff recently became public, revealing that images of breastfeeding would be banned if nipples were exposed, but deep flesh wounds and crushed heads would be OK.
(5) I read the first one because I took it for science fiction, rather than a guidebook to changing my ways.
(6) However much the Asian Network needs to be improved (and better managed), it is in theory an example of the sort of public service broadcasting the BBC ought to be doing; no one could say that about a stable of travel guidebooks.
(7) The publisher, which produces the London listings magazine and a series of Time Out-branded guidebooks, has entered a 30-day consultation with staff and the National Union of Journalists over the planned cuts.
(8) "When we were going through all this, we really needed a guidebook.
(9) Nowadays, while a modern Benin City has risen on the same plain, the ruins of its former, grander namesake are not mentioned in any tourist guidebook to the area.
(10) Lonely Planet publishes around 500 travel-related titles, including guidebooks and phrasebooks, as well as TV shows and programming such as Lonely Planet Six Degrees on Discovery networks.
(11) Ditchfield has lectured about the medicinal properties of cannabis to the Royal College of GPs in London and to final-year pharmacy students at Liverpool John Moores University, and, with Mel Thomas, has written The Medical Cannabis Guidebook: The Definitive Guide to Using and Growing Medical Marijuana, due to be published later this year.
(12) I’m not a naturist, but our family is certainly not prim when it comes to nudity, and I have authored a guidebook about wild swimming .
(13) Information that could be presented more appropriately in written format was gathered into a supplemental guidebook.
(14) In 2007, his second year in office, the National Post disclosed that Team Harper had drawn up a guidebook for the Conservative chairs of parliamentary committees, advising them how to use delays, obstruction and confusion to block difficult inquiries.
(15) Then we climb (as the guidebooks have it) to the Place du Tertre, where, in honour of the great 20th-century modernists who painted around here, professional sketchers will render your head and shoulders in a style suggesting those painters had never lived.
(16) Bradbury has also presented Wainwright's Walks for the BBC, a series based on the guidebooks of the famous Lakeland walker Alfred Wainwright, along with presenting Watchdog.
(17) Cycle hire Hot Pursuit Cycles, Totnes, 01803 865174, hotpursuit-cycles.co.uk Jack Thurston is author of the Lost Lanes series of cycling guidebooks, published by Wild Things Publishing .
(18) For now, this town of 80,000 people doesn't even merit a mention in my guidebook.
(19) His “Stonehengiana” – as he terms it – ranges from lurid pink pottery adorned with a picture of the great circle to the earliest guidebooks with lovely black and white illustrations but some, frankly, odd conclusions about the history of the site.
(20) This article will appear early next year as Chapter 2 in the Primer on Clinical Indicator Development and Application, a Joint Commission guidebook on clinical indicators.