Reserve (accommodations, a place, etc.); buy (a ticket) in advance

• - I have booked a table at the Swan

• - book early to avoid disappointment

Reserve accommodations for (someone)

• - his secretary had booked him into the Howard Hotel

• - book me a single room at my usual hotel

Engage (a performer or guest) for an occasion or event

Have all appointments or places reserved; be full

• - I'm booked till, like, 2011

Make an official record of the name and other personal details of (a criminal suspect or offender)

• - the cop booked me and took me down to the station

A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers

• - a book of selected poems

• - a book on cats

• - a book report

A literary composition that is published or intended for publication as such a work

• - the book is set in the 1940s

• - I'm writing a book

Used to refer to studying

• - he is so deep in his books he would forget to eat

A main division of a classic literary work, an epic, or the Bible

• - the Book of Genesis

The libretto of an opera or musical, or the script of a play

The local telephone directory

• - is your name in the book?

The Bible

A magazine

An imaginary record or list (often used to emphasize the thoroughness or comprehensiveness of someone's actions or experiences)

• - she felt every emotion in the book of love

A bound set of blank sheets for writing or keeping records in

• - an accounts book

A set of records or accounts

• - he can do more than balance the books

A bookmaker's record of bets accepted and money paid out

A set of tickets, stamps, matches, checks, samples of cloth, etc., bound together

• - a pattern book

• - a book of matches

The first six tricks taken by the declarer in a hand of bridge