book
/bʊk/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms books booking booked the Book boke booke
- noun A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. “She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.”
- noun 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.”
- noun A major division of a long work. “Genesis is the first book of the Bible.”
- noun (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.”
- noun (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- noun A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. “a book of stamps”
- noun (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
- noun (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
- verb (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use. “I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.”
- verb (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. “They booked that message from the hill.”
- verb (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. “I booked a flight to New York.”
- verb (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.”
- verb (sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- verb (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast. “He was really booking until he passed the speed trap.”
- verb To record bets as bookmaker.
- verb (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.”
- proper noun (Islam) The Qur'an, especially its supposed divine form inclusive of the true teachings previously provided to the "People of the Book", Jews and Christians.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
tome volume booklet libretto account record reserve make a note of note down write down sign up register schedule enroll bomb hurtle rocket speed shoot whiz record book script playscript ledger leger account book book of account rule book Koran Quran
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Etymology
From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Bookmaker sense by clipping.
Cognate with Scots beuk, buik, buke (“book”), Yola buke (“book”), North Frisian Bok, buk, bök (“book”), Saterland Frisian Bouk (“book”), West Frisian, Dutch boek (“book”), Alemannic German Buech (“book”), Bavarian Buach (“book”), Central Franconian Booch, Buch (“book”), German, Luxembourgish Buch (“book”), German Low German Book (“book”), Limburgish book, Bouk (“book”), Vilamovian büch (“book”), Yiddish בוך (bukh, “book”), Danish bog (“book”), Elfdalian buok (“book”), Faroese, Icelandic bók (“book”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bok (“book”).
From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).
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”).
An Americanized form of German Buch, or alternatively a variant of Buck.
Webster’s 1913
- noun 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.
- noun A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
- verb To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
- verb 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.
Etymology [OE. book, bok, AS. b; akin to Goth. b a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b, b, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. Beech.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “book”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details