book
书,书籍,图书,书本
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- : a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- : a work of fiction or nonfiction in an electronic format: Your child can listen to or read the book online.See also e-book.
- : a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.
- : a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions.
- : the Book, the Bible.
- : Music. the text or libretto of an opera, operetta, or musical.
- : books. book of account.
- : Jazz. the total repertoire of a band.
- : a script or story for a play.
- : a record of bets, as on a horse race.
- : Cards. the number of basic tricks or cards that must be taken before any trick or card counts in the score.
- : a set or packet of tickets, checks, stamps, matches, etc., bound together like a book.
- : anything that serves for the recording of facts or events: The petrified tree was a book of Nature.
- : Sports. a collection of facts and information about the usual playing habits, weaknesses, methods, etc., of an opposing team or player, especially in baseball: The White Sox book on Mickey Mantle cautioned pitchers to keep the ball fast and high.
- : Stock Exchange. the customers served by each registered representative in a brokerage house.a loose-leaf binder kept by a specialist to record orders to buy and sell stock at specified prices.
- : a pile or package of leaves, as of tobacco.
- : Mineralogy. a thick block or crystal of mica.
- : a magazine: used especially in magazine publishing.
- : book value.
- : Slang. bookmaker.
- : the book, a set of rules, conventions, or standards: The solution was not according to the book but it served the purpose.the telephone book: I've looked him up, but he's not in the book.
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- : to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- : to reserve or make a reservation for: We booked a table at our favorite restaurant.
- : to register or list for a place, transportation, appointment, etc.: The travel agent booked us for next week's cruise.
- : to engage for one or more performances.
- : to enter an official charge against on a police register.
- : to act as a bookmaker for: The Philadelphia syndicate books 25 million dollars a year on horse racing.
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- : to register one's name.
- : to engage a place, services, etc.
- : Slang. to study hard, as a student before an exam: He left the party early to book.to leave; depart: I'm bored with this party, let's book.to work as a bookmaker: He started a restaurant with money he got from booking.
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- : of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
- : derived or learned from or based on books: a book knowledge of sailing.
- : shown by a book of account: The firm's book profit was $53,680.
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- : book in, to sign in, as at a job.
- : book out, to sign out, as at a job.
- : book up, to sell out in advance: The hotel is booked up for the Christmas holidays.
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She waited for my rant to finish and then reminded me that the book, still in my hand, was one I had pulled from her own bookshelf.
I defy you to read the book—or, worse, review the Twitter commentary about it—and come away feeling good about the prospects for American comity.
Such deals aren’t typically part of Warren Buffett’s play book, although in 2018 Berkshire invested in the initial offering of Brazilian fintech StoneCo Ltd.
On the other side, in March everyone who booked a trip cancelled it.
More than two decades ago, I wrote a book with my New York Times colleagues Judith Miller and Bill Broad called “Germs” that looked at the modern history of biological warfare.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.
Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.
At some point during his busy schedule, Israel found the time to write a book, titled The Global War on Morris.
My publisher had asked, “If you wanted to write another book, what would you want to write about?”
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
But Mrs. Dodd, the present vicar's wife, retained the precious prerogative of choosing the book to be read at the monthly Dorcas.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.