textbook
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɛkst.bʊk/
textbook (plural textbooks)
- A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
- French: manuel, livre de classe
- German: Lehrbuch, Schulbuch
- Italian: libro di testo
- Portuguese: livro de texto, compêndio, sebenta (Portugal), apostila (Brazil), livro didático
- Russian: уче́бник
- Spanish: libro de texto, texto
textbook
- Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
- 2000, Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence
- They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
- 2000, Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence
- Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Three, Chapter 2,
- All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness—everything has been burned out of her. It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case.
- 2003, Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy
- In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Three, Chapter 2,
- Spanish: libro
- German: lehrbuchmäßig
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