Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book containing a text or texts.
- noun A book used by students as a standard work for a particular branch of study; a manual of instruction; a book which forms the basis of lectures or comments.
- noun Same as
libretto , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
- noun A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
- adjective according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
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Examples
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But her one-year fight to start the company: the pre-launch marketing campaign through the national Pepsi Refresh program; her visits to national meetings to build traffic and credibility among professionals "critical" to the care of cancer patients, her primary audience; her widening of her advertising market beyond big pharma to businesses on the periphery of the cancer-care industry; all make for text-book examples of how to build an online small business.
Robert Schwab: Chemo 101: A Web Success Story Robert Schwab 2011
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His third book, Mass and Master, became a text-book in the American universities; and almost before he knew it, he was at work on a fourth one, The Fallacy of the Inefficient.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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` I'll wager they've made a text-book out of his "Benevolent Feudalism."'
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But her one-year fight to start the company: the pre-launch marketing campaign through the national Pepsi Refresh program; her visits to national meetings to build traffic and credibility among professionals "critical" to the care of cancer patients, her primary audience; her widening of her advertising market beyond big pharma to businesses on the periphery of the cancer-care industry; all make for text-book examples of how to build an online small business.
Robert Schwab: Chemo 101: A Web Success Story Robert Schwab 2011
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Microsoft was and is the text-book example of the evils of monopolies and continues to be a corporate predator to which no practice is too slimy or underhanded to employ.
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Delap swept a superb pass out to Matthew Etherington and the winger delivered an exquisite cross towards the back post where Walters, nodding the ball back across goal and into the far corner, executed a text-book header.
Stoke City 1-0 Hajduk Split | Europa League match report 2011
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This fund became a sort of text-book that was passed on, a part of the curriculum, as it were, of the school of Revolution. 1
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Durant, the District native and Montrose Christian alum, kept earning his trust as he used that text-book, confection-sweet release to knock down shots.
On Kobe Bryant's night, Kevin Durant proves to be a star among stars 2011
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His third book, "Mass and Master," became a text-book in the American universities; and almost before he knew it, he was at work on a fourth one, "The Fallacy of the Inefficient."
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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In that regard, she is the text-book example of a demagogue seeking political power.
Fernando Espuelas: Is Sarah Palin an Ignoramus or a Cynic? 2010
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