book
noun
[ bʊk ]
• a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
• "a book of selected poems"
Similar:
volume,
tome,
work,
printed work,
publication,
title,
opus,
treatise,
novel,
storybook,
manual,
handbook,
guide,
companion,
reference book,
paperback,
hardback,
softback,
yellowback,
• a bound set of blank sheets for writing in.
• "an accounts book"
Similar:
notepad,
notebook,
pad,
memo pad,
exercise book,
binder,
ledger,
record book,
log,
logbook,
chronicle,
journal,
diary,
daybook,
jotter,
pocketbook,
scratch pad,
cahier,
• a set of tickets, stamps, matches, samples of cloth, etc., bound together.
• "a pattern book"
book
verb
• reserve (accommodation, a place, etc.); buy (a ticket) in advance.
• "I have booked a table at the Swan"
Similar:
reserve,
make a reservation for,
arrange in advance,
prearrange,
arrange for,
order,
charter,
hire,
bag,
engage,
bespeak,
arrange,
programme,
schedule,
timetable,
line up,
secure,
fix up,
lay on,
slate,
• make an official note of the personal details of (a person who has broken a law or rule).
• "the cop booked me and took me down to the station"
• leave suddenly.
• "they just ate your pizza and drank your soda and booked"
Origin:
Old English bōc (originally also ‘a document or charter’), bōcian ‘to grant by charter’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boek and German Buch, and probably to beech (on which runes were carved).
