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| booking | |
| 1. n. The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting. |  |
| 2. n. A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel. | |
| 3. n. The engagement of a performer for a particular performance. | |
| 4. n. (sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play. | |
| 5. n. (legal) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest. | |
| book | |
| 1. n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. | |
| She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud. | |
| He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book. | |
| 2. n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. | |
| I have three copies of his first book. | |
| 3. n. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an object, used as a charge; as in the arms of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. | |
| 4. n. A major division of a long work. | |
| Genesis is the first book of the Bible. | |
| Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing. | |
| 5. n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). | |
| I'm running a book on who is going to win the race. | |
| 6. n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. | |
| a book of stamps | |
| a book of raffle tickets | |
| 7. n. (theatre) The script of a musical. | |
| 8. n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business. | |
| 9. n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. | |
| 10. n. (legal) A colloquial reference to 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 t | |
| 11. n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side. | |
| 12. n. (poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) . MGI/Mike Caro University. (ISBN, 978-1880069523) | |
| 13. n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. | |
| 14. n. (sports) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. | |
| 15. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card. | |
| 16. v. To reserve (something) for future use. | |
| I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night | |
| I can book tickets for the concert next week. | |
| 17. v. To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. | |
| They booked that message from the hill | |
| 18. v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. | |
| The police booked him for driving too fast. | |
| 19. v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast. | |
| He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap. | |
| 21. v. To record bets as bookmaker. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class. | |
| The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class. | |
| 23. v. (intransitive, slang) To leave. | |
| He was here earlier, but he booked. | |
| 24. v. (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake | |
