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textbook

Wikipedia textbook (plural textbooks)

1. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)

1. 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?

     It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.

   • 2000, Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence?

     They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.

   • 2004, David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela?

     ...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.

2. Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon.
   • 1997, Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa?

     It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.

   • 2003, Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay?

     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...

   • 2003, Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy?

     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.

Definizione dizionario textbook

	libro di testo
	formal manual of instruction

manuale

manuale scolastico

Altri significati:

Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon.

Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.

A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

Book used in the study of a subject that contains a systematic presentation of the principles and vocabulary of a subject.

of or pertaining to textbooks or their styles

having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon