Book vs Gam - What's the difference?
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A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
A major division of a long work.
A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
The script of a musical.
(usually, in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
(legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
(poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) [http://www.poker1.com/mcu/pokerdictionary/mculib_dictionary_info.asp The Official Dictionary of Poker]. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
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To reserve (something) for future use.
To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
(law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
(sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
(slang) To travel very fast.
To record bets as bookmaker.
(law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
(slang) To leave.
(bake)
(slang) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.
* 2010 , Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad (ISBN 0743446356), page 19:
* 2012 September 10, (Ariel Levy), "The Space In Between", in The New Yorker :
(Collective noun used to refer to) a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.
* 1862 , Henry Theodore Cheever, The Whalemen's Adventures in the Southern Ocean , Darton & Hodge, page 116:
* 1985 , Dennis Kyte, To the Heart of a Bear: The Last Elegant Bear (ISBN 067154781X):
* 2010 , Jack White, Mastery of Self Promotion (ISBN 0557339510), page 119:
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(by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , Harper and Brothers,
* 1916 , Harry B. Turner, Nantucket's Early Telegraph Service'', in the ''Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association , page 50:
* 1997 , Gillies Ross, ?Margaret Penny, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country (ISBN 0773516743), page 14:
* 2007 , Tom Chaffin, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah (ISBN 0374707006), page 230:
(nautical) To make a social visit on another ship at sea.
* 2008 , Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (ISBN 0393066665), page 436:
* 2011 , Paul Schneider, The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod (ISBN 0805067345), page 255:
* 2014 , James Revell Carr, Hawaiian Music in Motion (ISBN 0252096525), page 181:
(rfv-sense) .
* 1992 , Kenneth Darwin, Familia 1992: Ulster Geneological Review: Number 8 (ISBN 0901905569):
As nouns the difference between book and gam
is that book is book while gam is (slang) a person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg or gam can be (collective noun used to refer to) a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod or gam can be .As a verb gam is
(nautical) to make a social visit on another ship at sea.book
English
(wikipedia book)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates)Cognate with (etyl) (m), . The sense development of beech'' to ''book'' is explained by the fact that smooth gray beech bark was commonly used as bookfell.J.P. Mallory, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "beech" (London: Fitroy-Dearborn, 1997), 58.Noun
(en noun)- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book .
- I have three copies of his first book .
- Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Many readers find the first book of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' to be confusing.
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
Synonyms
* (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material) tome (especially a large book) * booklet * tome, volume * (script of a musical) libretto * (records of the accounts of a business) accounts, recordsDerived terms
* address book * audiobook * book account * book agent * book-answerer * book award * book-bearer * bookbinder * book-board * book-bosomed * book-bound * book-boy * book-burning * book canvasser * bookcase * book-cloth * book club * book concern * book-crab * book-credit * book-debt * book-edge gilder * book-edge marbler * book end, bookend * bookery * booketeria * book-farmer * book-folder * book-form * bookful * book-ghoul * book-gill * book hand * book-holder * bookhood * book-house * book-hunt * bookie * bookish * bookism * bookjacket * bookkeeper * bookkeeping * book-label * book-lare * book-law * book-lear * book-learned * book-learning * book-length * bookless * booklet * booklike * bookling * booklore * booklouse * book lung * bookly * bookmaker * bookmaking * bookman * bookmark, bookmarker * book match * book-mate * book-mindedness * book mite * bookmobile * book-muslin * book name * book-number * book-oath * book of first entry * book of original entry * Book of the Dead * book of the film * Book of God * book of lading * book of life * book of rates * book of reference * book of the living * book of words * book-packet * book piles * bookplate * book pocket * book-post * book-postage * book-press * book price * book prop * book-rate * book-read * bookrest * book-scorpion * bookseller * bookselling * bookshelf * bookshop * book-shy * booksie, booksy * book-slide * book-society * book-stack * bookstall * book-stamp * bookstand * bookstore * book support * booksy * book-table * book token * book trade * book-tray * book-trough * book type * book value * bookwards * book-ways * bookwise * bookwork * book-world * bookworm * book-wright * booky * bring to book * burn book * by the book * casebook * closed book * close the books * coffee-table book * comic book * cookbook * cookery book * cook the books * copybook * coursebook * e-book * exercise book * the Good Book * guidebook * handbook * hymn book * in anyone's book * in my book * in someone's bad books * in someone's good books * in the books * know like a book * logbook * make book * matchbook * notebook * off the books * on the books * open book * passbook * pension book * phrasebook * pocket-book, pocketbook * prayer book * ration book * reading book * read like a book * reference book * rough book * scrapbook * sketch book * songbook * storybook * suit one's book * take a leaf out of someone's book * talk like a book * textbook * throw the book at * without book * wordbook * workbook * yearbookSee also
* incunable * scroll * tome * volumeVerb
(en verb)- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- They booked that message from the hill
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- He was really booking , until he passed the speed trap.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- He was here earlier, but he booked .
Synonyms
* (to reserve) reserve * (to write down) make a note of, note down, record, write down * (to travel very fast) bomb (slang), hurtle, rocket (informal), speed, shoot, whiz (informal)Derived terms
* bookable * double-book * overbook * rebook * unbook * underbookEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
* (l) * (l)gam
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone.
- The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies – the so-called second wave of feminism – introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams , and beaver.
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Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Upon getting into a "gam " of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others, and succeeded in getting square up to their victim unperceived.
- Breakfast was interrupted as a gam of porpoises surrounded the Argyle , swaying in the foam and singing in gurgles and beeps.
- Christmas day in 1998, we lived on the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California and watched a gam of whales breaching in the deep ultramarine water.
chapter 53:
- But what is a Gam'? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it. ' Gam . NOUN—A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats’ crews, the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.
- There is still that yearning for news from Nantucket that there was when the whale-ships stopped for a gam out in the far-distant Pacific Ocean
- If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner.
- Twice each year, the Russian Navy sent out such ships to provision Russian whalers in the Sea of Okhotsk. In sailing toward the supposed Russian ship, the Abigail ’s captain, Ebenezer Nye, was hoping for a gam with the ship's officers
Verb
- Although most whalemen looked forward to gamming and enjoyed these ocean-borne gatherings, there were at least a few whalemen who either grew weary of them, or just weary of gamming so often with the same ships over and over.
- This was early in the summer of 1820, after nearly a year at sea, and they had gammed the whaling ship Aurora, which had on board not only plenty of letters but some newspapers as well.
- In chapter 2 we saw how gamming whalers sang songs that tied them to their homelands while emphasizing the transient, cosmopolitan nature of their work,
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- At some stage some gam of an official decided that Guihen should be translated to the English name Wynne.