Word Finder - books

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A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.

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He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.

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A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

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I have three copies of his first book.

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A major division of a long work.

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Genesis is the first book of the Bible.

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• tome
• volume

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A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

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I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.

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A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.

example

a book of raffle tickets

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• booklet

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The script of a musical or opera.

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• libretto

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(usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.

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• account
• record

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A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).

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(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.

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Four of a kind

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A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.

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(by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.

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The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.

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Any source of instruction.

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To reserve (something) for future use.

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I can book tickets for the concert next week.

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• reserve

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To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

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They booked that message from the hill

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• make a note of
• note down
• record
• write down

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(law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

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The police booked him for driving too fast.

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To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.

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To travel very fast.

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He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.

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• bomb
• hurtle
• rocket
• shoot
• speed
• whiz

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To record bets as bookmaker.

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(law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.

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The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.

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To leave.

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He was here earlier, but he booked.

Read books that are true.

There are many new books in the library.

I looked for your books in the library, Miss Turnbull, but we couldn't find them.

What did the books say to do in this situation?

I took the greatest delight in these German books, especially Schiller's wonderful lyrics, the history of Frederick the Great's magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life.

Books were very scarce and very precious, and only a few men could read them.

The counter was stacked with books, and there was a single chair behind the stand for him to sit and sign.

Xander was everywhere, from posters on the wall, stacks of books he'd allegedly written, even a red carpet entrance flanked by adoring female fans and photographers.

Its trade also in books, hops, horses, and cloth is considerable, and a large banking and exchange business is done here.

He had died by the time I read that passage in one of his books, so I couldn't write him, as is my normal practice when an author's words puzzle me.

Since it debuted selling books in 1995, Amazon has expanded to sell all kinds of products.

I read a couple of books today.

Posing provocatively for pictures, signing books, small talk.

There remained a second rope, various books on the sport of ice climbing and a few pitons.

Dropping to one of the benches, she opened one of the books and leafed through the colorful pages, pausing when she recognized a plant.

Seeing even his books standing rigidly at attention made her uncomfortable.

Gabriel.s small cottage was lit by a single candle that cast light on a collection of weapons along one wall and a few books on a bookshelf on another.

The morning light was too bright for his eyes, and he turned to face shelves of antique books.

It happens in all your books.

There appeared to be no such thing as a do-it-yourself manual for seeing the future, but the books had a few good—if bizarre—anecdotal stories that gave her ideas.

She snorted at the strange assortment of books.

I got here early and was reading the highlighted portions of one of your psychology books.

According to the story of the legists who wrote these books - e.g.

In study hours she had to look up new words for me and read and reread notes and books I did not have in raised print.

I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity.

Roger rose and went to the front of Diversions and returned with one of Ouray's many history books.

He pushed open the fourth door, walking into a large room stacked from floor to ceiling with ancient tablets, manuscripts, and books.

He jabbed his thumb toward the wall behind him, where she made out the slender nickel doorknob in the space between two shelves of ancient books.

It contained a sofa, two wing chairs, a queen size bed, a fully stocked wet bar, kitchenette, bathroom, wide screen TV, books, and magazines.

It was right out of one of his books.

No wonder I couldn't find them in any mug books.

She found herself admiring his body and forced her attention on reading one of the books she'd picked up during a trip to stretch her legs earlier.

Stuttgart is the centre of the publishing trade of south Germany, and it has busy industries in everything connected with the production of books.

His confinement was strict and injured his health, but he was allowed the use of books.

The work includes the thirteenth book by Mapheus Vegius; and each of the thirteen books is introduced by a prologue.

Nor was he a commoner in college at Winchester or at New College, as his name does not appear in the Hall books, or lists of those dining in hall, at either college.

Only Pecock's books and not the heretic were burnt.

The poems of Propertius, as they have come down to us, consist of four books containing 4046 lines of elegiac verse.

It may be assigned to 25 B.C. The dates of the publication of the rest are uncertain, but none of them was published before 24 B.C., and the, last not before 16 B.C. The unusual length of the second one (1402 lines) has led Lachmann and other critics to suppose that it originally consisted of two books, and they have placed the beginning of the third book at ii.

The four-book numbering is now the current one and is adopted in this article though there is little doubt that there were originally four books besides the Cynthia.

They will be forgotten, and their books will not be read.

These minute insects are found amongst old books and furniture.

The twenty-six books De Animalibus of Albertus Magnus (Groot), printed in 1478, are founded mainly on Aristotle.

The enormous labour required for this work seems scarcely to have been appreciated, though it remains to this day one of the most useful books in an ornithologist's library.

Pithou wrote a great number of legal and historical books, besides preparing editions of several ancient authors.

In 1635 Fra Fortunato Olmo found in a room over the great door of St Mark's a number of books which he supposed to be Petrarch's gift.

It is very doubtful whether these books really belonged to Petrarch.

In 1278 his books were condemned by Jerome de Ascoli, general of the Franciscans, afterwards Pope Nicholas IV., and he himself was thrown into prison for fourteen years.

Several of his books have passed into new and revised editions and have been translated into English.

The nine books were subsequently expanded to twelve (Leipzig, 1874).