Dictionary Entry
book
book is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
- 3noun
A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
- 4noun
A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
- 5noun
Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
- 6transitive verb
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8transitive verb
To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
- 9noun
physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
"he used a large book as a doorstop"
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- 10noun
a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge
"he bought a book of stamps"
- 11noun
a major division of a long written composition
"the book of Isaiah"
- 12noun
a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
"I am reading a good book on economics"
- 13noun
the sacred writings of the Christian religions
"he went to carry the Word to the heathen"
- 14noun
the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina
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- 15noun
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"
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- 16noun
a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
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- 17noun
a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
"they run things by the book around here"
- 18noun
a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
- 19noun
a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
"they got a subpoena to examine our books"
- 20verb
engage for a performance
"Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"
- 21verb
record a charge in a police register
"The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"
- 22verb
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"
- 23verb
register in a hotel booker
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