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Definition: Booker |
BookerNoun1. Someone who engages a person or company for performances. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Booker" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "book maker". |
Date "booker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Books performers, theatrical or ballet productions, variety or nightclub acts, concert or lecture series, trade shows, or other popular or classical attractions for entertainment in various establishments, such as theaters, showplaces, clubs, or halls: Schedules attractions for season, considering such factors as entertainment policy, budget, and tastes of patrons of particular establishment represented. Negotiates with booking representatives or producers of attractions to arrange terms of contract, play dates, and fees to be paid for engagements. Auditions new talent. Arranges for billing in accordance with contract agreement. Books motion pictures for exhibit into theater chains or independent houses. Selects and rents pictures to be exhibited on basis of potential box-office sales, cast of players, advertising allotment allowed by distributor, and similar factors. May specialize in in-house bookings and be designated according to establishment as Concert Or Lecture Hall Manager (amuse. & rec.); Showplace Manager (amuse. & rec.). May specialize in independent bookings and be designated according to type of talent or of entertainment package represented and placed as Artists' Booking Representative (amuse. & rec.); Theatrical Variety Agent (amuse. & rec.). May specialize in rental and distribution of motion pictures and be designated Film Booker (amuse. & rec.). May represent popular or rock musical groups only and be designated Band Booker (amuse. & rec.). When sponsoring, managing, and producing an entertainment, may be designated Impresario (amuse. & rec.). (references) |
| Places strips of rubberized fabric or rubber between layers of cloth attached to $T3board,$T1 forming books, or places rubber on trays of handtruck to prevent sticking together and to facilitate transportation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Booker, Texas."
Synonym: BookerSynonym: booking agent (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Booker |
| English words defined with "booker": book, Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "booker": FEBRUARY 22, film booker ♦ LEAF SORTER ♦ WASHINGTON, wrapper-leaf inspector. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The People's Booker (2001) Booker (1989) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Booker T. Washington National Monument. Credit: NPS. |  | Young peoples group--NAACP, Booker T. Washington School, Hamilton Co., Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Statue of Booker T. Washington by sculptor, Charles Keck to be unveiled April 5th, at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Booker T. Washington seated with group of men outside the office of Dr. W.T. White, in Palatka, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Oaks - Booker T. Washington's residence at Tuskegee Institute. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Residence of Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Roger Mathews (harmonica), Willie Flowers (guitar), and Booker T. Sapps (harmonica), Belle Glade, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Booker T. Washington | Character, not circumstances, makes the man. |
| Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. | |
| You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. | |
| No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. | |
| The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. | |
| Man will never reach his destiny until he realizes there is as much dignity in tilling the soil as there is in writing a poem. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Booker" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.31% of the time. "Booker" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 89.31% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.69% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "booker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Booker | First name Male | 8,000 | 770 |
| Booker | Last name | 19,000 | 632 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Booker Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Booker, TX (town, FIPS 9448) |
Expressions using "booker": Booker T. Washington ♦ Booker Taliaferro Washington. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "booker": Booker-millburn, booker-nominated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "booker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Italian | booker. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ブチ殺す (book, book band, book cover, book mart, book review, bookend, bookie, booking, bookish, booklet, bookmaker, boutique, Brahms, bridal, bridal bouquet, bridal market, bush, bushman, to kill by hitting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ブッカー . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ookerbay Бухгалтер. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "booker": bookers. (additional references) | |
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"Booker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aboukir, bioherm, blokre, Boake, Boekerij, Bokara, Bokaro, Bokek, Bokert, boket, bokey, Bokor, bonker, boober, boofer, Booka, booke, bookes, bookoo, booler, booner, booper, Boorer, Bouckaert, bouer, Boukar, Boukary, bowker, Bozkurt, bpoke, bucer, fooker, oboer, Otokar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "booker" (pronounced buh"ker) |
| 3 | -uh" k er | cooker, hooker, looker, snooker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rebook. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-k-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: broke, brook. | |
-2 letters: book, boor, bore, broo, kerb, kobo, kore, oboe, robe, rook. | |
-3 letters: boo, bro, kob, kor, obe, oke, orb, ore, reb, rob, roe. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, er, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-k-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bookers, brooked, brookie, prebook, rebooks. | |
+2 letters: booklore, bookrest, brookies, brookite, brooklet, buckeroo, overbook, prebooks, rebooked, yearbook. | |
+3 letters: booklores, bookmaker, bookrests, bookstore, brookites, brooklets, buckeroos, motorbike, overbooks, prebooked, rebooking, workboxes, yearbooks. | |
+4 letters: bookbinder, bookkeeper, bookmakers, bookmarked, bookmarker, bookseller, bookstores, bootlicker, housebroke, motorbiked, motorbikes, overbooked, prebooking, sourcebook. | |
+5 letters: bloodsucker, bookbinders, bookbindery, bookkeepers, bookmarkers, booksellers, bootlickers, crookbacked, housebroken, overbooking, powerbroker, roadblocked, sourcebooks, stockbroker, stockjobber. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6F 6F 6B 65 72 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- --- -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101111 01101111 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B o o k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006F 006F 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368181777184 |
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