单词 | bookwork |
释义 | > as lemmasbookwork bookwork n. (a) the study of books; book learning; (also) teaching which is based on textbooks; (b) Printing the printing of books or similar matter, as opposed to job work (see job n.2 2b) (now chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [noun] > study of books readingeOE bookeOE bookworkOE bookery1597 society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > books imprintingc1440 book printing1550 bookwork1755 OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity (Junius) 75 Bisceopes dægweorc, ðæt bið mid rihte his gebedu ærest and ðonne his bocweorc, ræding oððon rihting, lar oððon leornung. 1705 Oculist 5 Even the best recorded Golden Rule of Art, may prove but a fallible Tradition, if Book-work Knowledge were the Physicians only Guide. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 48 It can hardly be supposed that he who shall have particular occasion for large letter only, should lay his money out upon such Founts as are required for Book-work. 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich viii. 72 He'll think me..Neither better nor worse for my gentlemanship and book-work. 1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching 150 Book-work for lessons has obvious advantages. 1926 W. H. Slater What Compositor should Know iii. 1 The work of the composing department..is divided roughly into two sections: ‘Bookwork’ and ‘Jobwork’. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird iv. 44 College was a lot harder than High School, book work didn't come easy to me there. 2007 D. Winship in S. E. Casper et al. Hist. of Bk. in Amer. III. i. 45 This free combination of type styles was particularly characteristic of job printing... The text types used for bookwork were available and used in a great, if less obviously extravagant, variety of designs. < as lemmas |
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