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Reference Book

Definition: Reference Book

Reference Book

Noun

1. A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Reference Book

Synonyms: book of facts (n), reference (n), reference work (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Reference Book

English words defined with "reference book": annualbook of factsCross referencedictionaryenchiridionhandbooklexiconreference, reference workvade mecumwordbookyearbook. (references)
Specialty definitions using "reference book": cargo cult programming, Chapter and VerseDevil BookLIBRARIAN, SPECIAL COLLECTIONSQuestionnaire Reference BookRESERVATIONS AGENTSansloytelephone-sales agent. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Reference Book

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adobe Type Library Reference Book (reference)

  • Shooter's Bible 2003: The World's Standard Firearms Reference Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Apba Reference Book (reference)

  • Branham Automobile Reference Book - Deluxe Bound Volume (reference)

  • Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book (reference)

  • Jerry Osbornes Rockin Records : Buyers Sellers Reference Book And Price Guide (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reference Book

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reference book

1,220

medical reference book

18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reference Book

Language Translations for "reference book"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

libër referimi. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

справочник (companion, desk book, digest, directory, handbook, repertory), помагало (aid, appliance, handbook, stand by, textbook). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

工具書 (trade book; reference book). (various references)

   

Czech

  

slovník (dictionary, vocabulary), příruèka (handbook, manual, textbook), encyklopedie (encyclopaedia, encyclopedia). (various references)

   

Danish

  

referenceværk. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

naslagwerk. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hakuteos. (various references)

   

French

  

livre de référence. (various references)

   

German

  

Nachschlagebuch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βιβλίο παραπομπήσ, βιβλίο αναφοράς, πληροφοριακό βιβλίο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ספר יעץ, ספר עזר (handbook, manual). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

segédkönyv (reference work), kézikönyv (companion, enchiridion, handbook, manual, reference work, textbook, user's manual, workbook). (various references)

   

Italian

  

libro di consultazioni, libro di consultazione. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

レバレッジ効果 (left, left wing, leverage effect, referee, referee's position, reference, reference service, reflector, reflex camera, repertoire, repertory, repertory system, review, reviewer, revue), 引"書 , 参考書 , 参考図書 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

レファレンスブック , さ""うしょ, さ""うとしょ, い"ようしょ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lioar chur sheese, jesheydane. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eferenceray ookbay

   

Portuguese

  

obra de referência, livro de consulta. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

справочник (catalogue, companion, desk book, directory, enchiridion, handbk handbook, handbook, manual, reference manual). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

libro de referencia, libro de consulta, 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, handbook, interpreter, leader, leading, leading shoot, n., pilot, rail, side friction block, spigot, summary, terminal, timetable, transom). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

referensverk, referensbok, uppslagsbok (encyclopaedia, encyclopedia, thesaurus). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

довідник (calendar, catalogue, dictionary, digest, directory, enchiridion, handbook, repertory). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Reference Book

Misspellings

"Reference Book" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: refference book. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Reference Book

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-e-e-f-k-n-o-o-r-r"

-4 letters: ferrocene, reenforce, reference.

-5 letters: beckoner, conferee, confrere, enforcer, forborne, freeborn, reckoner.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reference Book


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 66 65 72 65 6E 63 65      42 6F 6F 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#102 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#111 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0066 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0065      0042 006F 006F 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527172718471806971236818177

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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