单词 | answer book |
释义 | answer bookn.ΚΠ 1828 Irish Law Recorder 30 Oct. 573/2 His clerk brought said answer to the Register's office, from whence it appears, it was brought to the Rolls, and entered in the private answer book there. 1869 1st Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland App. xxi. 53 in Parl. Papers 1868–69 XXVI. 643 Corresponding books to these [sc. Pleading Books] were kept in the Rolls Office, styled ‘Answer Books’. 2. A book containing the correct answers to a test, examination, quiz, etc., used as a guide for marking or checking answers. ΚΠ 1856 T. Haughton To Teachers 11 One boy reads the answer from the slate, and the boy with the answer book says right or wrong. 1908 Youth's Compan. 12 Nov. 577/3 In school they have an answer-book To tell what sums are right; But teacher will not let us look. 1973 Math. Gaz. 57 74 The answer book is just that with no guidance or hints. 1998 V. Walkerdine Counting Girls Out x. 146 She tried to work back from the answers in the answer book. 2004 (title) Scottish Heinemann maths: answer book. 3. A book answering questions about, or giving information on, a particular topic. Frequently with modifying word specifying the subject area covered.Cf. earlier question and answer book at question and answer adj. ΚΠ 1884 Lords & Commons: Usurpation, Obstruction, & Wasted Session 36 A question-book might be kept, in which members should register their various questions, and an answer-book in which Government should register the corresponding answers. 1919 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. e8/1 (heading) Local workers supplied with loose-leaf answer books that tell almost everything. 1963 A. Upton & R. W. Samson (title) Answer book to creative analysis. 2008 T. Delaney (title) The sensory processing disorder answer book: practical answers to the top 250 questions parents ask. 4. A book or booklet in which students write the answers to a test, examination, etc. ΚΠ 1893 Pract. Teacher Jan. 386/1 Tutors..have..been relieved of..the mechanical reproduction of papers.., stamping answer-books, and a thousand other things incidental to such work. 1904 Times of India 2 Sept. 5/4 He got hold of the..[younger student's] answer book, and on it forged his own name, number, etc. 1959 Times of India 13 Aug. 3/2 The English answer books of candidates..are ‘packed with..inaccuracies both of thought and language.’ 2006 S. Croft Letts Revise GCSE: Eng. & Eng. Lit. 183 Write your answers in the answer book provided. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1828 |
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