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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>BOOK</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="book"> book, noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. written or printed sheets of paper bound together between covers. Ex. She read the first two chapters of her book. (SYN) volume. <DD> 2. blank sheets bound together. Ex. You can keep a record of what you spend in this book. <DD> 3. a main division of a book. Ex. a poem divided into twelve books. Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament. <DD> 4. anything thought of as containing lessons or instructions. Ex. the book of nature. <DD> 5a. the words of an opera, operetta, or other musical drama or comedy; libretto. Ex. W. S. Gilbert wrote the books of the Gilbert and Sullivan light operas. <DD> b. the script of a play. <DD> 6a. a record of bets, especially on a horse race. <DD> b. (U.S. Informal.) =bookmaker. <DD> 7. something fastened together like a book. Ex. a book of tickets, stamps, or checks. <DD> 8. a specified number of tricks forming a set in a card game. <DD> 9. a large bundle consisting of 15 double skeins or 30 small skeins of raw silk. (Abbr:) bk. <DD>v.t. 1. to make reservations to get tickets or to engage service. Ex. He has booked passage by air from New York to London. (SYN) reserve. <DD> 2. to make accommodations for. Ex. to book a passenger from New York to Boston on a plane. <DD> 3. to make engagements for; engage. Ex. The lecturer is booked for every night of the week. <DD> 4a. to enter a charge against (a person) in a police record. Ex. He booked the suspect on a charge of breaking and entering. <DD> b. to enter, write, or register in a book or list. (SYN) record. <DD>v.i. to engage passage, a seat, a place, or other accommodation, beforehand. Ex. Sam Weller booked for them all (Dickens). <DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with books. Ex. a book salesman, the book trade. <DD> 2. according to books; learned from books. Ex. book lore. <DD> 3. shown on books of account. Ex. a book loss of 10 cents a share of stock, a net book profit of $1 million from the sale. expr. be in (someone's) bad books, be in disfavor with one. Ex. The Arminians ... at that time were in his bad books (W. Perry). expr. book in, <DD> a. to enter the arrival of an employee in a book. Ex. Wanted young lady, ... one able to book in (London Daily Chronicle). <DD> b. to register one's arrival. Ex. In any fleet garage at shift time, at any cashier's cage where the men book in ... (New York Times Magazine). expr. book off, (British.) to record one's going off duty in a book. Ex. Tonight he drives his engine for the last time. Tomorrow he "books off" ... and the Line knows him no more (Observer). expr. books, the complete records of a business: especially records of business accounts. Ex. If you received the note from us, it must be entered in our books (Maria Edgeworth). expr. bring to book, <DD> a. to demand an explanation from. Ex. His employer brought him to book over the missing stock. <DD> b. to call to account; rebuke. Ex. We shall have to bring him to book about his poor standard of work. <DD> c. to examine the evidence for; investigate. Ex. By means of these figures we bring the matter, as it were, to book, and eliminate tangible results (Cassel's Technical Education). expr. by the book, <DD> a. by rule; accurately. Ex. He played the game carelessly and not by the book. <DD> b. with careful attention to prescribed detail. Ex. to work by the book. expr. close the books, <DD> a. to stop entering items in an account book to balance the account, draw up statements, or the like. Ex. The books were closed for the audit. <DD> b. (Figurative.) to bring anything to an end. Ex. After the criminal's trial and conviction, the district attorney finally closed the books on the case. expr. in one's book, (U.S. Informal.) in one's opinion or judgment. Ex. In my book, he's the best writer of fiction now living. expr. in one's good books, in favor with one; in one's good opinion. Ex. The new pupil wanted to be in the teacher's good books. expr. in the book, on record; known. Ex. He ... has amassed a total of 46 convictions for almost every con game in the book (Maclean's). expr. keep a book, to run a betting system, usually small and unlawful. Ex. The police raided the house where he was keeping a book. expr. keep books, to keep a record of business accounts. Ex. An accountant keeps books for the grocer. expr. like a book, with fullness or accuracy; completely. Ex. Good teachers know their students like a book. expr. make book, (U.S.) to take bets. Ex. I'll make book on him. If anybody in the world can save [it], he can (New Yorker). expr. one for the book, something exceptional or extraordinary. Ex. Two half brothers in the same race is a rarity; three is one for the book (New Yorker). expr. on the books, enrolled on the official list, especially of students or members, or listed as part of a group of patients, clients, customers with charge account privileges, or the like. Ex. She ... continued on the books as an outpatient (H. Watson). expr. suit one's book, to be favorable to one's aims. Ex. [She will] sell other nations down the river when it suits her book (Manchester Guardian Weekly). expr. the book, <DD> a. the Bible. Ex. "Swear," added Enoch sternly, "on the book," And on the book, half-frightened, Miriam swore (Tennyson). <DD> b. the telephone book. Ex. Give me a call soon; my name is in the book. expr. throw the book at, (U.S. Slang.) to punish to the full limit of the law. Ex. The judge threw the book at the man who had slugged a policeman. expr. without book, <DD> a. by memory; without reading; without notes. Ex. He ... speaks three or four languages word for word without book (Shakespeare). <DD> b. without authority. Ex. To show you that I do not speak wholly without book (John Locke). adj. bookable. </DL> <A NAME="bookbank"> book bank,<DL COMPACT><DD> a place where used books are collected and usually sold to raise funds for a charitable cause. </DL> <A NAME="bookbinder"> bookbinder, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person whose work or business is binding books; binder. <DD> 2. a binder for preserving loose printed sheets, separate issues of a publication, or the like. </DL> <A NAME="bookbindery"> bookbindery, noun, pl. -eries.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an establishment for binding books; bindery. </DL> <A NAME="bookbinding"> bookbinding, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the binding on a book. <DD> 2. the act, art, or business of binding books. </DL> <A NAME="bookburning"> book burning,<DL COMPACT><DD> the destruction or removal of books as a means of suppressing or restricting the free exchange of ideas, opinions, and beliefs. </DL> <A NAME="bookcase"> bookcase, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of furniture with shelves for holding books. </DL> <A NAME="bookclub"> book club,<DL COMPACT><DD> a business organization that supplies certain books regularly to its subscribers, usually at a reduced rate. </DL> <A NAME="bookend"> book end,<DL COMPACT><DD> a prop or support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright. </DL> <A NAME="booker"> booker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who enters or secures reservations, especially of space for travel, theater seats, rooms in a hotel, or the like. </DL> <A NAME="bookfair"> book fair,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a fair at which books are displayed by publishers to promote and sell them or to sell rights to them. <DD> 2. a sale or auction of books for some charity or other special purpose. Authors often make personal appearances at such fairs. </DL> <A NAME="bookie"> bookie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a bookmaker (def. 1). </DL> <A NAME="booking"> booking, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. the action of engaging a seat or place. <DD> b. the issuing of tickets, entitling to a seat or place. <DD> 2. the condition of being engaged to do something; engagement to perform, lecture, play, or the like. </DL> <A NAME="bookingagent"> booking agent,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who makes reservations, sells tickets, or the like. <DD> 2. a person who obtains engagements, plans schedules, and the like, for singers, musicians, lecturers, or other performers. </DL> <A NAME="bookingclerk"> booking clerk,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a booking agent. </DL> <A NAME="bookinghall"> booking hall,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a place where tickets are sold in a railway station or the like. </DL> <A NAME="bookingoffice"> booking office,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a ticket office, such as in a railway station or at a theater. </DL> <A NAME="bookinventory"> book inventory,<DL COMPACT><DD> an inventory made by a check of books of account instead of by counting stock. </DL> <A NAME="bookish"> bookish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. fond of reading or studying; studious. Ex. The bookish boy spent many hours reading. (SYN) scholarly. <DD> 2. knowing books better than real life. Ex. The scholar was a bookish man, lost in the business world. (SYN) impractical. <DD> 3. stiffly dignified or formal; scholarly in a dull and narrow way; stilted. Ex. His conversation was sprinkled with bookish phrases. (SYN) learned, pedantic. <DD> 4. of or having to do with books; literary. adv. bookishly. </DL> <A NAME="bookishness"> bookishness, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a fondness for books or study; learning. <DD> 2. knowledge only from books. Ex. Diderot despised mere bookishness (John Morley). </DL> <A HREF="bookjack.dic">NEXT</A>