Textbook vs Encyclopedia - What's the difference?
textbook | encyclopedia |
A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
* 1917 , George Ransom Twiss, A textbook in the principles of science teaching?
* 2000 , Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence?
* 2004 , David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela?
Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
* 1997 , Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa?
* 2003 , Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay?
* 2003 , Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy?
A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with in-depth articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
(dated) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between textbook and encyclopedia
is that textbook is a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges while encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with in-depth articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.As an adjective textbook
is of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.textbook
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.
- They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
- ...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.
- It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.
- Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook , its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...
- In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.
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* (English Citations of "textbook")encyclopedia
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(wikipedia encyclopedia)Alternative forms
* (chiefly British) encyclopaedia * (obsolete)Noun
- I only use the library for the encyclopedia , as we’ve got most other books here.
- His life's work was a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics.