book

Meanings

Noun

• A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
• A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
• A major division of a long work.
• A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
• A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
• A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
• The script of a musical or opera.
• Records of the accounts of a business.
• A book 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).
• Six tricks taken by one side.
• Four of a kind.
• A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
• A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
• The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
• Any source of instruction.
• The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
• A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.

Verb

• To reserve (something) for future use.
• To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
• To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
• To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
• To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
• To travel very fast.
• To record bets as bookmaker.
• To receive the highest grade in a class.
• To leave.
• Past of bake

Origin

• From Middle English booke, book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret from Old French livret. Bookmaker sense by .
• From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).
• From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną.