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.
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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]