I repeat: it suffices that abook be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: nobook can be a ladder, although no doubt there arebooks which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.
Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word.Books.Books andbooks andbooks. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, morebooks... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying thatbooks should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told thatwords should be treated with respect?’
She opened thebook to page 37 and began to read aloud.
He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in thebook.
A long work fit forpublication, typicallyprose, such as anovel ortextbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as ane-book.
“I would never read abook,” he once told an interviewer. “I don’t want to say nobook is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.”
2025 July 19, Pacifik, “Freethinker”, inWonderfool, performed by Pacifik:
They read somebooks Sharing their moods They know everything Whatever it can mean
2010, David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville,Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page172:
The guild helps ensure that the ownership and control of the music, lyrics, andbook of a show remain in the hands of its authors and composers—not the producers.
(usually in theplural) Records of the accounts of a business.
(law,colloquial) Abook award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents that happened in a game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, inBBC[2]:
Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in thebook and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.
2017, Nik Mahon,Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction, page 8:
Getting yourbook (portfolio) organised is the first step, and knowing both what to include, and what to leave out, is an essential step towards achieving that important agency placement.
2018 April 6,Leonard Barden, “Chess: Schoolboy Vincent Keymer secures shock triumph at Grenke Open”, inThe Guardian[3], archived fromthe original on12 January 2023:
White to move and win. How can he do it? The BK plans a march to h8, eating the f4 pawn en route, for abook draw.
This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook. In some cases abook draw is possible. But abook win is more likely.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page68:
I haven'tbooked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
Morice Vanoverbergh (1982), “Kankanay Anatomy: A Lexicon”, inAsian Folklore Studies[5], volume41, number 1 (overall work in English and Kankanaey), Nanzan University,→DOI, pages83-96
