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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
book
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a booking fee (also a service fee American English) (= a charge you pay when buying a ticket)
▪ Tickets for the concert are £45, plus a booking fee.
a book/magazine cover
▪ There was a blonde girl on the magazine cover.
a book/volume/collection of poems
▪ She has a new collection of poems coming out soon.
a book/volume/collection of poetry
▪ He had two books of poetry published.
a cheque book (=a book of cheques that your bank gives you to use)
▪ When you open a bank account you will be given your own cheque book.
a cookery book (=telling you how to cook food)
▪ She opened her cookery book and chose a recipe.
a library book
▪ She's gone into town to change her library books.
a poetry book
▪ He has just brought out another poetry book.
a prayer book (=book containing prayers)
a rent bookBritish English (= a book that shows the payments you have made in rent)
a stamp/coin/book/glass etc collection
▪ an impressive Roman coin collection
a travel book/guide
▪ Kyushu looks so lovely in the travel books.
an address book (=a book or a file on your computer, where you keep people’s addresses)
an instruction book/manual
▪ The instruction manual for the camera is over 150 pages long.
appointment book
blue book
book a flight (=reserve a seat on a particular plane)
▪ I booked the flight over the Internet.
book a holiday
▪ I booked the holiday online.
book an appointmentBritish English, schedule an appointment American English (= make an appointment)
▪ Have you booked another appointment at the clinic?
▪ I’ve scheduled your appointment for 9.30.
book club
book group
book token
▪ She gave me a book token for Christmas.
book value
booking office
book/reserve a seat
▪ You can book seats online.
book/reserve a table (=in a restaurant)
▪ I've booked a table for four at a local restaurant.
book/reserve a ticket
▪ We booked our tickets well in advance.
book...venue
▪ The first thing to do is book a venue.
car/ticket/book etc sales
▪ Car sales have fallen every month for the past two years.
coffee table book
colouring book
confirm a booking/reservation/appointment
▪ I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for the night of 6 June.
cookery book
exercise book
fiddle the books (=give false figures in a company’s financial records)
fully booked
▪ The restaurant is fully booked this evening.
guest book
had gone by the book (=had obeyed all the rules)
▪ There was no doubt that the referee had gone by the book.
hymn book
log book
order book
▪ Our order books are full at the moment.
paying-in book
pension book
phone book
picture book
prayer book
recipe book
▪ a recipe book
reference book
self-help books
▪ a shelf of self-help books
statute book
▪ The government would like to see this new law on the statute book as soon as possible.
talking book
telephone book
the arms/timber/book etc trade
▪ Britain is heavily involved in the arms trade.
use every excuse in the book (=use every possible excuse)
▪ He used every excuse in the book to avoid seeing the doctor.
visitors' book
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comic
▪ Not the comic book characters, soup cans, flags and targets, of course.
▪ The film dramatises and elaborates these fears in a knockabout, comic-book style with slightly implausible plot complications.
▪ You can use the programs to edit photos and create greeting cards, certificates, comic books, labels and other goodies.
▪ It's a comic book sort of thing, doing everything in your power to present yourselves as greater than your audience.
▪ Alcohol, comic books and mouthwash all bask under the superior reputation of the market.
▪ Tex Avery cartoons of comic book bodies and slapstick violence.
▪ I had a ton of comic books, too.
■ NOUN
address
▪ The address book stores all the essential name and address details and provides room for telephone numbers and a general comment.
▪ Ray Rawlins called everybody he knew and told them to bring whisky; then he went through his address book for girls.
▪ For example, they might send themselves to all the contacts in your email address book.
▪ After the address book came the false names.
▪ A basic address book can be up and working in under half an hour.
▪ All of human existence was no more than a huge address book.
history
▪ There are individual differences, but all history books tend to organise information in an hierarchical way.
▪ The history book could not get by in the same manner.
▪ The Prescot Playhouse Players brought the history books to life at the town's pageant this week.
▪ In his home, he had more labor history books than the Library of Congress.
▪ Alas, like so many things which get into the history books, it wasn't quite like that.
▪ But those are experiences which Clinton and his contemporaries in leadership know only from the history books.
▪ The first pictorial record of flowers from a sixteenth-century garden marks the highlight of this sale of travel and natural history books.
▪ Indeed, the 1996 campaign season is headed for the history books as the most costly in history.
order
▪ These would be commercial travellers, wanting to write up their order books in peace.
▪ The other driving force is cold cash and order books.
▪ Payment will be made in arrears every four weeks or quarterly, whichever you prefer. Order book.
▪ And nobody's order books had been full this summer.
▪ Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.
▪ By 1950 the order book was full to overflowing.
▪ Rolls-Royce has a strong order book in aero gas turbines and the prospect of further large orders in a buoyant aircraft market.
▪ It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector.
phone
▪ It's in the phone book.
▪ Inside the booth, he secured the door with his foot and thumbed through the phone book.
▪ This is rough on the phone company, which still organizes the phone book by first names.
▪ That whittled the field down from the white pages of the Paris phone book.
▪ Nicola Hammond looked in the phone book.
▪ She had to look up the number in the phone book.
▪ And there didn't seem to be a phone book.
▪ Hicks moved the phone book out of her way.
picture
▪ Bodiam is a picture book castle and a favourite with children of all ages.
▪ They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.
▪ Roald Dahl's last picture book tells how Billy rescued the tiny Minpins from the smoke belching Gruncher.
▪ A five-page picture book is needed to explain the steps required to release and lift the hood of army vehicles.
▪ Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her.
▪ One of the greatest historians for children is the author Jean Fritz who has written historical novels and picture books.
▪ Colouring books help their writing skills ... picture books help their reading skills ... counting books help them with their numbers.
▪ One-night picture books require parents to select and begin a new story every night.
prayer
▪ We need to see the comfort a confused old person derives from holding a prayer book or rosary.
▪ A congregation in Tampa sent over some prayer books, while Unity of Leesburg donated a pulpit.
▪ At her girdle hung a gold chain and cross, and she carried a handkerchief and a little prayer book bound in gold.
▪ The care with which Christians had treasured their Bibles, prayer books and hymn books was very touching.
▪ When he reached his church, he missed the prayer book, and hurried back.
▪ Some of them wept as the preacher opened up his prayer book and the coffin was gently lowered into the grave.
▪ These prayers will be found in the prayer book immediately after the psalms.
▪ The vicar paced behind, holding his prayer book, his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door.
reference
▪ As a visual aid to anatomical familiarity, a reference book such as this has undoubted value.
▪ In the meantime, publishers continue to publish, between two covers, all sorts of reference books.
▪ Make yourself a present of Silences and keep it by you as a reference book.
▪ Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book.
▪ Forms of address and titles for important personages can be found in reference books.
▪ Although U/V, ozone and protein skimmers were known, reference books often claimed they were unnecessary.
▪ The panel will explore the recruit's experience with reference books of any sort.
statute
▪ But what happens if there are two Acts on the statute books which conflict with one another?
▪ Most work at uninspiring tasks, pore over old court decisions and statute books, and draft memos for their higher-ups.
▪ The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book.
▪ The southern states now relied on tightening enforcement measures already on the statute books and increasing the alertness of the patrols.
▪ The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
▪ I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
▪ It is clear that the Government are determined that the Bill will be on the statute book before the general election.
▪ Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993.
value
▪ A revaluation of the brewer's 1,600 pubs showed that they are now worth £255million more than their book value.
▪ It was sold at current book value.
▪ The goodwill reflects the premium over book value Wells paid for its Los Angeles-based rival.
▪ It can be drawn up on the basis of historic-cost book values, current-cost book values or market values.
▪ Now they carry a collective book value of more than $ 8, 000.
▪ Describe what is meant by the net book value and the written down value of an asset?
▪ Perhaps the best way to understand book value is by means of an example.
■ VERB
balance
▪ Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books.
▪ Nature always balances her books, and Jupiter had lost exactly as much momentum as Discovery had gained.
▪ Jobs threat: Five teachers at York's Lowfield School could face redundancy unless the opted-out school can balance its books.
▪ All supply people dreamed of a way to balance the books once and for all-without all that trading and shuffling.
▪ Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
▪ How has it balanced its books with the rest of the world?
▪ But the council had to balance its books, he said.
▪ As treasurer of the R.A.D.D., he once balanced the books, which had a serious deficit, with a handsome donation.
close
▪ At last he closed his books and went to bed.
▪ He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
▪ The police have closed the book on the Hannah Davies case.
▪ Before every architect closes this book in disgust, let me explain.
▪ He closed the book and slipped it into a polythene bag.
▪ The goal of reading is to be done with it, to be able to close the book and play.
▪ And, by definitively closing the book on the past, the language of socialism also remains trapped in Stalinism's wreckage.
▪ I closed the book, touching it gently.
open
▪ Joan and her sister Ruth appeared early in the saga, and young Paul opened the very first book of the series.
▪ Slowly she would open the book and begin the story.
▪ Before you even open the book, make sure that you are comfortable.
▪ She opens a book, hands it to me, points to a passage.
▪ He opened a book with his thumbnail, as if afraid of dirtying his fingers.
▪ I looked over and saw that Gordon had opened a book.
▪ Is there any point in opening a book on who our Howard will drop to make way for rodders.
▪ He turned the chair around, positioning himself with his back to the window, and opened the book.
publish
▪ The Norwich Union has published a useful book called Education Planning.
▪ Paul and I are the only Grunwalds who are not publishing a book this month.
▪ Another way of finding useful or appropriate things to read is to look at library catalogues which have been published as books.
▪ The Alcoholics Anonymous World Services publishes a book whose purpose is to provide an interpretation of the twelve steps.
▪ Kletz also plans to publish a book that Patrick Eddington is writing about his Gulf War findings.
read
▪ But what I really want is for the book to be read and enjoyed by the people who read the other books.
▪ We can read the books children are reading, find out what happens in class, ask what the guidance counselor said.
▪ There are few things worse than being bludgeoned into reading a book you hate.
▪ I read the books and all that stuff.
▪ This will help you to decide whether you really need to read the whole book or only certain parts of it.
▪ Maybe the best thing to do in this case is to just stay home and read the book.
▪ How could his son become a priest if he read such books?
write
▪ In 1975 author Francis Hitching was commissioned to write a book and television documentary entitled Earth Magic.
▪ Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
▪ Before they left, the priest wrote in their temple books.
▪ This knowledge allows him to trace the development of Proustian themes and reconstruct how Proust wrote his book, step by step.
▪ I would stay here for a year, study the language, live with people, write my book.
▪ Although I began to research the subject, I never wrote that book.
▪ There is no story, no plot, no action-nothing but a man sitting alone in a room and writing a book.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closed book (to sb)
▪ But your own past can be a closed book, even at fourteen.
▪ He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
▪ I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book.
▪ I tell myself it's a closed book, but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.
▪ Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.
▪ The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!
▪ The kitchenette is a closed book.
▪ The Shoah will never be a closed book.
a turn-up for the book(s)
advance planning/warning/booking etc
▪ For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.
▪ However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
▪ If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
▪ It will also repay advance bookings.
▪ Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
▪ Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
▪ The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
balance the books
▪ All supply people dreamed of a way to balance the books once and for all-without all that trading and shuffling.
▪ As treasurer of the R.A.D.D., he once balanced the books, which had a serious deficit, with a handsome donation.
▪ But it is still difficult balancing the books.
▪ Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books.
▪ Saving seed can help balance the books, but it's not to be undertaken lightly.
▪ The days of balancing the books are over.
▪ Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
▪ We are now considering new taxes to balance the books.
be an open book
▪ I'd always thought of Jeff as an open book.
▪ Our foreign dealings are an open book generally a check book.
▪ To them my future was an open book.
be in sb's good books
▪ I think I'm back in Corinne's good books again.
be singing from the same hymn book/sheet
be singing from the same hymn sheet/book
book/antiques/craft/trade etc fair
▪ Antiques Fair, Social Centre, Yarm.
▪ Attractions include over 100 trade stands, refreshment tents and licensed bars, caravan site and craft fair.
▪ Champagne was also prospering during this time from the great trade fairs.
▪ Chartwell Travel is offering discounted air fares to the Frankfurt Book Fair from £108 return.
▪ Eighty countries plan to attend the Baghdad trade fair in November.
▪ Running alongside was a trade fair.
▪ Then, on the third day, he would be a guest at a trade fair held in New Jersey.
book/record/gift token
▪ A £10 book token will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened on Thursday 7 March.
book/record/wine etc club
▪ Bristol brought on record club buy Ray Atteveld for the injured Martin Scott after 16 minutes.
▪ Four were circulars - two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue.
▪ I think we all know that the book clubs are not naive.
▪ Last fall, Winfrey decided to give fiction a boost by creating her on-air book club.
▪ The kids belong to a book club.
▪ The recently reestablished library club was described and the possibility of a book club considered.
can read sb like a book
▪ I can read you like a book - some book I've read six times already.
close the book on sth
▪ And, by definitively closing the book on the past, the language of socialism also remains trapped in Stalinism's wreckage.
▪ Rady made a motion to close the book on the matter.
▪ The police have closed the book on the Hannah Davies case.
cook the books
▪ Officials at the bank were found to have cooked the books.
▪ The directors of the company made millions from cooking the books before the fraud investigators caught them.
▪ We've just found out Alec's been cooking the books.
▪ Lost himself in a welter of ambitions, unsafe buildings, cheaper materials; he cooked the books to make more blocks.
▪ Martin I hate to disturb you when you're cooking the books, but there's a delivery.
▪ One solution would be to make the cities more habitable, but a much more sure-fire way is cooking the books.
▪ When it came to cooking the books, Dennis was in the Raymond Blanc class.
don't judge a book by its cover
full-length play/book/film etc
▪ How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
have your nose in a book/magazine/newspaper
illuminated manuscript/book
▪ An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
▪ Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
▪ His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
▪ It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
▪ She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
▪ The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
▪ The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
learned books/works etc
on the statute book
▪ Some of those old laws are still on the statute book.
▪ I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
▪ It is clear that the Government are determined that the Bill will be on the statute book before the general election.
▪ The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book.
▪ The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use.
▪ The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book.
▪ The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
pop-up book/card etc
▪ Robert Sabuda is fast gaining a reputation as a master of the art of making intricate and appealing pop-up books.
renew a book
▪ Library books can be renewed by telephone.
sb wrote the book on sth
▪ Cheryl wrote the book on being irresponsible.
▪ Hartley wrote the book on self-serving.
▪ It wrote the book on quality control.
set book/text etc
▪ But not in his set books!
▪ Galsworthy was a set book: I felt I knew the Forsyte Saga by heart.
▪ One of the set texts for Advent dealt with the birth of John the Baptist.
▪ So was Naipaul, the writer of a book which was a classroom set text.
▪ When a graphics element is placed on a page there is now an option to set text wraparound.
suit sb's book
take a leaf out of sb's book
the Good Book
the good book
▪ All by all this is one of the better books on chemometrics.
▪ And by the way, I still believe Dermot Somers' was immeasurably the better book.
▪ I gave her the best books To read; she read them greedily.
▪ Male speaker I think it's the best book I ever read.
▪ So which is the better book?
▪ The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
▪ The Bourne Identity is the best book I've read or ever will read.
▪ The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
the history books
▪ Alas, like so many things which get into the history books, it wasn't quite like that.
▪ And straight into the history books at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
▪ Democrats want a convention for the history books.
▪ Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.
▪ Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books.
▪ The battle is important in the history books as one of the final skirmishes in that war, as Gen.
▪ The blighters have even been immortalised in the history books.
▪ Where does the dividing line come between yesterday's news and the history books?
the record books
throw the book at sb
▪ Judge Smith threw the book at Flynn, fining him $1.6 million and giving him six years in prison.
▪ From the beginning, he seemed determined to throw the book at her.
▪ In short, they threw the book at him.
use/try every trick in the book
▪ I tried every trick in the book to reform him.
▪ Victoria used every trick in the book to undermine Patsy in order to get the new job colleagues knew Patsy had earned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a book by Charles Dickens
▪ a book of matches
▪ a secondhand book dealer
▪ an address book
▪ Do you have any books on astronomy?
▪ Eric's reading a book by William Faulkner.
▪ Have you read this book?
▪ I'm reading a book about a little girl who was a slave in 19th century Atlanta.
▪ I think Muriel Spark is a great writer, I love her books.
▪ I went and got a library book about it.
▪ It's a pretty good book.
▪ She wrote a book of short stories, but it never got published.
▪ What book are you reading at the moment?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His book had to be published by the obscure Middle Passage Press.
▪ In September 1930, on a day selected by his grandmother, he opened an exercise book and waited for inspiration.
▪ It told me, he will write books of status.
▪ Seth was paging through a book.
▪ That is the sad story Jim Carlton tells in his forthcoming book about Apple Computer.
▪ The book was an immediate success.
▪ We can not have the voluptuous strengths of new technology, but books have the attraction of maturity.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ It promised about 25,000 people who have already booked that they will get refunds of up to £70 each.
▪ Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.
fully
▪ Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter.
▪ Coming back, we stood all the way from Naples to Paris on a fully booked train.
▪ Berths only become available to staff or relatives when the ship is not fully booked.
▪ The trip is now fully booked and money for tickets should be paid in as soon as possible.
▪ No one knows how many are coming; the fully booked hotels say perhaps 100,000.
▪ Two coaches are fully booked with dozens more Italia-bound by air, mini-bus and car.
■ NOUN
library
▪ In similar lessons in all sorts of schools, the students go on to scour textbooks and library books for more facts.
▪ Now, the same children borrow educational toys and games from Washington as if they were library books.
place
▪ Full details of this scheme will be given to fans when they book their places for the trip.
player
▪ Ardiles was critical of the performance of referee Edward Parker, who booked eight players.
room
▪ Wearily, Kelly made her way back to her car, drove to the nearest hotel and booked a room.
▪ Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.
▪ I booked two rooms at the Hotel Colombi from Frankfurt Airport.
▪ It will allow users to check out availability, pricing and book a room instantly.
▪ If you were sleeping with me, I'd have booked a double room.
▪ Parents have the option of staying in the kids' rooms or booking an adjacent room.
▪ Just off the square, in the quieter area of the Saarlandstrasse, the Joyces found a hotel and booked a room.
▪ Instead of booking a class, the passenger booked different forms of sleeping arrangement rather like booking a hotel room.
seat
▪ Some airlines even allow customers to book seats.
▪ I did not book his seat.
▪ They've all booked a seat on the plane, too.
▪ What does the bloke expect ... if you booked a seat at the theatre ... then lost your ticket ... your problem.
▪ And you can book your seat now by contacting the society at Banbridge 25131.
table
▪ Sergio had booked a table at a new restaurant called Senzala.
▪ Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30.
trip
▪ Friends said that the couple, from Maesteg, Mid Glamorgan, booked the trip at the last minute.
▪ Some 250 passengers were booked on the return trip to Hamburg via Lisbon.
▪ Once you've booked your trip, don't bother packing loads of clothes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closed book (to sb)
▪ But your own past can be a closed book, even at fourteen.
▪ He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
▪ I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book.
▪ I tell myself it's a closed book, but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.
▪ Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.
▪ The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!
▪ The kitchenette is a closed book.
▪ The Shoah will never be a closed book.
a turn-up for the book(s)
advance planning/warning/booking etc
▪ For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.
▪ However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
▪ If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
▪ It will also repay advance bookings.
▪ Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
▪ Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
▪ The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
be an open book
▪ I'd always thought of Jeff as an open book.
▪ Our foreign dealings are an open book generally a check book.
▪ To them my future was an open book.
be in sb's good books
▪ I think I'm back in Corinne's good books again.
be singing from the same hymn book/sheet
block booking/voting
▪ Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
book/antiques/craft/trade etc fair
▪ Antiques Fair, Social Centre, Yarm.
▪ Attractions include over 100 trade stands, refreshment tents and licensed bars, caravan site and craft fair.
▪ Champagne was also prospering during this time from the great trade fairs.
▪ Chartwell Travel is offering discounted air fares to the Frankfurt Book Fair from £108 return.
▪ Eighty countries plan to attend the Baghdad trade fair in November.
▪ Running alongside was a trade fair.
▪ Then, on the third day, he would be a guest at a trade fair held in New Jersey.
book/record/gift token
▪ A £10 book token will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened on Thursday 7 March.
book/record/wine etc club
▪ Bristol brought on record club buy Ray Atteveld for the injured Martin Scott after 16 minutes.
▪ Four were circulars - two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue.
▪ I think we all know that the book clubs are not naive.
▪ Last fall, Winfrey decided to give fiction a boost by creating her on-air book club.
▪ The kids belong to a book club.
▪ The recently reestablished library club was described and the possibility of a book club considered.
full-length play/book/film etc
▪ How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
have your nose in a book/magazine/newspaper
illuminated manuscript/book
▪ An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
▪ Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
▪ His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
▪ It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
▪ She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
▪ The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
▪ The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
learned books/works etc
on the statute book
▪ Some of those old laws are still on the statute book.
▪ I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
▪ It is clear that the Government are determined that the Bill will be on the statute book before the general election.
▪ The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book.
▪ The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use.
▪ The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book.
▪ The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
pop-up book/card etc
▪ Robert Sabuda is fast gaining a reputation as a master of the art of making intricate and appealing pop-up books.
set book/text etc
▪ But not in his set books!
▪ Galsworthy was a set book: I felt I knew the Forsyte Saga by heart.
▪ One of the set texts for Advent dealt with the birth of John the Baptist.
▪ So was Naipaul, the writer of a book which was a classroom set text.
▪ When a graphics element is placed on a page there is now an option to set text wraparound.
take a leaf out of sb's book
the Good Book
the good book
▪ All by all this is one of the better books on chemometrics.
▪ And by the way, I still believe Dermot Somers' was immeasurably the better book.
▪ I gave her the best books To read; she read them greedily.
▪ Male speaker I think it's the best book I ever read.
▪ So which is the better book?
▪ The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
▪ The Bourne Identity is the best book I've read or ever will read.
▪ The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
the history books
▪ Alas, like so many things which get into the history books, it wasn't quite like that.
▪ And straight into the history books at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
▪ Democrats want a convention for the history books.
▪ Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.
▪ Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books.
▪ The battle is important in the history books as one of the final skirmishes in that war, as Gen.
▪ The blighters have even been immortalised in the history books.
▪ Where does the dividing line come between yesterday's news and the history books?
the record books
use/try every trick in the book
▪ I tried every trick in the book to reform him.
▪ Victoria used every trick in the book to undermine Patsy in order to get the new job colleagues knew Patsy had earned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dawkins was booked on suspicion of attempted murder.
▪ I booked a table for two at 8:00.
▪ Nelson was booked for a tour of Japan in August.
▪ Now, on Montana highways, you can really book.
▪ You'll have to book by tomorrow if you want the lower price.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if you can book a ticket, the fare is good for nearly a year.
▪ I did not book his seat.
▪ I was booked in San Diego last night, you know?
▪ So he set the play in a hotel room, and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in.
▪ The open-top bus can be booked, the extra supplies of silver polish ordered.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
book

Rhapsody \Rhap"so*dy\, n.; pl. Rhapsodies. [F. rhapsodie, L. rhapsodia, Gr. "rapsw,di`a, fr. "rapsw,do`s a rhapsodist; "ra`ptein to sew, stitch together, unite + 'w,dh` a song. See Ode.]

  1. A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.

  2. A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition. ``A rhapsody of words.''
    --Shak. ``A rhapsody of tales.''
    --Locke.

  3. (Mus.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's ``Hungarian Rhapsodies.''

book

Bell \Bell\, n. [AS. belle, fr. bellan to bellow. See Bellow.]

  1. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

    Note: Bells have been made of various metals, but the best have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and tin.

    The Liberty Bell, the famous bell of the Philadelphia State House, which rang when the Continental Congress declared the Independence of the United States, in 1776. It had been cast in 1753, and upon it were the words ``Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof.''

  2. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

  3. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. ``In a cowslip's bell I lie.''
    --Shak.

  4. (Arch.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

  5. pl. (Naut.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

    Note: On shipboard, time is marked by a bell, which is struck eight times at 4, 8, and 12 o'clock. Half an hour after it has struck ``eight bells'' it is struck once, and at every succeeding half hour the number of strokes is increased by one, till at the end of the four hours, which constitute a watch, it is struck eight times.

    To bear away the bell, to win the prize at a race where the prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something.
    --Fuller.

    To bear the bell, to be the first or leader; -- in allusion to the bellwether or a flock, or the leading animal of a team or drove, when wearing a bell.

    To curse by bell, book, and candle, a solemn form of excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose being used, and three candles being extinguished with certain ceremonies.
    --Nares.

    To lose the bell, to be worsted in a contest. ``In single fight he lost the bell.''
    --Fairfax.

    To shake the bells, to move, give notice, or alarm.
    --Shak.

    Note: Bell is much used adjectively or in combinations; as, bell clapper; bell foundry; bell hanger; bell-mouthed; bell tower, etc., which, for the most part, are self-explaining.

    Bell arch (Arch.), an arch of unusual form, following the curve of an ogee.

    Bell cage, or Bell carriage (Arch.), a timber frame constructed to carry one or more large bells.

    Bell cot (Arch.), a small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbeled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.

    Bell deck (Arch.), the floor of a belfry made to serve as a roof to the rooms below.

    Bell founder, one whose occupation it is to found or cast bells.

    Bell foundry, or Bell foundery, a place where bells are founded or cast.

    Bell gable (Arch.), a small gable-shaped construction, pierced with one or more openings, and used to contain bells.

    Bell glass. See Bell jar.

    Bell hanger, a man who hangs or puts up bells.

    Bell pull, a cord, handle, or knob, connecting with a bell or bell wire, and which will ring the bell when pulled.
    --Aytoun.

    Bell punch, a kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell when used.

    Bell ringer, one who rings a bell or bells, esp. one whose business it is to ring a church bell or chime, or a set of musical bells for public entertainment.

    Bell roof (Arch.), a roof shaped according to the general lines of a bell.

    Bell rope, a rope by which a church or other bell is rung.

    Bell tent, a circular conical-topped tent.

    Bell trap, a kind of bell shaped stench trap.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
book

Old English boc "book, writing, written document," traditionally from Proto-Germanic *bokiz "beech" (cognates: German Buch "book" Buche "beech;" see beech), the notion being of beechwood tablets on which runes were inscribed, but it may be from the tree itself (people still carve initials in them). The Old English word originally meant any written document. Latin and Sanskrit also have words for "writing" that are based on tree names ("birch" and "ash," respectively). Meaning "libretto of an opera" is from 1768. A betting book is from 1856.

book

Old English bocian "to grant or assign by charter," from book (n.). Meaning "to enter into a book, record" is early 13c. Meaning "to enter for a seat or place, issue (railway) tickets" is from 1841; "to engage a performer as a guest" is from 1872. Related: Booked; booking.

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book

Etymology 1 n. 1 A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. 2 A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. 3 A major division of a long work. 4 A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 5 A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 6 The script of a musical. 7 (context usually in the plural English) Records of the accounts of a business. 8 A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. 9 (context legal English) 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). 10 (context whist English) Six tricks taken by one side. 11 (context poker slang English) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) ''.'' MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 12 (context sports English) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 13 (context sports by extension English) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To reserve (something) for future use. 2 (context transitive English) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 3 (context law enforcement transitive English) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 4 (context sports English) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 5 (context intransitive slang English) To travel very fast. 6 To record bet as bookmaker. 7 (context transitive law student slang English) To receive the highest grade in a class. 8 (context intransitive slang English) To leave. Etymology 2

vb. (context UK dialectal Northern England English) (en-simple pastbake)

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book

  1. v. record a charge in a police register; "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"

  2. arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" [syn: reserve, hold]

  3. engage for a performance; "Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"

  4. register in a hotel booker

book

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

  2. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: volume]

  3. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books" [syn: ledger, leger, account book, book of account]

  4. a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge; "he bought a book of stamps"

  5. a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks" [syn: record, record book]

  6. a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah"

  7. a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance [syn: script, playscript]

  8. a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here" [syn: rule book]

  9. the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina [syn: Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an]

  10. the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen" [syn: Bible, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word]

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Book (autobiography)
Book

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page. A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book, or e-book.

Books may also refer to works of literature, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals, or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature. In novels and sometimes other types of books (for example, biographies), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on). An avid reader of books is a bibliophile or colloquially, bookworm.

A shop where books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 distinct titles had been published. In some wealthier nations, printed books are giving way to the usage of electronic or e-books, though sales of e-books declined in the first half of 2015.

Book (graph theory)

In graph theory, a book graph (often written B ) may be any of several kinds of graph.

One kind, which may be called a quadrilateral book, consists of p quadrilaterals sharing a common edge (known as the "spine" or "base" of the book). That is, it is a Cartesian product of a star and a single edge. The 7-page book graph of this type provides an example of a graph with no harmonious labeling.

A second type, which might be called a triangular book, is the complete tripartite graph K. It is a graph consisting of p triangles sharing a common edge. A book of this type is a split graph. This graph has also been called a K(2, p).

Given a graph G, one may write bk(G) for the largest book (of the kind being considered) contained within G.

The term "book-graph" has been employed for other uses. Barioli used it to mean a graph composed of a number of arbitrary subgraphs having two vertices in common. (Barioli did not write B for his book-graph.)

Book (disambiguation)

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.

Book or Books may also refer to:

  • Book (graph theory), a split graph consisting of p triangles sharing a common edge
  • Book (law school), a common award given by some law schools
  • Book (musical theatre), the spoken dialogue of a stage musical
  • Book (surname)
  • Bob Books (American football) (1903–1954), American football player
  • Book (wagering), a set of odds for the possible outcomes in betting
  • To Book Wallpaper, a step in pasting wallpaper, to activate the paste
  • Book, Louisiana, a community in the United States
  • Book, a 1997 memoir by Whoopi Goldberg
  • Shepherd Book, a character in the Firefly television series and the following film Serenity
  • Book's Covered Bridge
  • Books (EP), a 2004 Extended Play music recording by Belle & Sebastian
  • The Books, an American band
  • J. B. Books, a character in the film The Shootist
  • Book lung, a respiratory organ in some arachnids
  • Book of Life, in which God, on Rosh Hashana, writes the names of those who will live another year
Book (surname)

Book is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anna Book (born 1970), Swedish singer
  • Asher Book (born 1988), American dancer, singer-songwriter and actor
  • Dan Book (born 1983), American songwriter and record producer
  • Ed Book (born 1970), New Zealand basketball player
  • Kim Book (born 1946), English footballer and manager
  • Nils-Ole Book (born 1986), German footballer
  • Raymond Book (born 1925), American politician
  • Steve Book (born 1969), English footballer
  • Todd Book (born 1968), American politician
  • Tony Book (born 1934), English footballer and manager
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Usage examples of "book".

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to acknowledge the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies for their financial assistance with the preparation of this book.

The principal minister of the court of Ravenna, the learned Cassiodorus, gratified the inclination of the conquerors in a Gothic history, which consisted of twelve books, now reduced to the imperfect abridgment of Jornandes.

Gilwyn frowned as he absently went about shelving books from his cart.

Rome, in thirty books, from the fall of Nero to the accession of Nerva.

What made the book different from routine, acerbic attacks on the industry was the scholarly thoroughness of its author, Dr.

Please be aware that these principles are an absolutely essential foundation for understanding the rest of this book, for using the tools of Kabbalah that it presents, and for achieving the connection with the Light that is our true purpose in life.

Thus, all the while that Galileo was inventing modern physics, teaching mathematics to princes, discovering new phenomena among the planets, publishing science books for the general public, and defending his bold theories against establishment enemies, he was also buying thread for Suor Luisa, choosing organ music for Mother Achillea, shipping gifts of food, and supplying his homegrown citrus fruits, wine, and rosemary leaves for the kitchen and apothecary at San Matteo.

Chi, Yoga, or acupressure will make you more aware of the energy in your body and can serve as a useful supplement to this book.

There was a legal adage that hard cases made for bad law, but the books could not anticipate all the things that people did.

So after you have read Metamorphosis, if you are curious about the story of Tasha Yar and Darryl Adin, referred to here, you may decide to seek out Survivors, available wherever Star Trek books are sold.

How is it possible that any human mind could be persuaded that there has existed in the world that infinity of Amadises, and that throng of so many famous knights, so many emperors of Trebizond, so many Felixmartes of Hyrcania, so many palfreys and wandering damsels, so many serpents and dragons and giants, so many unparalleled adventures and different kinds of enchantments, so many battles and fierce encounters, so much splendid attire, so many enamored princesses and squires who are counts and dwarves who are charming, so many love letters, so much wooing, so many valiant women, and, finally, so many nonsensical matters as are contained in books of chivalry?

I saw the Common Sense Medical Adviser advertised and sent for the book and studied its contents carefully, and came to the conclusion that I was suffering from varicocele.

How to create your yellow page advertisement The creation of a phone book advertisement differs from general display advertising.

I regret that I have spent my life until now without knowing that a grimoire is a book of magic spells, or that an adytum is the inner sanctum of a temple.

Mark Twain wrote: I must steal half a moment from my work to say how glad I am to have your book and how highly I value it, both for its own sake and as a remembrance of an affectionate friendship which has subsisted between us for nine years without a break and without a single act of violence that I can call to mind.