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A '''book''' is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a sheet is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book.
==Origin==
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''bōc''; akin to Old High German ''buoh'' book, Gothic ''boka'' letter
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
The word comes from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English Old English] "bōc" which (itself) comes from the Germanic root "*bōk-", cognate to beech. Similarly, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages Slavic languages] (for example, Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) "буква" (bukva—"letter") is cognate with "beech". In Russian and in Serbian and Macedonian, another Slavic languages, the words "букварь" (bukvar') and "буквар" (bukvar), respectively, refer specifically to a primary school [[textbook]] that helps young children master the [[techniques]] of [[reading]] and [[writing]]. It is thus [[conjectured]] that the earliest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European] writings may have been carved on beech wood. Similarly, the Latin word codex, [[meaning]] a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant "block of wood".
==Definitions==
*1: a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers: a book of selected [[poems]] | a book on cats | [ as modifier ] : a book report.
:b. a literary [[composition]] that is published or intended for publication as a book: the book is set in the 1940s | I'm [[writing]] a book.
:c. (the books) used to refer to [[studying]]: he is so deep in his books he would forget to eat.
:d. a main division of a classic literary work, an epic, or the [[Bible]]: the [[Book of Genesis]].
:e. the libretto of an [[opera]] or musical, or the script of a play.
:f. (the book) the local telephone directory: is your name in the book?
:g. (the Book) the [[Bible]].
:h. informal a magazine.
:i. an imaginary record or list (often used to emphasize the thoroughness or comprehensiveness of someone's [[actions]] or [[experiences]]): she felt every [[emotion]] in the book of [[love]].
*2:a. [ with modifier ] a bound set of blank sheets for [[writing]] or keeping records in: an accounts book.
:b. (books) a set of records or accounts: he can do more than [[balance]] the books.
:c. a bookmaker's record of bets accepted and [[money]] paid out.
*3:a. a set of tickets, stamps, matches, checks, samples of cloth, etc., bound together: a [[pattern]] book | a book of matches.
:b. (the book) the first six tricks taken by the declarer in a hand of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge bridge].
==Description==
A '''book''' is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, [[paper]], parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to [[hinge]] at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A set of [[text]]-filled or [[illustrated]] pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book, or e-book.
Books may also refer to works of [[literature]], or a main division of such a work. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_and_information_science library and information science], a book is called a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monograph monograph], to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, [[journals]] or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature. In [[novels]] and sometimes other types of books (for example, biographies), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on). An avid reader of books is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliophilia bibliophile] or colloquially, bookworm.
A shop where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookselling books are bought and sold] is a bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 unique titles had been published.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book]
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