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.
in one's bad books, out of favor; disliked by someone: He's in the boss's bad books.
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in one's book, in one's personal judgment or opinion: In my book, he's not to be trusted.
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in one's good books, in favor; liked by someone.
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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.
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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.
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one for the book or books, a noteworthy incident; something extraordinary: The daring rescue was one for the book.
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on the books, entered in a list or record: He claims to have graduated from Harvard, but his name is not on the books.
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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.
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without book,
a.
from memory.
b.
without authority: to punish without book.
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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
A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
A printed or written literary work.
A main division of a larger printed or written work: a book of the Old Testament.
A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.
A libretto.
The script of a play.
The Bible.
The Koran.
A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
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.
Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.
A libretto.
The script of a play.
The Bible.
The Koran.
A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
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.
Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
A libretto.
The script of a play.
The Bible.
The Koran.
A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
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.
Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
Book
The Bible.
The Koran.
A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
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.
Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
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.
Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
A packet of like or similar items bound together: a book of matches.
A record of bets placed on a race.
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.
To list or register in or as if in a book.
To record charges against (a person) on a police blotter.
Sports To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
To arrange for (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
To hire or engage: The manager booked a magic show for Saturday night.
To allocate time for.
v.
intr. To make a reservation: Book early if you want good seats. adj.
Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience: has book smarts but not street smarts.
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.
O.E. boc, traditionally from P.Gmc. *bokiz "beech" (cf. Ger. Buch "book" Buche "beech;" the notion being of beechwood tablets on which runes were inscribed), but may be from the tree itself (people still carve initials in them). The O.E. originally meant any written document. Latin and Sanskrit also have words for "writing" that are based on tree names ("birch" and "ash," respectively). Meaning "libretto of an opera" is from 1768. Verb meaning "to enter for a seat or place, issue (railway) tickets" is from 1841; "to engage a performer as a guest" is from 1872. Booklet, with dim. suffix, first recorded 1859. A betting book is from 1856; bookmaker in the wagering sense is from 1862; shortened form bookie is attested from 1885.
Also, one for the book. An outstanding or unusual achievement or event, as in All of the main awards went to one picturethat's one for the books. This expression originally alluded to record books kept for sports but soon was applied to other endeavors. [Colloquial; c. 1900]
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that's one for the books. This expression originally alluded to record books kept for sports but soon was applied to other endeavors. [Colloquial; c. 1900]