Book meaning
An e-book or other electronic resource structured like a book.
noun
The definition of book is a story or collection of stories that can be read.
An example of book is a novel by John Grisham.
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To book is defined as to make reservations for something in advance.
An example of book is when you buy airline ticket reservations.
verb
A record of bets placed on a race.
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A pack of like or similar items bound together.
A book of matches.
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The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.
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A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
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A printed or written literary work.
Did you ever finish writing that book?
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A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
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Financial or business records considered as a group.
Checked the expenditures on the books.
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A libretto.
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The script of a play.
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The Bible.
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The Koran.
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A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based.
Runs the company by the book.
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Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
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The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task.
We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
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Factual information, especially of a private nature.
What's the book on him?
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To designate a time for; schedule.
Let's book a meeting for next month.
verb
To be hired for or engaged in.
The actor has booked his next movie with that director.
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To arrange for or purchase (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
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To arrange a reservation, as for a hotel room, for (someone).
Book me into the best hotel in town.
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To hire or engage.
Booked a band for Saturday night.
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To list or register in a book.
Booked the revenue from last month's sales.
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To list or record appointments or engagements in.
A calendar that was booked solid on Tuesday.
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To record information about (a suspected offender) after arrest in preparation for arraignment, usually including a criminal history search, fingerprinting, and photographing.
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To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
verb
To make a reservation.
Book early if you want good seats.
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Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience.
Has book smarts but not street smarts.
adjective
Appearing in a company's financial records.
Book profits.
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To move or travel rapidly.
We booked along at a nice clip.
verb
Any of the main divisions of a long written or printed work, as of the Bible.
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Something regarded as a subject for study.
The book of life.
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The body of facts, traits, or circumstances connected with a person or subject, esp. as being understandable, evident, etc. [an open book] or obscure, done with, etc.
A closed book.
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Studies; lessons.
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A booklike package, as of matches or tickets.
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A certain number of tricks that must be won before additional tricks count in the score; specif., the first six tricks won by the declarer.
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A number of sheets of paper, parchment, etc. with writing or printing on them, fastened together along one edge, usually between protective covers.
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A literary or scientific work, anthology, etc. so prepared, distinguished by length and form from a magazine, tract, etc.
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A set of blank or ruled sheets or printed forms bound in a tablet, for the entry of accounts, records, notes, etc.
An account book.
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The records or accounts, as of a business, kept in such a book or books.
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The words of an opera or musical play; libretto.
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The script of a play.
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A list or record of bets taken and the odds given, as by bookmakers on horse races.
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To record in a book; list.
verb
To engage ahead of time, as rooms, transportation, performers or performances, etc.
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To record charges against on a police record.
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To take (bets) as a bookmaker.
verb
In, from, or according to books or accounts.
adjective
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A trader’s positions, or list of investments.
A broker’s or investment manager’s list of clients, which is called a book of business.
A ledger or register recording particular transactions or events such as financial transactions and police arrests.
To enter or record the details of a transaction or event into such a book.
The process at a police station of completing an arrest, including fingerprinting and photographing the defendant.
verb
A main division of a larger printed or written work.
A book of the Old Testament.
noun
Origin of book
Middle English bok from Old English bōc bhāgo- in Indo-European roots