What's the difference between notebook and pocketbook?

Notebook


Definition:

  • (n.) A book in which notes or memorandums are written.
  • (n.) A book in which notes of hand are registered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (2) Only Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union , had a slim notebook (shut) and pen.
  • (3) He opened a small notebook as a demonstration of how the al-Qaida justice system had resolved 42 cases in a fortnight.
  • (4) He also unveiled a new ultra-thin notebook, the MacBook Air, but Apple is no longer best known for its computers.
  • (5) The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook.
  • (6) What I like best is hearing that The Golden Notebook is on reading lists for political or history classes.
  • (7) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
  • (8) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .
  • (9) There's a squeeze ball, with "Red Ed – the unions' squeeze" on it, some "guess who" cards (see 3.32pm and you'll get the general idea) and "Ed Miliband's detailed plan for reducing the deficit" (a blank notebook).
  • (10) In my handbag, there’s generally a book, a spare book, and a notebook.
  • (11) He had written the name "Ian" in the top left hand corner of some of the pages in his notebooks which contained that information.
  • (12) The disgraced former MSP has instructed his lawyers to pursue the NoW and the convicted private investigator Glenn Mulcaire for breach of privacy after details about his home address and mobile phone were found in two of Mulcaire's notebooks in a police raid four years ago.
  • (13) Here was a woman, "dismal, drab, embarrassing," sodden with "self-pity," who in the Golden Notebook had single-handedly set back the women's movement "a good long way".
  • (14) I loved her earlier writing about her life in Africa, which was relaxed and vivid, and which I recognised again when The Golden Notebook 's story took it to Africa, but when it moved to London the style became clumsier.
  • (15) Major works: The Grass is Singing, 1950; In Pursuit of the English,1960; The Golden Notebook, 1962; The Memoirs Of A Survivor, 1975; The Good Terrorist, 1985; Under my Skin, 1994.
  • (16) At King's College London, where Jarman was a student, immersive exhibition Pandemonium includes rarely seen Super-8 films and elaborate notebooks, while Tate Modern is screening his final film, Blue.
  • (17) I remember being so stunned by the figure I scribbled it at the top of my notebook, as a reminder to ask him about it.
  • (18) In my notebook, I map out the contours of his lecture in a series of headings.
  • (19) The market for PCs (desktops and fixed-keyboard notebooks) will be flat, at best, but Microsoft – and computer makers – have a lot staked on "convertibles" with detachable keyboards, and touchscreen laptops.
  • (20) He and Doris Lessing will be discussing The Golden Notebook on Wednesday January 17 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1 at 7pm.

Pocketbook


Definition:

  • (n.) A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Women did not vote with their ladyparts, they voted with their pocketbooks like they always do".
  • (2) To cover themselves, they wrote a log of the incident from their pocketbook notes, and very soon afterwards emailed it up through the chain of command at the Metropolitan police to a sergeant, an inspector and – it is understood – even higher up the ranks.
  • (3) But large-scale studies of class mobility show that the forces that move people out of poverty are more diffuse than can fit in any pocketbook.
  • (4) Nurses have always been regarded as a major drain on the hospital's pocketbook, rather than as a revenue-generating resource.
  • (5) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
  • (6) My dad had a wonderful collection of soft-cover pocketbooks that were dramatically illustrated with film noir-looking artwork on the covers.
  • (7) These are critical pocketbook issues for millions of American families, and thus they are critical issues for the health and competitiveness of the American economy.” A question from Becky Quick, one of the debate’s three moderators, for Texas senator Ted Cruz provided the night’s only discussion of either issue.
  • (8) People are worried about Europe, the fiscal cliff, the election, no one wants to open their pocketbooks," said Faucher.
  • (9) Those who have had contact with the officers say that, in the immediate aftermath of the altercation at the gates of Downing Street, both officers made notes of what they say happened in their pocketbooks.
  • (10) Obama has been highlighting his energy agenda this week in Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and later Thursday in battleground Ohio, a trip that reflects the degree to which high gas prices have begun hitting consumers in their pocketbooks.
  • (11) There was a wonderful opportunity squandered to highlight what this service would mean for artists who are struggling and to make a plea to people’s hearts and pocketbooks to pay a little more for this service that was going to pay these artists a more reasonable streaming rate.
  • (12) Since Air Force fliers may "quit" only at some personal cost to pride or pocketbook, they may develop a fear of flying.
  • (13) There is a well-funded group out there that is pushing this agenda … that want to get into your pocketbooks,” Palmer was quoted as saying in an appearance at an industry forum in St Louis.
  • (14) The ads are playing nationwide in states that elected a president who promised them change but who now, the Kochs argue, is threatening their livelihoods and their pocketbooks.

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