What's the difference between bookshelves and library?

Bookshelves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Bookshelf

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bookshelves, wood, rubber gloves and bottles of cooking gas were on it.
  • (2) Expansive open-plan floors are once again linked with weaving flights of escalators, only here they are suspended precipitously through dramatic interlocking rotundas, which climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves, to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium above.
  • (3) This is important as the diagnostic scheme is not a theoretical work which will lay gathering dust on the bookshelves in medical libraries, it is a practical tool which forms the basis for the categorization of 'the insane'.
  • (4) Custom-made to blend in with the Victorian wooden benches, it looks like a tea-trolley and is almost as unobtrusive as the small grey cameras perched on the bookshelves.
  • (5) A picture of Billie Holiday (visible) and a red-black painting of Brazil (out of sight) are on the only wall not covered with bookshelves.
  • (6) Have a last drink at the Golem bar on the other side of the Reeperbahn then climb down the secret stairway behind the bookshelves to the club below.
  • (7) Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian If the bookshelves were not an example of excess, what would he consider an excessive claim?
  • (8) 2002 Counterpunch article On his writing room's bookshelves: "Most of them, however, are filled with the foreign editions of my books.
  • (9) Well, I don’t want to see a branch of Paperchase thrown up between the bookshelves and the traditional rack of filthy old CDs.
  • (10) Dalyell was reported to have claimed £18,000 for three bookshelves just before he retired from the Commons.
  • (11) It's not the golden stone Cotswold communities with their easily afforded, well-stocked bookshelves that will suffer, it is places such as Tuffley and Cinderford and Brockworth, whose home link and share-a-book mobile library services look after residents in old people's homes and disadvantaged children under six.
  • (12) Miles of bookshelves towering up on nine levels, with another below ground, are ready and waiting to receive nearly a million books.
  • (13) Four months ago, Louise Bagshawe was a household name only in households whose bookshelves featured novels with titles such as Passion, Glamour and Glitz.
  • (14) Ihave bookshelves of reports detailing the unfair treatment many NHS Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff receive in recruitment, promotion, training, discipline and pay.
  • (15) More than five million copies of Xi’s The Governance of China now adorn bookshelves and coffee tables around the globe, if Communist party propagandists are to be believed, in languages including Russian, Cambodian, Portuguese, Arabic and Nepali.
  • (16) Book lovers The theory is you can tell a lot about someone from their bookshelves, and a site such as Alikewise is the online equivalent.
  • (17) 'Escalators climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium.'
  • (18) Standing in front of wall-to-wall bookshelves, twice his height, carrying only Sherlock Holmes books, Betzner explained how BSI is different from other fan groups while a man clad in a trench coat, spectacles and a flat cap hovered curiously close by.
  • (19) The bookshelves are crammed with law books in English and Arabic, the ashtray is full, and his lean frame is hunched over a computer as messages of support come in from Libya and abroad.
  • (20) The rooms had many bookshelves and comfortable reading chairs, but the sleeping space was two woollen sleeping bags embroidered with the words meum and tuum – mine and yours – on a sort of leather shelf.

Library


Definition:

  • (n.) A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.
  • (n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
  • (2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
  • (3) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (4) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
  • (5) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
  • (6) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
  • (7) However, the plasmid libraries for chromosomes 1, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, and 20 hybridize weakly or not at all near the centromeres of the target chromosome types.
  • (8) A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1.
  • (9) The decision, announced earlier this week, will see the region’s libraries reduced from 51 branches to 35.
  • (10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (11) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
  • (12) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.
  • (13) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
  • (14) Two genes were isolated from a library of total plasmid DNA of one of the mutants, 3F1.
  • (15) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
  • (16) Three independent clones with overlapping inserts of 6.8, 10.5, and 11 kilobases (kb) were isolated from S. cerevisiae genomic libraries in YEp24 (2 micron) and YCp50 (CEN) plasmids.
  • (17) However, when using DNA libraries with large cloned inserts, this sequence characterization is not immediately practicable.
  • (18) Programs to search for patterns in individual sequences and libraries of sequences are described.
  • (19) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
  • (20) The library was screened by plaque hybridization to identify phage clones containing the unamplified 10.5-kilobase DNA sequence.

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