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handbook
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, disregarding the size of it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handbook \Hand"book`\ (-b[oo^]k`), n. [Hand + book; cf. AS. handb[=o]c, or G. handbuch.] A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook. A book containing reference information for a specific field; as, the Handbook of Chemistry.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Handbook (formerly the Church Handbook of Instructions and earlier the General Handbook of Instructions ) is a two-volume book of instructions and policies for leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The books are prepared ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location [syn: enchiridion , vade mecum ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English handboc ; see hand (n.) + book (N.). It translates Latin manualis , and was displaced in Middle English by manual (from French), and later in part by enchiridion (from Greek). Reintroduced 1814, but execrated through much of 19c. as "that very ...
Usage examples of handbook.
I mean the Ancestral ones we attendants use as our handbook, training manual, journal, history, chronicle, what have you.
Just before he died, he had written a handbook offering very practical advice for creating a modern guerilla unit.
Sammy chased after it with a broom in one hand and a handbook of lepidoptery in the other.
I reached down the mynah bird handbook to have my diagnosis confirmed.
But is it not also supposed to be and here I quote the handbook a safe and nurturing environment?
While they argued over details Kovac had wrestled with again and again, he flipped through the books Quinn had brought out: The DSM-IV, Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, The Handbook of Forensic Sexology, Autoerotic Fatalities.
See FAA report, Civil Aviation Reference Handbook, May 1999, appendix D.
Monsieur Jackson asks you a, the interview, you will say, excuse me one moment, I consult my Veronique handbook.
The journey in the train occupied six hours or more, and Sam spent the time in learning the Castalian language in a handbook he had bought in town.
Masonic Cyclopaedia and Handbook of Masonic Archaeology,History and Biography , p558.
Masonic Cyclopaedia and Handbook of Masonic Archaeology, History and Biography , George Kenning, London, 1878.
Handbook on the Preparation, Properties and Analysis of the Soaps and Oils used in Textile Manufacturing, Dyeing and Printing.
Imperial Institute series of Handbooks to the Commercial Resources of the Tropics, by permission.
HANDBOOK OF The Occurrence, Distribution, Preparation, and Industrial Uses of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Products used in Spinning and Weaving.
She had fantasized about her first field assignment, but no one had given her a handbook outlining what her behavior should be under the circumstances.