(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.
Handbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 1996, the party's policy handbook stated that the industry was "of vital importance to the nation's economic performance".
(2) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
(3) But he has proposed that the contract being negotiated identify all school employees as ministers of the church, a change gay rights groups said would put teachers who do not adhere to the beliefs in the handbook at risk of dismissal.
(4) If a general practitioner can remember the few drugs in clinical practice with a narrow therapeutic index, he can consult a handbook before anything else is prescribed.
(5) As these are now being finalized and not yet approved for release, INR can only highlight the contents of this concise, authoritative document, which should become an indispensable handbook on AIDS for nurses and other health personnel when available.
(6) With the death toll across Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone topping 5,000 this month, everything from equipment to medical trials to psychology handbooks is being tested, upgraded and refashioned.
(7) At 16 and 17 there are two computer game manuals – Minecraft: Redstone Handbook and Minecraft: Essential Handbook .
(8) It added: “A review of declarations of interest confirmed the CoG did not disclose these on the [2014] annual declaration.” In a letter dated 8 March, the government’s Education Funding Agency said there had been “serious breaches of the academies financial handbook, including serious concerns about financial management, control and governance”.
(9) The International Business Times, Davis and Uzac’s news site, was also described in the handbook as an “Olivet ministry affiliate”.
(10) The authors are aware of other phencyclidine-related hospital admissions but could find no information on phencyclidine in recently published handbooks on drug abuse.
(11) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
(12) The Danish Society for Patient Safety has produced a handbook to increase patient involvement in care, which has been distributed to one in 10 of all households in Denmark.
(13) I don’t mean the Oftsed inspection handbook, which anyone can download from the internet.
(14) It became the handbook of the anti- globalisation protests, and inspired two Radiohead albums .
(15) Data from the literature for solutions, blood, normal tissue, and cancerous tissue are investigated, and predicted fractions are consistent with tissue compositional information available in handbooks.
(16) Psychiatrists in some countries including Britain use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) published by the World Health Organisation or a combination of both handbooks.
(17) "It's incredibly depressing," said Arthur Raney, a professor of communication at Florida State University and author of The Handbook of Sports and Media .
(18) In a shifting world where political disillusionment is the norm, Brand offers a hopeful handbook of new ways of thinking.
(19) "The Oncogene Handbook," Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp 307-325, 1988; Sonnenberg et al., Neuron 3:359-365, 1989).
(20) There appears to be some confusion over terms used in the handbook issued to medical practitioners.