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book English

Meaning book meaning

What does book mean?
Definitions in simple English

book Noun

— A book is a lot of paper joined together with writing and pictures printed on them for you to read or write in. I borrow books from the library, and keep them in a bookcase. — A book is a group of stamps, matches, tickets, etc., held together inside a paper cover. — A company's books are its money records. An outside accountant kept the books and signed the checks until he joined the company.

book Verb

— If you book something or someone, you reserve them for a certain time. I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night. I can book tickets for the concert next week. — If you book someone, you officially put their name in police records for a crime. The police booked him for driving too fast.

book

— noun a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) I am reading a good book on economics — noun physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together he used a large book as a doorstop — verb engage for a performance Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo — noun (= record, record book) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone Al Smith used to say, 'Let's look at the record' his name is in all the record books — verb record a charge in a police register The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man — noun (= script) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance — verb (= reserve, hold) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance reserve me a seat on a flight The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family please hold a table at Maxim's — verb register in a hotel booker — noun a major division of a long written composition the book of Isaiah — noun a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made they run things by the book around here — noun a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game — noun a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge he bought a book of stamps — noun a record in which commercial accounts are recorded they got a subpoena to examine our books

Book

— noun (= Word) the sacred writings of the Christian religions he went to carry the Word to the heathen — noun (= Koran) the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina

Synonyms book synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as book?

Book English » English

Scripture Holy Writ Holy Scripture Good Book Bible al-Qur’an Word of God Quran Koran Christian Bible Word

book English » English

reserve paper letter volume notebook register books writing order document work record treatise script publication hold account book tome text playscript page manuscript mail literary work leger ledger journal enroll booklet book of account betting-book write tell set aside scenario rule book record book procure newspaper magazine log literature list leaf keep inventory inscribe file engage dictate

Topics book topics

What do people use book to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Written material
Social behavior Government Government functions Police

Arrest
Language and thought Teach

School
Social behavior Religion Theology

Sacred writings
States Quality Good

Right, proper

Conjugation book conjugation

How do you conjugate book?

book · verb

Examples book examples

How do I use book in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
You must return the book to him.
You need not have bought the book.
You have only to read a few pages of this book.
You should by all means read the book.
I want you to read this book.
Open your book to page nine.
I ordered a book from London.
Have you read the book yet?
Tom says that he can read a French book.
You may choose whichever book you like.
I managed to finish the book.
I can't buy a book this expensive.
Take a book and read it.
I read a book while eating.
He spent the evening reading a book.
I have to give back the book before Saturday.
Why do you want to buy this book?
You may keep the book.
Have you read this book already?
Have you read this book yet?
Have you finished reading that book yet?

Movie subtitles

My name is Elder Smith And can I leave this book with you for you to just peruse?
It's an amazing book!
This book gives you the secret to eternal life (Sound good?
Hello, would you like to change religions? I have a free book written by Jesus!
Heigh ho! Just take this book!
How much this book will change your life!
The Book of Mormon (Mormon!
Yes, well, if we have the Book of Mormon, it'll do those Africans a lot of good.
Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to tell you all about a very special book.
Eh, what kind of book?
Well, this book tells you how to find Paradise. through Christ.
He found a brand-new book about Jesus Christ!
Who would like their very own copy of the Book of Mormon?
Well. there's nothing in the Book of Mormon about steak knives!
I sent him my pamphlets and my book.
My articles and my book are quite popular over there.
The Koran is our civil code, our book of science and medicine, the Word of God.
I've been reading a pregnancy book so I know what's going on.
Oh, uh, I did stop by the national archives just to maybe book a field trip for the kids.
So, tell me about the book.
With the old woman's permission, I show here the prayer book in which a woman (from 1921!
With me it's a closed book.
What's that book?
It's my book!
When I got outside, I realised I still had your book.
This morning I put your book in my hand, and here's your book in your hand.
Anne Schuyler's in the Blue Book.
I opened it, and it was a book.
It's all in the book!
You writing a book?
I haven't seen you since the last book club.
We could finish morning surgery half an hour early -- we've very few appointments in the book.
I left my maths book on the table.
George. his irreplaceable book.
When did you last see this book?
I turned back and there was me book, gone.
Oh, I did stop by the National Archives, just to maybe book a field trip for the kids.
So tell me about the book.
Hutter had made Ellen promise not to touch the book which had caused him such frightening visions.

News and current affairs

Having written a book about the hijacking of executive power in the United States in the Bush years, I found myself, in researching new developments, stumbling upon conversations online that embrace narratives of behind-the-scenes manipulation.
As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have shown in their book This Time is Different, over the long sweep of history, post-crisis recoveries in output and employment tend to be decidedly subpar.
The book's plot spans two centuries of revolution.
My new book, The Most Good You Can Do, discusses the emerging new movement called Effective Altruism, and, in doing interviews about the book, I am surprised by how often that question is asked.
We would do well to recall how, at the beginning of the 1990's, book after book was still being written urging US and European corporations to imitate Japan or face certain doom.
It is no fun to read a book or article that says that economic forecasting is best left to computer models that you, the general reader, would need a Ph.D. to understand.
Until recently, many professional economists would be reluctant to write a popular book.
Worse than that, at least until recently, a committee evaluating an economist would likely think that writing a popular economics book that does not repeat the received wisdom of the discipline might even be professionally unethical.
As far as the treatment of apes is concerned, much of the film is firmly grounded in reality, as a viewing of Project Nim, a documentary based on Elizabeth Hess's book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human, clearly demonstrates.
The fun thing about Litan's book is that he details many clever little ideas about how to run businesses or to manage the economy better.
In his book Golden Fetters, the economist Barry Eichengreen argued that the lack of coordinated action dragged out the global recovery process.
Some years ago the historian Fritz Stern wrote a book about Germany entitled The Politics of Cultural Despair.
John Stuart Mill, in his classic book On Liberty, considered a situation in which a man sets out to cross a bridge that we know is unsafe.
Yet there he lay, and with a copy of my book The Man Died beside him.
Klimov's approach echoed that of Svetlana Alexievich - this year's Nobel laureate in literature - in her first book, War's Unwomanly Face, published the year before.
But, whereas many rushed to see Klimov's film, Alexievich's book did not seem to excite readers.
I was so inspired by War's Unwomanly Face that a few years ago I wrote my own book detailing the endurance of women in my family in the war-ravaged Soviet Union.
Ferguson is correct that the US will have to come to terms with its budget deficit to maintain international confidence, but, as I show in my book The Future of Power, doing so is within the range of possible outcomes.
US soldiers have repeatedly been implicated in war crimes; and Jeremy Scahill's book Dirty Wars, which details targeted assassinations by the US around the world, has hit bookstores.
It is a rare event when two volumes of the same book top the Argentine bestseller list.
There are Christians who know all about the fire and brimstone of the Book of Revelation, but seem not to have heard the instructions about generosity in the Sermon on the Mount.
There may now be a market for a Greek translation of her book.
The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial-arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.
After all, Fritz Stern wrote his book to warn of the dangers posed by a romantic abhorrence of modernity.
But the book contained other, non-market, examples as well.
But that book's potency originally derived from its fierce independence from contemporary orthodoxies.
The book for the new epoch has yet to be written, but I have a proposed title: Capitalism and Skepticism.

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