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📖 Определения и значения для слова book

📒 a set of printed pages that are fastened inside a cover so that you can turn them and read them

  • His desk was covered with piles of books.
  • hardback/paperback books
  • a book of short stories

📒 a written work published in printed or electronic form

  • to read/write/publish a book
  • reference/children's/library books
  • book by somebody a new book by J. K. Rowling

📒 a set of sheets of paper that are fastened together inside a cover and used for writing in

  • an exercise book
  • a notebook

📒 a set of things that are fastened together like a book

  • a book of stamps/tickets/matches
  • a chequebook

📒 the written records of the financial affairs of a business

  • to do the books (= to check the accounts)
  • You need to go over the books again; there’s a mistake somewhere.
  • She does the books for us.

📒 a section of a large written work

  • the books of the Bible

📒 a record of bets made on whether something will happen, somebody will win a race, etc.

  • They’ve opened a book on who’ll win the Championship.

📒 used to say that somebody is pleased/annoyed with you

  • I'm in her good books at the moment because I cleared up the kitchen.

📒 to punish somebody for doing something wrong and make them explain their behaviour

  • We will ensure that people who commit fraud are brought to book through the courts.

📒 following rules and instructions in a very strict way

  • She always does everything by the book.

📒 to stop doing something because you no longer believe you will be successful or will find a solution

  • The police have closed the book on the case (= they have stopped trying to solve it).

📒 a subject or person that you know nothing about

  • Nuclear physics is a closed book to most of us.

📒 to change facts or figures dishonestly or illegally

  • His accountant had been cooking the books for years.
  • Someone was cooking the books.

📒 used to say that you should not form an opinion about somebody/something from their appearance only

📒 every available method, whether it is honest or not

  • He'll try every trick in the book to stop you from winning.

📒 to be reading

  • She always has her nose in a book.

📒 the record of great achievements in history

  • She has earned her place in the history books.

📒 used when you are giving your opinion

  • That's cheating in my book.

📒 (to be) on an organization’s list, for example of people who are available for a particular type of work

  • We have very few nurses on our books at the moment.
  • Most of the houses on our books are in the north of the city.
  • We have fifty people on the books.

📒 if you describe somebody or their life as an open book, you mean that you can easily understand them and know everything about them

📒 to understand easily what somebody is thinking or feeling

📒 to be convenient or useful for you/somebody

  • Well, if you’re honest and hard-working, that suits our book.

📒 to copy somebody’s behaviour and do things in the same way that they do, because they are successful

📒 to punish somebody who has committed an offence as severely as possible

  • ‘Get this man down to the station and throw the book at him!’ yelled Curtis.
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