English words for 'Characteristic of a textbook'
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noun
- an introductory textbook
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
- any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- (historical, Catholicism ecclesiastical) A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations.
- An introductory text on any subject, particularly basic concepts.
- (historical, Protestantism ecclesiastical) Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.
- Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive.
- A layer of makeup that goes beneath the foundation; undermakeup.
- A person who prunes trees.
- A layer of such a substance.
- A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell.
- (medicine, zoology) A pheromone which interacts first with the endocrine system.
- A device used to prime an internal combustion engine with gasoline, (especially) in airplanes.
- A substance used to prime wood, metal, etc. in preparation for painting.
- (biochemistry, genetics) A molecule which initiates the synthesis of an enzyme, (especially) a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule which initiates DNA replication.
adj
- (literally) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
- according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
- (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
- (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.
- (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
noun
noun
- a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
- the words of something written
- the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
verb
noun
noun
- The backbone of a book.
- (drugs) The rolling of a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion.
- A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
- An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
- (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
- A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
verb
adj
- Relating to literature.
- of or relating to or characteristic of literature
- Bookish.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- knowledgeable about literature
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
adj
noun
- a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work
- A collection of stories or accounts that can individually be described as cases.
- (US, law) A kind of book, used in law schools, containing the text of court opinions in legal cases accompanied by analysis and related materials.
prefix
noun
- A book of such entries.
- An entry in such a book.
- A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
- A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
- One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- (music) An organ stop.
- (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
- (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
- (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.
- (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
- (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
- A device that automatically records a quantity.
- (chiefly US) Ellipsis of cash register.
- The act of registering.
- A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- (telecommunications) The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
- (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
- a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
- a book in which names and transactions are listed
- an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- an official written record of names or events or transactions
- (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
verb
- (transitive) To enter in a register; to enlist.
- (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
- (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
- (transitive, postal) To record officially and handle specially.
- (ambitransitive) To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
- (transitive) To express outward signs.
- (transitive) To sign-up, especially to vote.
- (intransitive) To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
- (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
- (transitive) To perceive or comprehend; pick up on.
- (intransitive) To make an impression.
- (intransitive) To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on.
- (transitive, especially printing) To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
- have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- manipulate the registers of an organ
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- enter into someone's consciousness
- show in one's face
- enroll to vote
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- be aware of
- send by registered mail
noun
- a basic or elementary instructional text
- the act of putting one thing into another
- a new proposal
- formally making a person known to another or to the public
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- the first section of a communication
- A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
- A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.
- An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
- The act or process of introducing.
prep_phrase
noun
- Synonym of handbook.
- (Christianity, historical) An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
- (military) A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
- (uncountable) Manual control or operation.
- (medicine, colloquial) Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.
- (music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
- A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
- A similar maneuver on a skateboard, lifting the front or back wheels while keeping the tail or nose of the board from touching the ground.
- (automotive) A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
- A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
- (music) A keyboard on an organ.
- A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
- (metonymically) A vehicle with a manual transmission.
- a small handbook
- (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle
adj
noun
- one of a series of texts for students learning to read
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
- a person who enjoys reading
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- a person who can read; a literate person
- a public lecturer at certain universities
- A person who reads.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- Any device that reads something.
- (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- A person who reads a publication.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- A literary anthology.
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
- A proofreader.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
- (transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
- (transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
- (transitive) To label a parcel, etc.
- make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
- place on the docket for legal action
noun
- (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
- (Australia) A receipt.
- A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
- (law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
- An agenda of things to be done.
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
noun
- Initialism of curriculum vitae.
- (philately) Initialism of catalog value.
- (pathology) Initialism of cytolytic vaginosis.
- (engineering) Initialism of constant velocity.
- (automotive) Initialism of commercial vehicle
- (nautical) Initialism of container vessel; a container ship
- Ellipsis of CV joint.
- (nautical) Initialism of construction vessel
- (among vorarephiles) Initialism of cock vore.
- (military) Initialism of combat vehicle.
- (US, navy) aircraft carrier (“Cruiser Voler”), a diesel-powered warship launching and landing heavier than air flying vehicles (a nuclear-powered one is a CVN)
- (astronomy) Initialism of cataclysmic variable.
- Initialism of computer vision.
- (pathology) Initialism of coronavirus.
- Abbreviation of cellevision.
- (anime) Initialism of character's voice (“voice actor”).
- (business) Initialism of countervailing.
- (statistics) Initialism of cross-validation.
- (phonetics) Initialism of cardinal vowel.
- a summary of your academic and work history
adj
name
prep_phrase
noun
- an introductory textbook
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
- any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- (historical, Catholicism ecclesiastical) A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations.
- An introductory text on any subject, particularly basic concepts.
- (historical, Protestantism ecclesiastical) Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.
- Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive.
- A layer of makeup that goes beneath the foundation; undermakeup.
- A person who prunes trees.
- A layer of such a substance.
- A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell.
- (medicine, zoology) A pheromone which interacts first with the endocrine system.
- A device used to prime an internal combustion engine with gasoline, (especially) in airplanes.
- A substance used to prime wood, metal, etc. in preparation for painting.
- (biochemistry, genetics) A molecule which initiates the synthesis of an enzyme, (especially) a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule which initiates DNA replication.
adj
- (literally) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
- according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
- (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
- (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.
- (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
noun
noun
- a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
- the words of something written
- the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
verb
noun
noun
- The backbone of a book.
- (drugs) The rolling of a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion.
- A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
- An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
- (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
- A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
verb
noun
- A book of such entries.
- An entry in such a book.
- A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
- A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
- One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- (music) An organ stop.
- (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
- (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
- (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.
- (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
- (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
- A device that automatically records a quantity.
- (chiefly US) Ellipsis of cash register.
- The act of registering.
- A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- (telecommunications) The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
- (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
- a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
- a book in which names and transactions are listed
- an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- an official written record of names or events or transactions
- (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
verb
- (transitive) To enter in a register; to enlist.
- (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
- (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
- (transitive, postal) To record officially and handle specially.
- (ambitransitive) To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
- (transitive) To express outward signs.
- (transitive) To sign-up, especially to vote.
- (intransitive) To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
- (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
- (transitive) To perceive or comprehend; pick up on.
- (intransitive) To make an impression.
- (intransitive) To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on.
- (transitive, especially printing) To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
- have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- manipulate the registers of an organ
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- enter into someone's consciousness
- show in one's face
- enroll to vote
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- be aware of
- send by registered mail
noun
- a basic or elementary instructional text
- the act of putting one thing into another
- a new proposal
- formally making a person known to another or to the public
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- the first section of a communication
- A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
- A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.
- An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
- The act or process of introducing.
noun
- Synonym of handbook.
- (Christianity, historical) An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
- (military) A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
- (uncountable) Manual control or operation.
- (medicine, colloquial) Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.
- (music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
- A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
- A similar maneuver on a skateboard, lifting the front or back wheels while keeping the tail or nose of the board from touching the ground.
- (automotive) A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
- A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
- (music) A keyboard on an organ.
- A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
- (metonymically) A vehicle with a manual transmission.
- a small handbook
- (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle
adj
noun
- one of a series of texts for students learning to read
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
- a person who enjoys reading
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- a person who can read; a literate person
- a public lecturer at certain universities
- A person who reads.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- Any device that reads something.
- (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- A person who reads a publication.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- A literary anthology.
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
- A proofreader.
noun
noun
- Initialism of curriculum vitae.
- (philately) Initialism of catalog value.
- (pathology) Initialism of cytolytic vaginosis.
- (engineering) Initialism of constant velocity.
- (automotive) Initialism of commercial vehicle
- (nautical) Initialism of container vessel; a container ship
- Ellipsis of CV joint.
- (nautical) Initialism of construction vessel
- (among vorarephiles) Initialism of cock vore.
- (military) Initialism of combat vehicle.
- (US, navy) aircraft carrier (“Cruiser Voler”), a diesel-powered warship launching and landing heavier than air flying vehicles (a nuclear-powered one is a CVN)
- (astronomy) Initialism of cataclysmic variable.
- Initialism of computer vision.
- (pathology) Initialism of coronavirus.
- Abbreviation of cellevision.
- (anime) Initialism of character's voice (“voice actor”).
- (business) Initialism of countervailing.
- (statistics) Initialism of cross-validation.
- (phonetics) Initialism of cardinal vowel.
- a summary of your academic and work history
adj
name
verb
- (transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
- (transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
- (transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
- (transitive) To label a parcel, etc.
- make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
- place on the docket for legal action
noun
- (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
- (Australia) A receipt.
- A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
- (law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
- An agenda of things to be done.
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
adj
- (literally) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
- according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
- (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
- (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.
- (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
noun
adj
- Relating to literature.
- of or relating to or characteristic of literature
- Bookish.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- knowledgeable about literature
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
adj
noun
- a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work
- A collection of stories or accounts that can individually be described as cases.
- (US, law) A kind of book, used in law schools, containing the text of court opinions in legal cases accompanied by analysis and related materials.