( law enforcement, transitive ) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.Synonyms: sign up, register, reserve, schedule, enroll ( transitive ) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.They booked that message from the hill Synonyms: make a note of, note down, record, write down ( transitive ) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up. I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Your portfolio - your book - has to be killer. Getting your book (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. 2017, Nik Mahon, Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction (page 8).( advertising, informal ) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player. 1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly (volume 21, page 36).The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation. 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11).( with "the" ) The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.( figuratively ) Any source of instruction.( cartomancy ) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.( sports, by extension ) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.Ĭeltic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.
( sports ) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.( whist ) Six tricks taken by one side.( law, colloquial ) 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).( usually in the plural ) Records of the accounts of a business.The guild helps ensure that the ownership and control of the music, lyrics, and book of a show remain in the hands of its authors and composers-not the producers. 2010, David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide (page 172).( theater ) The script of a musical or opera.A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.Ī book of stamps a book of raffle tickets Synonym: booklet.( informal ) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar) bookie turf accountant.I'm running a book on who is going to win the race. ( gambling ) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing. 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.He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’ The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”.
The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better. Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books. Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word.