单词 | textbook |
释义 | textbookn.ΚΠ 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Text-Book (in Universities) is a Classick Author written very wide by the Students, to give Room for an Interpretation dictated by the Master, &c. to be inserted in the Interlines. 2. A book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject; now usually one written specially for this purpose; a manual of instruction in any science or branch of study, esp. a work recognized as an authority (cf. text-writer n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun] handbookOE doctrinalc1450 directory1543 school1545 instruction book1546 companion1621 body1647 tutor1665 self-instructor1700 tutorer1702 preceptorc1710 textbook1779 self-instructer1800 bench book1887 user guide1936 user manual1936 text1955 1779 Mirror No. 38 The letters of the immortal Earl of Chesterfield, which I intend to use as my text-book on this occasion. 1795 W. Seward Anecd. I. 203 Lord Bacon's Essays..have been the text-book of myriads of Essay-Writers. 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 9 Andrew Horne, the author of our ancient legal text-book, the Mirror of Justices. a1855 C. B. Mansfield Theory of Salts (1865) Pref. p. xxxii The current vocabulary of the chemical text-books. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 10 In almost every department [of science] the text-books of ten years ago are obsolete to-day. 3. A book containing a selection of Scripture texts, arranged for daily use or easy reference. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > [noun] > volume texta1387 Bible1468 textbook1861 textus1874 1861 (title) The Scripture Text Book and Treasury. 1877 Bagster's Catal. 50 The Autograph Text Book; Containing a Text of Scripture, and a Verse of Poetry..under every Day in the year. 4. A book containing the libretto of a musical play or opera. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. 5. attributive passing into adj. Derived from, dependent upon, or typical of a textbook (sense 2); originally and still occasionally in a derogatory sense, implying mechanical adherence to a stereotype; now frequently used in an approbatory sense of an exemplary or classic instance of something. Cf. copybook n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > exemplary exemplar1585 exemplary1629 pattern1657 emulablea1684 model1831 textbookish1914 textbook1916 1916 A. Huxley Let. 30 June (1969) 103 Merest text-book papers, such as would be set by a Middle Western College out your way. 1927 M. Sadleir Trollope: Comm. iv. 183 The presentation of Greshamsbury House..is perfunctory... Trollope..was content to parrot text-book phrases of appreciation. 1939 G. Household Rogue Male 230 To deny..I was uncomfortable, but to produce hypothetical justification for getting more comfort. It was a text-book illustration good enough to take in the foreigner. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four iii. 260 It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 33 An authority..among textbook soldiers on how to keep troops fit. 1957 P. Suppes Introd. to Logic xii. 286 Textbook problems (as opposed to real-life problems). 1963 Times 4 May 3/6 Smith tertius (Edwin, of Derbyshire) hit a swinging six into the Mound stand and followed this with two text-book fours. 1970 Times 13 Feb. 25/7 The..strike..was a textbook example of response to loss of ‘our management’. 1979 N. Hynd False Flags xix. 173 He followed an evasive path, a textbook lesson in how to move without leaving a trace. Derivatives ˈtextbookish adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > exemplary exemplar1585 exemplary1629 pattern1657 emulablea1684 model1831 textbookish1914 textbook1916 1914 H. G. Wells Englishman looks at World 84 An educational system..has to be grown; and in the beginning it is bound to be thin, ragged, forced, crammy, text~bookish, superficial. 1951 Sport 27 Apr. 3/1 Newcastle can be the more brilliant, the more dazzling, the more text-bookish on their day. 1974 Publishers Weekly 4 Feb. 68/2 A textbookish survey of Arab history, religion and culture since the days of Mohammed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1730 |
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