The Collaborative International Dictionary
Text-book \Text"-book`\, n.
A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.
Usage examples of "text-book".
Indeed this whole subject, the virtual anticipation of our nineteenth-century principles of aseptic surgery in the thirteenth century, is not a dream nor a far-fetched explanation when one knows enough about the directions that were laid down in the surgical text-books of that time.
And when the travelers, after a refreshing rest, went on their way next morning, considering the Elements and the pianos and the refinement, to say nothing of the cuisine, which is not treated of in the text-book referred to, they were content with a bill double that of brother Egger, in his brick magnificence.
I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great work on Smells, a text-book on that subject.
Plato--which is as modern in feeling and phrase as anything done in Boston--in the naif and direct Herodotus, and, above all, in the King James vernacular translation of the Bible, which is the great text-book of all modern literature.
On the whole, therefore, the text-book seems more likely to meet the conditions of the laws of apperception and self-activity, than would the lecture method.
Freeburg as one of the text-books in the Columbia University School of Journalism, in his classes in photoplay writing.
James Thomson, was the author of several mathematical text-books, and occupied for some time the position of lecturer on mathematics at the Royal Academical Institute in Belfast, from whence he was transferred to the mathematical professorship of Glasgow University.
Seventh Fleet lay in wait, in text-book Battle Line formation: in all, forty-two warships against eight, six battleships against two.
This is so much cited in text-books on Mendelism that the student might think it is a common character.
I had been busy, more or less, with the pages of Blackstone and Chitty, and other text-books of the first year of legal study.
I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great work on Smells, a text-book on that subject.
Rousseau, a citizen of Geneva, followed in the next century with his Contrat Social, the text-book of the French revolutionists--almost their Bible--and put the finishing stroke to the theory.
They will be left, as the mathematics text-books put it, as an exercise for the reader.
Indeed, it is sometimes laid down generally, in reputable text-books, that a gratuitous bailment does not change the possession, but leaves it in the bailor.
A committed liberal, he had shaped his lab in the 1930s to make space for a generation of refugees from Nazism who were later, in England and the US, to provide the cornerstones of research into modern biochemistry and in doing so to win a clutch of Nobel Prizes and find themselves enshrined in every student's text-book: Hans Krebs, Fritz Lipmann, Ernst Chain, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi and many others.