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book

  [book]
Use Books in a Sentence
–noun
1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.
3. a division of a literary work, esp. one of the larger divisions.
4. the Book, the Bible.
5. Music. the text or libretto of an opera, operetta, or musical.
6. books. book of account.
7. Jazz. the total repertoire of a band.
8. a script or story for a play.
9. a record of bets, as on a horse race.
10. Cards. the number of basic tricks or cards that must be taken before any trick or card counts in the score.
11. a set or packet of tickets, checks, stamps, matches, etc., bound together like a book.
12. anything that serves for the recording of facts or events: The petrified tree was a book of Nature.
13. Sports. a collection of facts and information about the usual playing habits, weaknesses, methods, etc., of an opposing team or player, esp. in baseball: The White Sox book on Mickey Mantle cautioned pitchers to keep the ball fast and high.
14. Stock Exchange.
a. the customers served by each registered representative in a brokerage house.
b. a loose-leaf binder kept by a specialist to record orders to buy and sell stock at specified prices.
15. a pile or package of leaves, as of tobacco.
16. Mineralogy. a thick block or crystal of mica.
17. a magazine: used esp. in magazine publishing.
18. book value.
19. Slang. bookmaker (def. 1).
20. the book,
a. a set of rules, conventions, or standards: The solution was not according to the book but it served the purpose.
b. the telephone book: I've looked him up, but he's not in the book.
–verb (used with object)
21. to enter in a book or list; record; register.
22. to reserve or make a reservation for (a hotel room, passage on a ship, etc.): We booked a table at our favorite restaurant.
23. to register or list (a person) for a place, transportation, appointment, etc.: The travel agent booked us for next week's cruise.
24. to engage for one or more performances.
25. to enter an official charge against (an arrested suspect) on a police register.
26. to act as a bookmaker for (a bettor, bet, or sum of money): The Philadelphia syndicate books 25 million dollars a year on horse racing.
–verb (used without object)
27. to register one's name.
28. to engage a place, services, etc.
29. Slang.
a. to study hard, as a student before an exam: He left the party early to book.
b. to leave; depart: I'm bored with this party, let's book.
c. to work as a bookmaker: He started a restaurant with money he got from booking.
–adjective
30. of or pertaining to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
31. derived or learned from or based on books: a book knowledge of sailing.
32. shown by a book of account: The firm's book profit was $53,680.
—Verb phrases
33. book in, to sign in, as at a job.
34. book out, to sign out, as at a job.
35. book up, to sell out in advance: The hotel is booked up for the Christmas holidays.
—Idioms
36. bring to book, to call to account; bring to justice: Someday he will be brought to book for his misdeeds.
37. by the book, according to the correct or established form; in the usual manner: an unimaginative individual who does everything by the book.
38. close the books, to balance accounts at the end of an accounting period; settle accounts.
39. cook the books, Informal. cook (def. 10).
40. in one's bad books, out of favor; disliked by someone: He's in the boss's bad books.
41. in one's book, in one's personal judgment or opinion: In my book, he's not to be trusted.
42. in one's good books, in favor; liked by someone.
43. like a book, completely; thoroughly: She knew the area like a book.
44. make book,
a. to accept or place the bets of others, as on horse races, esp. as a business.
b. to wager; bet: You can make book on it that he won't arrive in time.
45. off the books, done or performed for cash or without keeping full business records: esp. as a way to avoid paying income tax, employment benefits, etc.: Much of his work as a night watchman is done off the books.
46. one for the book or books, a noteworthy incident; something extraordinary: The daring rescue was one for the book.
47. on the books, entered in a list or record: He claims to have graduated from Harvard, but his name is not on the books.
48. throw the book at, Informal.
a. to sentence (an offender, lawbreaker, etc.) to the maximum penalties for all charges against that person.
b. to punish or chide severely.
49. without book,
a. from memory.
b. without authority: to punish without book.
50. write the book, to be the prototype, originator, leader, etc., of: So far as investment banking is concerned, they wrote the book.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE bōc; c. D boek, ON bōk, G Buch; akin to Goth boka letter (of the alphabet) and not of known relation to beech, as is often assumed

Related forms:
bookless, adjective
booklike, adjective

Synonyms:
24. reserve, schedule, bill, slate, program.

Antonyms:
24. cancel.
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book   (bŏŏk)   
n.  
  1. A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
    1. A printed or written literary work.
    2. A main division of a larger printed or written work: a book of the Old Testament.
    3. A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
    4. books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.
    5. A libretto.
    6. The script of a play.
    7. The Bible.
    8. The Koran.
    9. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    10. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    11. 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.
    12. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
    1. A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
    2. books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.
    3. A libretto.
    4. The script of a play.
    5. The Bible.
    6. The Koran.
    7. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    8. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    9. 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.
    10. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
    1. A libretto.
    2. The script of a play.
    3. The Bible.
    4. The Koran.
    5. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    6. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    7. 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.
    8. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
  5. Book
    1. The Bible.
    2. The Koran.
    3. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    4. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    5. 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.
    6. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
    1. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    2. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    3. 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.
    4. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
  7. A packet of like or similar items bound together: a book of matches.
  8. A record of bets placed on a race.
  9. Games 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.
v.   booked, book·ing, books

v.   tr.
  1. To list or register in or as if in a book.
    1. To record charges against (a person) on a police blotter.
    2. Sports To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
  3. To arrange for (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
  4. To hire or engage: The manager booked a magic show for Saturday night.
  5. To allocate time for.
v.   intr.
To make a reservation: Book early if you want good seats.
adj.  
  1. Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience: has book smarts but not street smarts.
  2. Appearing in a company's financial records: book profits.

[Middle English bok, from Old English bōc; see bhāgo- in Indo-European roots.]
book'er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to cause something to be set aside in advance, as for one's use or possession: will book a hotel room; made sure their selections were bespoken; engaged a box for the opera season; reserving a table at a restaurant.

Word History: From an etymological perspective, book and beech are branches of the same tree. The Germanic root of both words is *bōk-, ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning "beech tree." The Old English form of book is bōc, from Germanic *bōk-ō, "written document, book." The Old English form of beech is bēce, from Germanic *bōk-jōn, "beech tree," because the early Germanic peoples used strips of beech wood to write on. A similar semantic development occurred in Latin. The Latin word for book is liber, whence library. Liber, however, originally meant "bark"—that is, the smooth inner bark of a tree, which the early Romans likewise used to write on.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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