Lexic.us

Definition of Book

1. Noun. A written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together). "I am reading a good book on economics"

2. Verb. Engage for a performance. "Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"

3. Noun. Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together. "He used a large book as a doorstop"

4. Verb. Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance. "Please hold a table at Maxim's"

5. Noun. A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone. "His name is in all the record books"

6. Verb. Record a charge in a police register. "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"

7. Noun. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance.

8. Verb. Register in a hotel booker.

9. Noun. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded. "They got a subpoena to examine our books"

10. Noun. A collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game.

11. Noun. A collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made. "They run things by the book around here"

12. Noun. The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina.

13. Noun. The sacred writings of the Christian religions. "He went to carry the Word to the heathen"

14. Noun. A major division of a long written composition. "The book of Isaiah"

15. Noun. A number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge. "He bought a book of stamps"

Definition of Book

1. n. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

2. v. t. To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

Definition of Book

1. Verb. (context: UK dialectal Northern England) (form of Alternative simple past bake). ¹

2. Noun. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. If initially blank, commonly referred to as a notebook. ¹

3. Noun. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. ¹

4. Noun. A major division of a long work. ¹

5. Noun. A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). ¹

6. Noun. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. ¹

7. Noun. The script of a musical. ¹

8. Noun. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business. ¹

9. Noun. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. ¹

10. Noun. (context: legal) A colloquial reference to 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). ¹

11. Noun. (context: poker slang) four of a kind ¹

12. Noun. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. ¹

13. Noun. (sports by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. ¹

14. Verb. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use. ¹

15. Verb. (law enforcement transitive) To penalise (someone) for an offence. ¹

16. Verb. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. ¹

17. Verb. (intransitive slang) To travel very fast. ¹

18. Verb. (transitive) To write down. ¹

19. Verb. (transitive legal) To receive the highest grade in a class. ¹

20. Verb. (intransitive slang) To leave. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Book

1. to engage services [v -ED, -ING, -S] : BOOKABLE [adj]

Medical Definition of Book

1. 1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet. It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns. 2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. "A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." (Milton) 3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost." 4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. 5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook. Book account, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. Book debt, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. Book learning, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. "Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false." . Book louse, to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. To speak by the book, to speak with minute exactness. Without book. By memory. Without authority. Origin: OE. Book, bok, AS. Bc; akin to Goth. Bka a letter, in pl. Book, writing, Icel. Bk, Sw. Bok, Dan. Bog, OS. Bk, D. Boek, OHG. Puoh, G. Buch; and fr. AS. Bc, bce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. Beech. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book

boogying boogyman boogymen booh boohed boohing boohoo boohooed boohooing boohoos

boohs booing boojum boojum tree boojums book (current term) book-answerer book-burner book-burning book-ghoul

book-ghouls book-keep book-keeper book-keepers book-keeping book-learned book-learning book-lore book-ridden book-scorpion

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