Commentary: BOOK[+creation][+literary][+composition] [+artifact][+volume][+bound]
Examples:
Mary has always enjoyed books.
Bob is writing a book about the French Revolution.
The paper in these books is beginning to crumble because it is not acid-free.
The child showed me a big pop-up book of farm animals.
Don't trip over the pile of books in the living room!
Those three library books are overdue.
This phrase book may be useful when you are in Italy.
Her book on branes and string theory is actually quite accessible.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: BOOK[+artifact][+ledger][+record][+accounting]
Examples:
Betty keeps the books for her husband's dry cleaning business.
He was sent to prison for cooking the books at a Fortune 500 company.
The book value of my car is only about five hundred dollars. ( accounting value: cost - accumulated depreciation)
Each trader at that investment firm manages his or her own trading book. (financial assets bought and sold for clients)
Those expenses were not on the books, so you can't deduct them. (written in the ledger)
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5
Commentary: BOOK[+artifact][+sheet][+bundle][+ticket/+match/+stamp]
Examples:
I bought a book of stamps at the post office.
They are passing out coupon books at the mall.
Bill bought books of tickets for rides at the amusement park.
Mary produced a book of matches to light the candles.
The students wrote their final exams in blue books. (small blank booklets)
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 11
Commentary: BOOK[+literary][+form][+subdivision][+major]
Examples:
The novel is structured into four books.
Mary has only finished the first book of War and Peace.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10
Commentary: BOOK[+script][+performance][+play]
Examples:
The director borrowed the actor's book and read the lines himself, to convey the emotion he wanted in the scene.
My book still has dialogue from the first act which the playwright since deleted.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Commentary: BOOK[+quantity][+required][+pre_score][+won][+card][+playing]
Examples:
Mary bid two spades so her book is six tricks of spades before she can score.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6
Commentary: BOOK[+compilation][+rule][+authoritative]
Examples:
We are going to do this by the book.
They'll try every trick in the book to win this case.
You ought to take a page from his book. (figurative, how he does things)
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7
Commentary: BOOK[+compilation][+data]
Examples:
You will find his name in all the record books on horse racing.
Sally found her name in John's little black book.
I keep track of my completed dives in a log book.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Commentary: Idiom: on_the_books
NOTE: a figurative extension of Sense 3
NOTE: Does not imply a literal entry into an accounting ledger (Sense 3)
Examples:
Whether or not he agreed to the proposal is not on the books.
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WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: on_the_books
Commentary: Idiom: one_for_the_books
Examples:
Well, this game is certainly one for the books.
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WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: one_for_the_books
Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
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