Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A prop placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright.
Wiktionary
- n. A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
- n. figuratively Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
- v. To come before and after, or at both sides of
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table)
Examples
“The 49ers were reportedly prepared to swoop up Ole Miss tackle Michael Oher with the No. 10 overall pick, giving them a long-term bookend for 2008 first-rounder Joe Staley.”
“I've noticed that if I have a week, it takes me a day or two to unwind and then of course the bookend is the slight anxiety that builds when I have to re-enter regular life.”
“American titles bookend, with Jonathan Kaplan's anarchic”
“It says something about the ultimately comic core of "The Finkler Question" that Truslove, in a kind of bookend to his mugging, finds himself late in the novel set upon by a group of pro-Palestinian Jewish demonstrators outside a Holocaust museum.”
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“The world-wide success of "Suite Fran aise" is a kind of bookend to N mirovsky's success in the 1930s, when she made a name for herself in France by writing a work very different in tone and intention.”
“That's the final "bookend" to frame the conversation.”
“And we look at it as a kind of bookend to the very beginning.”
“Fleur de Narcisse, btw,is my third and final gift of perfume, one purchased for our anniversary, and a kind of bookend to perfume gestation.”
“Poison Elves #80 should be interesting too as it serves as the 'bookend' issue to the series, with Drew Hayes' last stories and details of where he was going with the series.”
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“This material functions as the prologue and the epilogue, the kind of bookend to the story.”
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
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book phrases and words
having a look at book
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Will do in a Pinch
Odd items, old or new, that might be employed in a way not originally intended. Like using a chopstick for pinning gathered tresses atop the head.
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alpha omega αώ terms
two words that say it all and contrast/complement one another
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National Library Agenda Summit
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foolishbrat's Words
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