Book

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  • noun. A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
  • noun. An e-book or other electronic resource structured like a book.
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  • noun. A printed or written literary work.
  • noun. A main division of a larger printed or written work.
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  • noun. A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
  • noun. Financial or business records considered as a group.
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  • noun. A libretto.
  • noun. The script of a play.
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  • noun. The Bible.
  • noun. The Koran.
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  • noun. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based.
  • noun. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
  • noun. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task.
  • noun. Factual information, especially of a private nature.
  • noun. A pack of like or similar items bound together.
  • noun. A record of bets placed on a race.
  • noun. The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To arrange for or purchase (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
  • intransitive verb. To arrange a reservation, as for a hotel room, for (someone).
  • intransitive verb. To hire or engage.
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  • intransitive verb. To list or register in a book.
  • intransitive verb. To list or record appointments or engagements in.
  • intransitive verb. To record information about (a suspected offender) after arrest in preparation for arraignment, usually including a criminal history search, fingerprinting, and photographing.
  • intransitive verb. To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
  • intransitive verb. To designate a time for; schedule.
  • intransitive verb. To be hired for or engaged in.
  • intransitive verb. To make a reservation.
  • adjective. Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience.
  • adjective. Appearing in a company's financial records.
  • idiom. (bring to book) To demand an explanation from; call to account.
  • idiom. (in (one's) book) In one's opinion.
  • idiom. (like a book) Thoroughly; completely.
  • idiom. (one for the books) A noteworthy act or occurrence.
  • idiom. (throw the book at) To make all possible charges against (a lawbreaker, for example).
  • idiom. (throw the book at) To reprimand or punish severely.
  • intransitive verb. To move or travel rapidly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A writing; a written instrument or document, especially one granting land; a deed.
  • noun. A treatise, written or printed on any material, and put together in any convenient form, as in the long parchment rolls of the Jews, in the bundles of bamboo tablets in use among the Chinese before the invention of paper, or in leaves of paper bound together, as is usual in modern times; a literary composition, especially one of considerable length, whether written or printed.
  • noun. Specifically, the Bible.
  • noun. A collection of written or printed sheets fastened or bound together, especially one larger than a pamphlet; a volume: as, this book is one of a set or series.
  • noun. A particular subdivision of a literary composition; one of the larger divisions used in classifying topics, periods, etc.
  • noun. Figuratively, anything that serves for the recording of facts or events: as, the book of Nature.
  • Word Usage
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