Hypertext Webster Gateway: "textbook"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Text-book \Text"-book`\, n.
1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room
for notes.
2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher
lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a
schoolbook.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
textbook
adj : according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook;
typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook
example" [syn: {casebook}]
n : a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his
economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the
professor wrote the text that he assigned students to
buy" [syn: {text}, {text edition}, {schoolbook}, {school
text}] [ant: {trade book}]
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