meaning of book
1. 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. A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost. 4.">"
4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
6. To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
7. 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. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
9. A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.
10. A kind of thin white muslin for ladies dresses.
11. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a
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