text-book

Noun

Meaning

A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.

A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.

Alternative names

text book

Examples

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance. T. E. Lawrence

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay. Peter Guthrie Tait

The purpose of this book is exactly expressed in its title, "The Key to Theosophy,” and needs but few words of explanation. It is not a complete or exhaustive text-book of Theosophy, but only a key to unlock the door that leads to the deeper study. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Hogben's Science for the Citizen would be an admirable text-book for such teaching. John Desmond Bernal

Watson (2007), p. 43 Rommel conducted a text-book retreat, destroying all equipment and infrastructure left behind and peppering the land behind him with mines and booby traps. Source: Internet

With a team of text-book capitalists guiding his economic plans, its hard to see how Trump would transform his populist economic message into policy. Source: Internet

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