Definitions for books

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books book

Spelling: [boo k]

IPA: /bʊk/

Books is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in books (bkoos).

Definitions for books

noun

1. a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
2. a work of fiction or nonfiction in an electronic format: See also e-book (def 1).
3. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.
4. a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions.
5. the Book, the Bible.
6. Music. the text or libretto of an opera, operetta, or musical.
7. books, book of account.
8. Jazz. the total repertoire of a band.
9. a script or story for a play.
10. a record of bets, as on a horse race.
11. Cards. the number of basic tricks or cards that must be taken before any trick or card counts in the score.
12. a set or packet of tickets, checks, stamps, matches, etc., bound together like a book.
13. anything that serves for the recording of facts or events:
14. Sports. a collection of facts and information about the usual playing habits, weaknesses, methods, etc., of an opposing team or player, especially in baseball:
15. Stock Exchange. 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.
16. a pile or package of leaves, as of tobacco.
17. Mineralogy. a thick block or crystal of mica.
18. a magazine: used especially in magazine publishing.
19. book value.
20. Slang. bookmaker (def 1).
21. the book. a set of rules, conventions, or standards: the telephone book:

Idioms

1. bring to book, to call to account; bring to justice:
2. by the book, according to the correct or established form; in the usual manner:
3. close the books, to balance accounts at the end of an accounting period; settle accounts.
4. cook the books, Informal. cook1 (def 12)
5. in one's bad books, out of favor; disliked by someone:
6. in one's book, in one's personal judgment or opinion:
7. in one's good books, in favor; liked by someone.
8. like a book, completely; thoroughly:
9. make book, to accept or place the bets of others, as on horse races, especially as a business. to wager; bet:
10. off the books, done or performed for cash or without keeping full business records: especially as a way to avoid paying income tax, employment benefits, etc.:
11. one for the book / books, a noteworthy incident; something extraordinary:
12. on the books, entered in a list or record:
13. throw the book at, Informal. to sentence (an offender, lawbreaker, etc.) to the maximum penalties for all charges against that person. to punish or chide severely.
14. without book, from memory. without authority:
15. write the book, to be the prototype, originator, leader, etc., of:

adjective

1. of or relating to a book or books:
2. derived or learned from or based on books:
3. shown by a book of account:

Verb phrases

1. book in, to sign in, as at a job.
2. book out, to sign out, as at a job.
3. book up, to sell out in advance:

verb (used with object)

1. to enter in a book or list; record; register.
2. to reserve or make a reservation for (a hotel room, passage on a ship, etc.):
3. to register or list (a person) for a place, transportation, appointment, etc.:
4. to engage for one or more performances.
5. to enter an official charge against (an arrested suspect) on a police register.
6. to act as a bookmaker for (a bettor, bet, or sum of money):

verb (used without object)

1. to register one's name.
2. to engage a place, services, etc.
3. Slang. to study hard, as a student before an exam: to leave; depart: to work as a bookmaker:

Origin of books

before 900; Middle English, Old English bōc; cognate with Dutch boek, Old Norse bōk, German Buch; akin to Gothic boka letter (of the alphabet) and not of known relation to Examples for books

Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

At some point during his busy schedule, Israel found the time to write a book, titled The Global War on Morris.

Tis none other that the Dean sets forth, ay, and the book that I have here.

Completed in 1953 and composed with standard line breaks and punctuation, the book was completely ignored upon submission.

Of course they did not use the letters which have been used to print this book.

Cardinal Newman wrote: "Gladstone's book, as you see, is making a sensation."

The distinctive principle of the book was that the State had a conscience.

"That's what your romantic boy out of a book has done," said Charles Merchant.

Fred Logevall at Cornell won the Pulitzer Prize and is a diplomatic historian; he just started a book on Kennedy.

Perhaps, as Dwight Garner wrote, Steinberg just needed an idea for a book.