book
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: bo͝ok, IPA(key): /bʊk/
- enPR: bo͞ok IPA(key): /buːk/ (Tyneside; otherwise obsolete)[1]
pluralAudio (US) (file) Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊk
- Homophone: buck (accents without the foot–strut split)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.
Alternative formsEdit
- booke (archaic)
NounEdit
book (plural books)
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3, column 1:
- Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furniſhd me / From mine owne Library, with volumes, that / I prize aboue my Dukedome.
- 1962, James East Irby translating Luis Borges as "The Library of Babel":
- I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.
- 1983, Steve Horelick & al., "Reading Rainbow":
- I can be anything.
Take a look!
It's in a book:
A reading rainbow.
- I can be anything.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51:
- Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’
- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- I have three copies of his first book.
- 2022 December 6, Stephen Marche, quoting Sam Bankman-Fried, “The College Essay Is Dead”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- “I would never read a book,” he once told an interviewer. “I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.”
- A major division of a long work.
- (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
- Synonym: booklet
- (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
- Synonym: libretto
- 2010, David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide (page 172)
- The guild helps ensure that the ownership and control of the music, lyrics, and book of a show remain in the hands of its authors and composers—not the producers.
- (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
- (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
- (poker slang) Four of a kind.[2]
- (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
- (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- 2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC[2]:
- Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (figurative) Any source of instruction.
- (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)
- The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.
- 1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly (volume 21, page 36)
- On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.
- 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)
- (advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
- 2017, Nik Mahon, Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction (page 8)
- Getting your book (portfolio) organised is the first step, and knowing both what to include, and what to leave out, is an essential step towards achieving that important agency placement.
- Idea Industry (page 27)
- Your portfolio — your book — has to be killer.
- 2017, Nik Mahon, Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction (page 8)
- (chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
- The opposite-colored bishops endgame is usually a book draw.
- 2018 April 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Schoolboy Vincent Keymer secures shock triumph at Grenke Open”, in The Guardian[3], archived from the original on 2023-01-12:
- White to move and win. How can he do it? The BK plans a march to h8, eating the f4 pawn en route, for a book draw.
- 2020, Andrew Soltis, How to Swindle in Chess, Batsford Books, →ISBN:
- This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook. In some cases a book draw is possible. But a book win is more likely.
SynonymsEdit
- See Thesaurus:book
HyponymsEdit
- See Thesaurus:book
Derived termsEdit
- address book
- audiobook
- back of the book
- book account
- book agent
- book-answerer
- book award
- book-bearer
- bookbinder
- book-board
- book-bosomed
- book-bound
- book-boy
- book-burning
- bookcase
- book-cloth
- book club
- book canvasser
- book concern
- book-crab
- book-credit
- book-debt
- book-edge gilder
- book-edge marbler
- book end
- bookend
- bookery
- booketeria
- book-farmer
- book-folder
- book-form
- bookful
- book-ghoul
- book-gill
- book hand
- book-holder
- bookhood
- bookhouse
- book-hunt
- bookie
- bookish
- bookism
- bookjacket
- bookkeeper
- bookkeeping
- book-label
- book-lare
- book launch
- book-law
- book-lear
- book-learned
- book-learning
- book-length
- bookless
- booklet
- booklike
- bookling
- booklore
- booklouse
- booklover
- book lover
- book lung
- bookly
- bookmaker
- bookmaking
- bookman
- bookmark
- bookmarker
- book match
- book-mate
- book-mindedness
- book mite
- bookmobile
- book-muslin
- book name
- book-number
- book-oath
- book of condolence
- book of first entry
- Book of God
- book of lading
- book of life
- book of original entry
- book of rates
- book of reference
- Book of the Dead
- book of the film
- book of the living
- book of words
- book-packet
- book piles
- bookplate
- book pocket
- book-post
- book-postage
- book-press
- book price
- book prop
- book-rate
- book-read
- bookrest
- bookroom
- book-scorpion
- bookseller
- bookselling
- bookshelf
- bookshop
- book-shy
- booksie
- book-slide
- book-society
- book-stack
- bookstaff
- bookstall
- book-stamp
- bookstand
- bookstore
- book support
- booksy
- book-table
- book token
- book trade
- book-tray
- book-trough
- book type
- book value
- bookwards
- book-ways
- bookwise
- bookwork
- book-world
- bookworm
- book-wright
- booky
- bring to book
- burn book
- by-book
- by the book
- casebook
- cashbook
- checkbook
- chequebook
- cheque book
- closed book
- close the books
- coffee table book
- coffee-table book
- comic book
- cookbook
- cookery book
- cook the books
- copybook
- coursebook
- e-book
- emblem book
- exercise book
- forebook
- fuck book
- Good Book
- guest book
- guidebook
- handbook
- hold the book
- hornbook
- hymn book
- in anyone's book
- in my book
- in someone's bad books
- in someone's good books
- in the books
- keep the book
- know like a book
- logbook
- make book
- matchbook
- notebook
- off the books
- on the book
- on the books
- open book
- passbook
- pattern book
- pension book
- phrasebook
- pocketbook
- prayer book
- ration book
- read like a book
- reading book
- record book
- reference book
- rough book
- runbook
- scrapbook
- sketch book
- spellbook
- songbook
- storybook
- suit one's book
- take a leaf out of someone's book
- talk like a book
- textbook
- throw the book at
- visitors' book
- without book
- Wizard Book
- wordbook
- workbook
- yearbook
- ABC book
- absey book
- absey-book
- account book
- activity book
- airport book
- alphabet book
- American comic book
- audio book
- audio-book
- autograph book
- baby book
- bath book
- birthday book
- block book
- blot one's copy book
- blue book
- blue book exam
- board book
- book bin
- book burning
- book deal
- book debt
- book drop
- book dumping
- book entry
- book fair
- book in
- book it
- book keeping
- book knowledge
- book learning
- book lore
- book muslin
- book number
- book of business
- book of hours
- book of nature
- book of prime entry
- book of shadows
- book report
- book return
- book scorpion
- book shop
- book signing
- book smart
- book steak
- book store
- book tour
- book up
- book word
- book worm
- book-burner
- book-keep
- book-keeper
- book-keeping
- book-knowledge
- book-lore
- book-lung
- book-ridden
- book-signing
- book-smart
- book-teaching
- book-token
- book-wise
- book-word
- brag book
- by-the-book
- case book
- case-book
- chapter book
- close the book on
- closed-book
- coloring book
- colouring book
- commonplace book
- commonplace-book
- composition book
- cook book
- cost-book
- crack a book
- day book
- death book
- don't judge a book by its cover
- Dutch book
- e-book reader
- edited book
- electronic book
- every trick in the book
- fake book
- field book
- field-book
- flip book
- form book
- friendship book
- funny book
- good book
- guard book
- guide book
- have more chins than a Chinese phone book
- history book
- hymn-book
- in one's book
- joke book
- kiss the book
- know every trick in the book
- little black book
- log book
- log-book
- look book
- look-out book
- mag book
- make a book
- mug book
- murder book
- never judge a book by its cover
- note book
- off book
- off-book
- open book decomposition
- open-book
- open-book contract
- order book
- out of book
- paper book
- phone book
- phrase book
- phrase-book
- picture book
- pocket book
- pocket-book
- poll book
- rag book
- read like an open book
- recipe book
- red book
- regie-book
- rhyme book
- rime book
- rip a page out of someone's book
- rough-book
- rule book
- rule-book
- run book
- school book
- scrap book
- slam book
- song book
- splat book
- squawk book
- statute book
- sticker book
- stroke book
- stud book
- stud-book
- take a page out of someone's book
- talking book
- telephone book
- text-book
- the oldest trick in the book
- time-book
- toilet book
- trade book
- travel book
- turn up for the book
- turn-up for the book
- visitor's book
- why buy a book when you can join a library
- why buy a book when you can join the library
- winter book
- write the book
- yardage book
- year-book
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't tell a book by its cover
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: buku
- Tok Pisin: buk
- → Rotokas: vuku
- → Chichewa: buku
- → Hawaiian: puke
- → Malagasy: boky
- → Maori: pukapuka (with reduplication)
- → Marshallese: bok
- → Motu: buka
- → Malagasy: boky
- → Shona: bhuku
- → Somali: buugga
- → Sotho: buka (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)
- → Zulu: ibhuku (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)
TranslationsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).
VerbEdit
book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)
- (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
- I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
- Synonym: reserve
- (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- (sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- He was here earlier, but he booked.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”).
VerbEdit
book
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “Book” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 118, column 2.
- ^ Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
AnagramsEdit
ChineseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
book
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to book; to reserve
Related termsEdit
LimburgishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Low German bôk, from Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
book n
- (many dialects) book
DeclensionEdit
Singular | Plural | |||||||
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Root | Mutation | Diminutive | Diminutive Mutation | Root | Mutation | Diminutive | Diminutive Mutation | |
Nominative | book | pook | beukske | peukske | beuk | peuk | beukskes | peukskes |
Genitive | books | pooks | beukskes | peukskes | beuk | peuk | beukskes | peukskes |
Locative | bokes | pokes | bokeske | pokeske | bokese | pokese | bokeskes | pokeskes |
Dative | bokem (archaic) | pokem (archaic) | beukskem (archaic) | peukskem (archaic) | beuk | peuk | beukskes | peukskes |
Accusative | book | pook | beukske | peukske | beuk | peuk | beukskes | peukskes |
Derived termsEdit
MansakaEdit
NounEdit
book
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
book
- Alternative form of bok
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
book
- Alternative form of bouk
Norwegian BokmålEdit
VerbEdit
book
- imperative of booke