Thesaurus: book

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1. 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.
2. n. A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
3. n. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
4. n. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
5. n. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
6. v. t. To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
7. 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.
8. v. t. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
9. n. the sacred writings of the Christian religions
10. n. a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
11. n. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
12. n. a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone