Word Meanings - BOOKWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Work done upon a book or books , in distinction from newspaper or job work. 2. Study; application to books.

Related words: (words related to BOOKWORK)

• STUDY
  A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture. (more
• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• BOOKSHELF
  A shelf to hold books.
• BOOKSELLER
  One who sells books.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• BOOKSTORE
  A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
• NEWSPAPER
  A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements,
• BOOKSTALL
  A stall or stand where books are sold.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• UNDERSTUDY
  To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
• INAPPLICATION
  Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.