What's the difference between bookshelf and bookstand?

Bookshelf


Definition:

  • (n.) A shelf to hold books.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His paperback, PWA: Looking Aids in the Face, is one of the most inspiring books I have on my bookshelf.
  • (2) I have a photo of him on my bookshelf, blowing a raspberry, wearing a Stetson and sticking two fingers up.
  • (3) At one point it looks as if he's tumbling backwards, but he defies gravity and makes it to the bookshelf, propelled by simple belief.
  • (4) When I heard that she had died, I promptly went back to my bookshelf and spent my Saturday night re-reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, and it was, if anything, even more wonderful than I remembered.
  • (5) Abdel Fattah believes her son will return to the family's flat, down an unpaved back alley in Cairo's Zeitoun district, where his framed portrait sits on top of a bookshelf, when he completes his sentence.
  • (6) Don't get me wrong: I would like more than anyone to see the report consigned, as the learned judge feared, to a middle bookshelf in an academic's office.
  • (7) The British public is accustomed to the sight of celebrity chefs competing for column inches, TV airtime and prime bookshelf space, but yesterday new battlelines were drawn as domestic goddess Nigella Lawson launched her iPhone app, putting her in direct competition with Jamie Oliver.
  • (8) Brandis – who spent more than $15,000 of taxpayer’s money to build a new bookshelf in his parliament house office in 2014 – said he did not believe that the science of climate change was settled but he knew how to follow a logical argument.
  • (9) "I think it's a great delivery method for all kinds of authors and artists to explore and be seen in, not the bookshelf of a Walmart that the old guidelines turned it into."
  • (10) An occupational health "bookshelf" reference list is appended.
  • (11) On the right, on a bookshelf, was a framed copy of Francis’s letter.
  • (12) Have an incredibly pricey (£1,295) bookshelf on me, Ann Clwyd.
  • (13) You can now find an Ikea glass, bookshelf or shower curtain in practically every British home.
  • (14) He doesn’t, even though he’s just finished a nice bookshelf for his London friend.
  • (15) The writer Somerset Maugham, who in 1949 announced "the subjunctive mood is in its death throes", might be surprised to see my son Freddie's bookshelf, which contains If I Were a Pig … (Jellycat Books, 2008).
  • (16) The brown-skinned glamour dolls like the one on my bookshelf are always missing.
  • (17) Applying its much-praised “documentary theatre” technique – where topics are developed through intense journalistic-style investigation – the group started off “by asking which of us had read it and who had a copy lurking at the back of a bookshelf or in their attic”, Haug said.
  • (18) Praise God, I live a stable life, and God has blessed me with a pious wife, and she has blessed me with a son who I gave your name, Usamah, and a daughter who I named after the mother, Khayriyah.” Osama bin Laden's bookshelf: Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward, and jihad Read more Khadijh, one of Bin Laden’s daughters, describes the difficulties of communicating with the world’s most wanted man.
  • (19) Pete wondered if he'd stumbled into a parallel universe when he saw a copy of On Being A Jewish Feminist on my bookshelf.
  • (20) But this relative impotence is no excuse for failing to hammer home the point that our universities are being forced down, in the title of a famous book by Friedrich Hayek (perhaps on the bookshelf of the higher education minister, Jo Johnson?

Bookstand


Definition:

  • (n.) A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.
  • (n.) A stand to hold books for reading or reference.

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