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The Meaning of book
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(n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
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(n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
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(n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of \"Paradise Lost.\"
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(n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
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(n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
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(v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
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(v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
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(v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
Synonyms
volume
,
record
,
record book
,
script
,
playscript
,
ledger
,
leger
,
account book
,
book of account
,
rule book
,
Koran
,
Quran
,
al-Qur'an
,
Book
,
Bible
,
Christian Bible
,
Book
,
Good Book
,
Holy Scripture
,
Holy Writ
,
Scripture
,
Word of God
,
Word
,
reserve
,
hold
Rhymes
bankbook
,
benbrook
,
brook
,
brooke
,
checkbook
,
chinook
,
chook
,
cook
,
cookbook
,
cooke
,
create-a-book
,
crook
,
crooke
,
decook
,
donnybrook
,
flook
,
forsook
,
gobbledygook
,
gook
,
guidebook
,
handbook
,
holbrook
,
hook
,
hooke
,
hornbook
,
inglenook
,
jokebook
,
kirkuk
,
logbook
,
look
,
matchbook
,
mccook
,
mistook
,
mook
,
nook
,
notebook
,
outlook
,
overbook
,
overcook
,
overlook
,
overtook
,
passbook
,
pocketbook
,
precook
,
rebook
,
rook
,
rooke
,
rulebook
,
schnook
,
schook
,
schoolbook
,
scrapbook
,
shnook
,
shook
,
sketchbook
,
snook
,
storybook
,
stroock
,
strook
,
subnotebook
,
textbook
,
took
,
tooke
,
undercook
,
undertook
,
unhook
,
vanhook
,
westbrook
,
yearbook
,
zook