单词 | booked |
释义 | bookedadj.ΚΠ OE Ælfric 1st Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr. 190) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 126 Ge sceolan beon gebocade [c1175 Bodl. 343 ibocode], swaswa eower hade gebyrað. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > skilled in letters book-lereda1250 lettereda1375 bookeda1393 texted14.. letterlya1425 literate?a1475 book-learnedc1475 clerklya1529 book-read1591 bookwise1593 read1594 letter-learned1771 book-formed1798 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1328 Thaise his doghter..was wel tawht, sche was wel boked. a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. i. (1655) ii. 66 Perhaps the other may be a greater booked Physitian then he. 1851 S. S. Boden Pop. Introd. Chess ii. 40 Most strong, well booked, players could, with a little practice, play blind-fold within about a Rook of their pitch of force. 1894 Amer. Poultry Jrnl. Jan. 5/2 One of the best booked men on artificial incubation. 3. Recorded or entered in a book, list, or timetable; official, listed. In later use chiefly Railways. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [adjective] > listed tabledc1500 irrotulate1594 enumerate1646 enumerated1721 booked1727 catalogued1795 scheduled1881 listed1907 to-do list1992 1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Booked, or Booked down, Adj. écrit, couché sur un Livre. 1842 E. A. Poe Myst. Marie Rogêt in Wks. (1864) I. 236 The recognized and booked principles. 1870 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 7 Dec. 4/5 The booked time for running to Harrow was fifteen minutes. 1892 Daily News 3 June 5/4 That the Board of Trade shall have compulsory powers..to order a railway company to revise the booked time of the men. 1898 Daily News 15 Dec. 7/4 Certain booked trains will be discontinued. 1993 Mod. Railways July 421/1 The Shift Production Manager will be aware of any extra work required before the train's arrival through the train's monitoring system, so that either extra staff or a switch of the train half or full-set can be arranged to ensure that the booked return to service time is maintained. 2005 S. Hall Mod. Signalling Handbk. (rev. ed.) 47/2 If a train in classes 1 to 6 is to be diverted from its booked route at a junction over which speed must be reduced, the junction signal must not be cleared until the train is close to it. 4. a. Of a seat, room, appointment, etc.: engaged or arranged in advance; reserved. Also with adverb, as fully, heavily, etc.: (of a theatre, hotel, business, etc.) experiencing great demand for future availability; fully or mostly committed, reserved, etc.; busy, full; cf. solid adj. 21c. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > by entreaty > booked booked1823 1823 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 7 June 44/1 I stopped at the corner of Fetter-lane for a booked insider [sc. a seat in a stagecoach]. 1833 Age 1 Dec. 382/1 Between this piece, The Ferry and the Mill, and Gustavus, Covent-Garden is well booked up to Christmas. 1870 Engineering 12 Aug. 123/1 The makers are still heavily booked for forward delivery. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 9/1 The iron, steel, and allied trades are heavily booked. 1990 Pilot Sept. 6/1 Student pilots, some of whom reported for booked lessons to find Donoghue's premises empty and the aircraft flown away. 2007 Daily Tel. 6 July 21/1 Every hotel and bed and breakfast establishment in the city is fully booked. b. Of a person: having a reservation for a seat, room, etc. ΚΠ 1831 Spectator 9 Apr. 344/1 The Sampson, in one trip, took 203 booked passengers. 1893 Vogue 24 June (Suppl.) 1/3 There will be more to do over the Fourth, for many guests are booked for that time. 1963 Guardian 9 Feb. 12/2 BEA had proposed a one third cut in fares for stand-by passengers, namely, people prepared to chance obtaining a seat after booked passengers had boarded the plane. 2004 J. Smythe Downstage Upfront iii. 81 She..had only a small window of opportunity to contact booked customers at their daytime work numbers. 5. Of land: granted or assigned by charter. Cf. bookland n. historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [adjective] > transferred by charter or deed conveyed1817 booked1875 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. iv. 115 Over his own domain and ‘booked’ land. 1932 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 64 522 The interpretation of the grant to Ordgar of booked land in Littleham (Exmouth) requires revision. 2006 S. Foot Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. iii. 93 Booked land, that given in perpetuity by means of a charter, was freed from the normal secular burdens. 6. Sport (chiefly Association Football). Of a player: cautioned for a serious infringement of the rules. Cf. book v. 4b. ΚΠ 1971 Times 26 Aug. 9/8 The ‘booked’ players were the Newcastle winger Hibbitt, for showing dissent [etc.]. 1988 Guardian 25 Apr. 14 Wimbledon, the booked Gannon and tetchy Scales apart, had apparently learned their lesson from November's Battle of Stamford Bridge. 2009 Daily Record (Nexis) 11 Feb. 52 The Irish feel the rugby-syle idea of a booked player going off the park for a period of time—probably 10 minutes—would be considered as an experiment at least. Compounds booked out adj. (of a theatre, hotel, etc.) having all tickets, seats, rooms, etc., booked or reserved; having no available space, full; (later also of a person) having no time available for further engagements; cf. booked up adj. (b). ΚΠ 1898 Belfast News-let. 29 Aug. 5/3 It was but natural that the great influx of visitors should have filled our theatres. So it happened that both the Gaiety Theatre and the Theatre Royal were ‘booked out’ every night during the week. 1925 Daily Mail 30 Dec. 8/6 (advt.) Midnight Follies special gala performance completely booked out. 1987 Courier-Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 July It houses a bustling and, on the night we were there, booked-out establishment serving quality Italian food. 1997 Mirror (Ireland) (Nexis) 14 Aug. 8 Dana is totally booked out. We have had her schedule done up for weeks. 2000 E. Hunt et al. South Pacific 236/1 Reserve ahead during the Heiva festivities in July when many hotels are completely booked out. booked up adj. †(a) U.S. colloquial (of a person) instructed in books, well read; cf. sense 2 (obsolete); (b) fully or mostly committed, reserved, etc.; busy, full; cf. sense 4. ΚΠ 1846 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 9 Mar. It is not to be expected that they could be ‘booked up’ in the literary way.., for the flood of magazine literature is so great that none but those identified with the business can be supposed to be familiar with its history. 1850 W. H. Prescott Let. 26 June in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1882) xxi. 292 I am booked up for dinners to the middle of July. 1871 Glasgow Herald 8 May 5/4 They are all booked up with orders to cover old stocks. 1893 Washington Post 29 Oct. 10/2 Congressman Harter, of Ohio, is a practical student and well booked up on economics, especially on banking. 1911 J. Vincent in Rep. Labour & Social Conditions in Germany (Tariff Reform League) III. Nos. vi–vii. 52 We found..the trades were busy and well booked up with orders. 1993 Guardian 4 Aug. ii. 8/3 The Bach flower remedy workshops..are all booked up. 2004 J. Mansell One you really Want xiv. 81 Marco′s flying over to LA on Saturday morning. He′s an A-list nail technician, booked up for months ahead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.OE |
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