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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
textbook
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
medical
▪ The condition should figure prominently in undergraduate clinical training and in medical textbooks.
▪ Erasmus Darwin published his Zoonomia in 1794, which was partly a medical textbook, partly a treatise in biology.
▪ In a medical textbook, the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation.
new
▪ This new textbook describes the Boundary Element Method, a powerful and accurate computational technique in continuum mechanics.
▪ Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks, we will earmark funds for class and library books.
standard
▪ Not all teachers today use a single standard textbook as their staple material and many schools have difficulty affording class sets.
▪ Readers interested in further details may consult any standard financial accounting textbook.
▪ Anyone interested in this type of detail should consult a standard physics textbook on light.
■ NOUN
case
▪ It has become a textbook case of how to kill off public participation.
▪ Suffice that this was a textbook case of civic responsibility.
▪ It is a textbook case of how effectively corporate lobbies work in Brussels, not just Washington.
▪ The mortgage market was one of two or three textbook cases that illustrated the change sweeping the world of finance.
example
▪ The model only works at the level of the textbook example, the single isolated sentence.
▪ Here was a textbook example of free enterprise in the marketplace of religion, a competition in which the fittest survived.
▪ This is a textbook example of a parallelistic couplet, with a mirror chiasmus. is parallel to.
▪ It was a textbook example of maintenance learning.
▪ He is a textbook example of how complicated it is to assign blame.
school
▪ The practical outcome is a series of three school textbooks.
▪ Lipski was able to point to several passages in school textbooks containing similar references.
▪ The new openness expressed in the academic debates, and the latest school textbook, still leaves many issues unanswered.
▪ The issue of curriculum and subject choice goes deeper than the portrayal of women in school textbooks, however.
▪ The government provides school textbooks but supplementary materials are developed by educational consultants or teachers.
▪ In school textbooks a certain amount of information is given, for example in a maths problem.
▪ This idiom encourages the very bad habit of believing that life is going to be as neatly packaged as a school textbook.
▪ We are back again with the school textbook idiom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I can't get hold of any of the college textbooks he recommended.
▪ Most economics textbooks skip over the subject of investing and financial markets.
▪ The grant covers the costs of tuition, fees and textbooks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Elementary textbooks seem to contain no reference to it.
▪ One textbook for teachers presented an entire unit on the colon.
▪ Open most astronomy textbooks and you will find a statement somewhere that calls the Sun an average star.
▪ She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.
▪ Social studies textbooks have only comparatively recently begun to include gender as an area of study alongside social class or ethnicity.
▪ The assumption is that textbooks, sanitized as they are, are factual and thus noncontroversial.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
textbook

also text-book, "book used by students," 1779, from text (n.) + book (n.). Earlier (1730) it meant "book printed with wide spaces between the lines" for notes or translation (such a book would have been used by students), from the notion of the text of a book being more open than the close notes. As an adjective from 1916.

Wiktionary
textbook

a. 1 Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike. 2 Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook. n. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

WordNet
textbook

  1. adj. according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example" [syn: casebook]

  2. n. a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" [syn: text, text edition, schoolbook, school text] [ant: trade book]

Wikipedia
Textbook

A textbook or coursebook ( UK English) is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books.

Textbook (disambiguation)

A textbook is a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study.

Textbook or Textbooks may also refer to:

  • "Textbook" (song), a song by We Are Scientists
  • The Textbooks, an Iranian documentary film
  • Text Book (film), an Indian film in Malayalam language

Usage examples of "textbook".

Aletta Gous, banned from entry into premises where printing or publishing was done, had lost her job as a proof-reader of Afrikaans textbooks and was working, when last Rosa was in touch with her, with some organization that tried to make popular among blacks a cheap, high protein food.

To be sure, the answer to Eurocentric textbooks is not one-sided Afrocentric history, the kind that has Africans inventing everything good and whites inventing slavery and oppression.

It says little abour Hispanic history, for example, fet our textbooks are so Anglocentric that they might be considered Protestant history.

New York, I enrolled in a monthlong French class taught by a beautiful young Parisian woman who had us memorize a series of dialogues from an audiocassette that accompanied our textbook.

While I can honestly say that I love leafing through medical textbooks devoted to severe dermatological conditions, the hobby is beyond the reach of my French vocabulary, and acting it out would only have invited controversy.

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I made change absently, pointed out the neatly lettered signs above the various sections, and occasionally forayed into the aisles to help the dimmest find textbooks.

Nearly forty years ago, while teaching the elements of physiology at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, it occurred to me to illustrate the statements of textbooks by a repetition of such simple experiments as had come before my own eyes.

In the twenty-first century, when I hope Russia will be a sweeter country than it is just now, Gorki will be but a name in a textbook, but Chekhov will live as long as there are birchwoods and sunsets and the urge to write.

The broad leaf of the heliconia I had seen only in textbooks thrust upward from vegetation so dense it would demand a machete and a strong arm to enter it.

He took a hematology textbook down from the shelf and opened it to the Ca section.

We had relied on our current textbook understanding of the disease: Inhalational anthrax disease does not occur unless there is direct inhalation of more than ten thousand spores.

Apart from these, Kievan literature consisted mainly of polemical writings, sermons, and textbooks.

But so many nurses do leave nursing that someone has written a textbook about it.

It was a textbook case of chronic osteomyelitis, with a discharging sinus and probably a large chunk of dead bone inside, trapped within a new layer of living bone that was desperately trying to evict the dead matter.