Regular : nm (word from latin liber « game living de l 'bark ”, on which we wrote (Liberian), then “book”).
The word “book” has many meanings:
I) Assembly of sheets bearing printed signs:
A. Material object:
1. Printed volume of a fairly large number of pages (opposed to brochure, booklet), excluding periodicals (opposed to review) (colloquial: book; volume; writing, work.
Manuscript (manuscript), printed, old (incunabula) book.
Subject matter, content of a book (text).
“A book is nothing but a small pile of dry leaves, or a large shape in motion: reading” (Sartre).
Compose, print a book (printing).
Book in print, in press.
Put a book in pestle.
Elements, external appearance of a book (notebook, sheet, leaf, page; binding, cardboard, corner, cover, spine, casing, guard, dust jacket, rib, cover, binding, bookmark, edge, edge, title).
Three hundred page book.
Very large book (colloquial: cobblestone; region: brick).
Paperback, hardcover.
Pocket book, paperback, small format and inexpensive (pocket -masculine name-).
Cover, dust jacket of a book (first cover).
Format of a book.
White, blue, yellow book: collection of official, diplomatic documents, published after an important event (war, etc.) to allow the reader to judge on the documents.
Within the framework of the European Union, White Paper, published by the European Commission and containing proposals for action in an area; green paper: discussion document on a particular subject.
The Little Red Book: the collection of Mao's political thoughts.
Illustrated book.
Picture book (album, picture book).
Animated book; embossed book (official recommendation for pop-up anglicism).
Comic book.
Book of maps (atlas, portolan).
Commerce, sale of books (publishing, bookstore).
Edit, bring out a book (publish).
Book published in installments, by deliveries.
Copyright, reproduction rights of a book (copyright).
Number of copies of a book (run).
Out of print book, in reprint.
Used book seller (book seller).
Rare, old books.
Beautiful books.
Book lover (bibliophile).
Book collection; bookcase (library).
Buy, offer a book.
Stack of books.
Cover a book (book cover, e-reader).
Put your mark on a book (ex-libris).
The book: printing and its products.
Industry, the book industries.
The book union.
2. Each part of certain works, whether or not it constitutes a separate volume (part).
Novel in several books (volume, volume).
The second book of the Aeneid (song).
“The Third [third], the Fourth [fourth] Book of the heroic deeds and sayings of the noble Pantagruel”, works by Rabelais.
Bible: Historical, poetic, sapiential (wisdom), prophetic books.
3. Book-cassette: text of a book recorded on cassette.
Cassette books.
Audiobook (audiobook).
Electronic, digital book: support for reading digital texts (see below B, 1°): e-book (anglicism), e-reader (official recommendation).
B. Content (according to Montaigne)
1. Set of signs contained in a book; printed text reproduced in a certain number of copies (work).
Divisions of a book: chapter, part, volume, volume.
The title of a book.
Notice to the reader, dedication, preface, table of contents of a book.
Book in two, three parts (diptych, trilogy).
The subject of a book.
The beginning of a book (incipit).
Example of an incipit: “It started like that” from the novel “Voyage au bout de la nuit” by
The end of a book (excipit).
Book giving practical information: almanac, directory, scale, catalog, guide, indicator, register, directory, vade mecum.
Cooking book.
Cellar book.
School books (textbook), extracurricular books.
Class book, study book: summary, memory aid, course, essay, study, glossary, guide, lexicon, memento, memory, method, monograph, summary, directory, summary, thesis, treatise, work, vocabulary.
Reading book. ➙ ABC, abecedary, alphabet, syllabary.
Book of arithmetic, grammar (an arithmetic, a grammar, etc.).
Art book.
Reference books (dictionary, encyclopedia).
Directory of books (bibliography).
Book recounting events, a life, the life of famous people (annals, biography, chronicle, diary, memoirs, memories, life), a journey (itinerary).
Book published to defend (apology, defense, praise), attack (libel, pamphlet) someone, sth.
Book in the form of a conversation (dialogue).
Literary book (general literature) (story, short story, play, poetry, novel. Children's books).
Books inspired, revealed; sacred books, holy: Bible, Gospel (writing), Koran; Torah; Veda.
The religions of the Book, based on a revealed text.
Religious, liturgical books.
Mass book (missal, parishioner).
Prayer book (breviary).
Book of hours.
The author of a book (writer).
Write, make books.
Write a book on a subject. “something new and true; it’s the only excuse in a book” (Voltaire).
Set of books written by an author (work).
This is his best book (masterpiece).
Phrase: To be the man of a single book: to be an author whose notoriety rests on a single work; pejorative: to be narrow-minded.
Book containing extracts, quotations, various writings: ana, anthology, chrestomathy, compilation, anthology; collection.
Summarize, analyze, criticize a book.
Write a book review.
This book is a great bookstore success (bestseller).
Book translated into several languages (translation).
The Index, catalog of books that the Church banned.
Read, start, open; finish, close, finish a book.
Consult, leaf through, browse a book.
“A good book is a good friend” (Bernardin de Saint-Pierre).
Read and reread a book.
Devour a book.
Engross. Favorite bedside book. “The flesh is sad, alas! and I read all the books” (Mallarmé).
Digital book (official recommendation), electronic: digitized text viewable on an electronic medium (e-reader, tablet, etc.) (e-book – English). Download a digital book.
Books, symbolizing reading, study, erudition, science, theory. He did not open his books: he did not study. Books and life, and practice. To know something only in books, only through books, to have a bookish, theoretical knowledge of it (➙ literature, II, 3°). “A prince in a book learns his duty poorly” (Cornelius).
Phrase: Speak like a book, wisely, learnedly.
“This guy, he spoke like a book, he talked like one breathes” (P. Émond).
Open book: fluently. Translating a language like an open book.
Boring book (fell from hands)
We would make a book out of it, there would be enough to write a book: there would be material to fill an entire book to tell, to describe (this or that thing).
2. What can be deciphered, interpreted as a text. The book of destiny, of nature.
II) Notebook, register:
1. Notebook, register on which you can write, note something (album, notebook, register).
Note something. on a book. The account book, expenses.
Equine herd book (official recommendation): stud-book (anglicism).
In Luxembourg: Class book, serving as a textbook for the class and attendance register. The class book is kept by the regent.
Old meaning: book of reason, where the head of the family kept the chronicle and the accounts of the house.
“In these books of reason, where the head of the family reported and commented on all the events affecting the family” (É. Badinter).
2. Guestbook : Formerly, register on which the names of noble families were inscribed in gold letters; modern meaning: register intended for the registration of famous names, for the collection of laudatory comments.
Sign a restaurant’s guestbook.
3. Accounting: Books of trade ; accounting books including the journal book, the inventory book.
General ledger, where are reported and classified by articles journal entries.
Cash book.
Payroll book.
Fog book.
Without complement: Keep the books (accounting).
Public law: Book, ledger (or ledger) of public debt.
4. Maritime: Ship’s logbook (journal)