(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.
Reserve
Definition:
(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.
(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
(n.) That which is excepted; exception.
(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
(n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(2) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(3) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
(4) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.
(5) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(6) We conclude that, whereas an identical protocol of acute ND had no significant effects on diaphragm muscle structure and function in adult rats, adolescent animals exhibit significantly less nutritional reserve.
(7) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(8) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(9) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(10) That, however, is reserved for the most serious cases and the indications are that a fine is the likely outcome.
(11) Overall, the differences in skeletal muscle energy state during rest and the corresponding changes in concentration of high-energy phosphates during mild exercise suggest a very limited energy reserve in the hypotonic muscle of VLBW infants.
(12) Parenteral cyclophosphamide or corticosteroid pulses should be reserved for cases with vasculitis or refractoriness to conventional drugs.
(13) Calcium supplementation should be reserved for patients with clear clinical signs of hypocalcemia and dialysate calcium should be adjusted to prevent excessive positive calcium balance.
(14) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(15) Spiramycin, though not constantly effective, is reserved for immunosuppressed patients.
(16) It suggested that the decrease of pituitary reserve might probably be the pathogenesis of Kidney deficiency.
(17) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(18) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
(20) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.