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Definition: Handbook |
HandbookNoun1. A concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "handbook" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Law | The 3" x 5-3/4" hardbound edition of California Legislature published for each two-year legislative session. Contains indexed versions of the Assembly, Senate, and Joint Rules; biographies of members; and other useful information. Published by the Assembly Chief Clerk and Secretary of the Senate for their respective houses. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HandbookSynonyms: enchiridion (n), vade mecum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Noun: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book. |
Information | Valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary; (journey). |
Journey | Plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, guidebook, road book; Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray; map, road map, transportation guide, subway map. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Handbook |
| English words defined with "handbook": Hornbook ♦ manual. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "handbook": AIR FILM COEFFICIENT ♦ Core War ♦ European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems ♦ first-order logic ♦ NHCP, Nine Days' Wonder ♦ Small-C. (references) |
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Screenplays | . . .that's what I've read in the handbook. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I'm pretty sure it's in the handbook. (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In Handbook of Sleep Disorders. (references) | |
Its publications include a Patient Handbook and a National Newsletter. (references) | ||
Includes a handbook for program administrators, a resource manual, two videotapes, and a training facilitator's manual. (references) | ||
Business | In collaboration with their suppliers, Italian motor vehicle manufacturers have implemented a Guida Valutazione Sistemi Qualita' (handbook for the assessment of quality systems), developed on the basis of ISO 9000 standards. (references) | |
Conformity to EU standards is a self-certification process by which a company, including a U.S. company, needs to make a EU declaration of conformity (in French for France); affix the "CE" marking on the machinery; and issue a technical file and instruction handbook in French. (references) | ||
Children | Belize | In 1998 the National Assembly passed the Families and Children Act, and in 1999 the National Organization for the Prevention of Child Abuse (NOPCA), an NGO, published a handbook for the public that outlines in plain language the provisions of the law. (references) |
Economic History | Uk | The handbook is a briefing tool that supplements the practical advice that can be obtained directly from the ODC in London. (references) |
Uk | To remedy this, the Embassy's Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) has prepared a handbook of unique insights and case studies in UK defense marketing for U.S. companies. (references) | |
Trade | India | ITC (HS), Handbook (Vol.1), Public Notice or a license issued in this behalf applies. (references) |
Zimbabwe | These are described in the Harmonized System Tariff Handbook and other relevant subsequent legislation. (references) | |
Bahrain | According to the Bahrain Customs and Ports Directorate Handbook, a number of items are prohibited from import. (references) | |
Women | Mexico | In June 2000, then-Mexico City Mayor Rosario Robles publicized a handbook written by a coalition of feminist NGO's to reduce domestic violence and to help victims of gender discrimination. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Handbook" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.10% of the time. "Handbook" is used about 448 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 (singular) | 97.1% | 435 | 13,223 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.46% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 448 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "handbook": European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "handbook": handbook-brief. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
occupational outlook handbook | 1,980 |
employee handbook | 506 |
occupational handbook | 482 |
handbook | 171 |
mla handbook | 162 |
terrorist handbook | 81 |
texas handbook | 66 |
the anarchist handbook | 65 |
occupation outlook handbook | 62 |
machinerys handbook | 54 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "handbook"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | gids (guide, guidebook). (various references) | |
Albanian | regjistër i bastëve, manual (enchiridion, workbook), gidë turistike. (various references) | |
Arabic | كتيب (booklet, leaflet, manual, pamphlet), كراسة (booklet, brochure, manual, pamphlet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | справочник (companion, desk book, digest, directory, reference book, repertory), ръководство (administration, conduct, direction, directory, governance, guidance, guide, lead, leadership, management, running, supervision, textbook, tutelage, tutorage, tutorship), наръчник (companion, enchiridion, manual, vade mecum), пътеводител (guide, guidebook, itinerary, vade mecum), помагало (aid, appliance, reference book, stand by, textbook). (various references) | |
Chinese | 手册. (various references) | |
Czech | příruèka (manual, reference book, textbook), cestovní prùvodce. (various references) | |
Danish | instruktionsbog (instruction book, instruction manual, operator's handbook), betjeningsinstruktion (instruction book, instruction manual, operator's handbook). (various references) | |
Dutch | vademecum (guide, guidebook, vade-mecum), reisgids (guide, guidebook, timetable, tourist guide), gidsboek (guide, guidebook, guide-book), gids (directory, guide, guidebook, guide-book, leader). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gvidlibro (guide, guidebook). (various references) | |
Farsi | کتاب راهنما (Directory, Guide, Guidebook, Manual), کتاب دستی (Manual), رساله (Act, Booklet, Brochure, Disquisition, Dissertation, Enchiridion, Epistle, Leaflet, Textbook, Tract, Treatise). (various references) | |
Finnish | käsikirja (guide, manual). (various references) | |
French | manuel. (various references) | |
German | handbuch (compendium, guide, instruction book, instruction manual, instructions for use, manual, operating instructions, set of instructions, text-book, vade-mecum). (various references) | |
Greek | εγχειρίδιο (dagger, flick-knife, manual, poniard, stiletto, text book, text-book, vade mecum). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ספר עזר (manual, reference book). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kézikönyv (companion, enchiridion, manual, reference book, reference work, textbook, user's manual, workbook). (various references) | |
Indonesian | buku peganggan. (various references) | |
Italian | manuale (by hand, guide, hand, manual, textbook, text-book). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 必携 (manual, vade mecum). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハンドブック , び"ら" (compendium, disorder, manual), ひっけい (manual, vade mecum), べ"ら" (compendium, manual), ほうて" (body of law, code of law, precious book, thesaurus, treasury of words), かいせつしょ (manual), ようら" (cradle, orchid of Western origin, outline, summary, survey), はやわかり (guide, quick learner, quick understanding), てびきしょ (guide, manual). (various references) | |
Korean | 수첩. (various references) | |
Manx | laue-lioar (companion, manual). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fører (driver, guide, guidebook, leader). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andbookhay.(various references) | |
Polish | przewodnik (guide, guidebook). (various references) | |
Portuguese | manual (class-book, encipher, guide, manual alphabet, text-book, vade mecum, work-book). (various references) | |
Romanian | manual (companion, guide, hand, manual, manually, textbook), îndreptare (amendament, atonement, dressing, laying, redress, relief, reparation). (various references) | |
Russian | руководство (directing, direction, directorship, enchiridion, generalship, governance, guidance, guide, headship, leadership, manual, service manual, textbook), книжка букмекера. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | priručnik (directory, enchiridion, manual, teach-yourself book). (various references) | |
Spanish | manual (manual, textbook, text-book, trade), guía (attendant, back rope, beacon, bed-way, bracket, cable chock, chock, convoy man, convoyer, directory, directory system, enchiridion, exhibitor, face gate, face road, facilitator, fairlead, gate, gate road, guidance, guide, guidebook, guider, interpreter, leader, leading, leading shoot, n., pilot, rail, reference book, side friction block, spigot, summary, terminal, timetable, transom). (various references) | |
Swedish | handbok (companion, compendium, desk book, guide, guidebook, manual, procedure manual, regulations book, regulations manual, textbook). (various references) | |
Thai | หนังสือคู่มือ. (various references) | |
Turkish | rehber (careers officer, cicerone, conductor, courier, directory, guidance conselor, guide, guidebook, pathfinder, pilot), el kitabı (companion, guide, guidebook, how-to-do-it book, manual, primer). (various references) | |
Ukranian | посібник, довідник (calendar, catalogue, dictionary, digest, directory, enchiridion, reference book, repertory). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sổ tay hướng dẫn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | manuale. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "handbook": handbooks. (additional references) | |
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"Handbook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sandook. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "handbook" (pronounced ha"ndbuh'k) |
| 4 | -d b uh' k | guidebook. |
| 3 | -b uh' k | checkbook, cookbook, hornbook, logbook, matchbook, notebook, overbook, passbook, pocketbook, Schoolbook, scrapbook, sketchbook, sourcebook, storybook, textbook, yearbook. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-h-k-n-o-o" | |
-2 letters: dahoon. | |
-3 letters: aboon, adobo, honda, hooka. | |
-4 letters: ankh, band, bank, bond, bonk, book, boon, dank, dhak, dona, hand, hank, hobo, honk, hood, hook, kaon, khan, knob, koan, kobo, nook. | |
-5 letters: abo, ado, and, bad, bah, ban, boa, bod, boo, dab, dah, dak, don, had, hao, hob, hod, hon, kab, koa, kob, nab, nah, nob, nod, noh, noo, oak, oho, oka, ooh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-h-k-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: handbooks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6E 64 62 6F 6F 6B |
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| Semaphore (1791, 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)01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100010 01101111 01101111 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n d b o o k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006E 0064 0062 006F 006F 006B |
| 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)4267807068818177 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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