| Main Entry: | book |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | published document |
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album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing |
| Main Entry: | leaf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | page of document |
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folio, paper, sheet |
| Notes: | a page is one side of a piece of paper; a leaf is the term for a piece of paper with two sides |
| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unit of the mathematical system |
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cardinal, character, chiffer, cipher, count, decimal, denominator, digit, emblem, figure, folio, fraction, googol, integer, numeral, numerator, ordinal, prime, representation, sign, statistic, sum, symbol, total, whole number |
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letter |
| Main Entry: | page |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sheet of paper |
Synonyms: |
folio, leaf, recto, side, signature, surface, verso |
| Main Entry: | sheet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating, covering; page |
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area, blanket, coat, expanse, film, foil, folio, lamina, layer, leaf, membrane, overlay, pane, panel, piece, plate, ply, slab, stratum, stretch, surface, sweep, veneer |
| Concept: | Number. |
| Category: | 1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT |
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-nouns
number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series., sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number; reciprocal; totient., permutation, combination, variation; election., ratio, proportion, progression; arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression; percentage., figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers., power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus., differential, integral, fluxion, fluent.
-adjectives
numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable., proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive., positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.
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| Concept: | Book. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
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-nouns
booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book., part, issue, number, livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal., paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream, chapter, section head, article, paragraph, passage, clause., folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo., encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press (publication)., writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny-a-liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; powt., bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore, bookseller's shop., knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning (knowledge).
-phrases
"among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton); "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; "volumes
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