book
noun
- 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 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.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- 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.
adjective
Verb Phrases
Idioms for book
- to accept or place the bets of others, as on horse races, especially as a business.
- to wager; bet: You can make book on it that he won't arrive in time.
- to sentence (an offender, lawbreaker, etc.) to the maximum penalties for all charges against that person.
- to punish or chide severely.
- from memory.
- without authority: to punish without book.
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Example sentences from the Web for book
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President |Pierre Assouline |January 9, 2015 |DAILY BEASTAt some point during his busy schedule, Israel found the time to write a book, titled The Global War on Morris.
Completed in 1953 and composed with standard line breaks and punctuation, the book was completely ignored upon submission.
Perhaps, as Dwight Garner wrote, Steinberg just needed an idea for a book.
Fred Logevall at Cornell won the Pulitzer Prize and is a diplomatic historian; he just started a book on Kennedy.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society |Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEASTSeeing that they looked at the book, I turned the page quickly to hide the note.
Eastern Nights - and Flights |Alan BottAnd in the book it said, "It can be maintained that the evil of pride consists in being out of proportion to the universe."
Tremendous Trifles |G. K. ChestertonThe omission of the book numbered 88 will also have been remarked.
Immortal Memories |Clement ShorterOn the hand lying upon the book there fell a bright sunbeam.
Christian Gellert's Last Christmas |Berthold AuerbachThe Book of Jonah was written directly in rebuke of one form of Jewish exclusiveness.
Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther |Walter Adeney
British Dictionary definitions for book
noun
- a written work or composition, such as a novel, technical manual, or dictionary
- (as modifier)the book trade; book reviews
- (in combination)bookseller; bookshop; bookshelf; bookrack
- enrolled as a member
- registered or recorded
- to charge with every relevant offence
- to inflict the most severe punishment on
verb
Word Origin for book
Idioms and Phrases with book
see balance the books; black book; bring to book; by the book; closed book; close the books; cook the books; crack a book; hit the books; in one's book; in someone's bad graces (books); judge a book by its cover; know like a book; make book; nose in a book; one for the books; open book; take a leaf out of someone's book; throw the book at; wrote the book on.