textbook

IPA: tˈɛkstbʊk

noun

  • A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

adjective

  • Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
  • Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
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Examples of "textbook" in Sentences

  • Ray Pierrehumbert's excellent textbook is free online.
  • Or because he had read an old textbook from the 50s, possibly.
  • "Did you ever read what they call their textbook, 'Science and Health?'"
  • This textbook is arranged in 15 lessons that promise to teach the reader “the foundations of visual storytelling”.
  • Readers today have been conditioned to believe that a writer cribbing off his/her textbook is capturing the same animal once known as creativity.
  • Archdiocese spokesman Joe Zwilling said Dolan acknowledged the victims in the letter, which he called a textbook example of how to deal with a priest-abuser.
  • * More than half of the bundled textbooks surveyed (55 percent) were not available for students to purchase a la carte, in which the textbook is available without the add-on materials.
  • Being schooled in scientific practice, they believe that in dealing with prayer as a phenomenon they should scrupulously follow the formulas outlined in the Bible which they described as the textbook of spiritual science.
  • "John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls textbook plagiarism in the leggy blond pundit's Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.

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