different between book vs mike

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bo?ok, IPA^(key): /b?k/
• enPR: bo?ok IPA^(key): /bu?k/ (still sometimes northern England; otherwise obsolete)
• plural
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: buck (accents without the foot–?strut split)

Etymology 1

From Middle English booke, book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-West Germanic *b?k, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”).

Alternative forms

• booke (archaic)

Noun

book (plural books)

1. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
   • 1962, James East Irby translating Luis Borges as "The Library of Babel":

     I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.

   • 1983, Steve Horelick & al., "Reading Rainbow":

     I can be anything.
     Take a look!
     It's in a book:
     A reading rainbow.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51:

     Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’

   She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.

   He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.

2. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

   I have three copies of his first book.

3. A major division of a long work.

   Genesis is the first book of the Bible.

   Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.

   Synonyms: tome, volume

4. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

   I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.

5. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.

   a book of stamps

   a book of raffle tickets

   Synonym: booklet

6. (theater) The script of a musical or opera.

   Synonym: libretto

7. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.

   Synonyms: account, record

8. (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
9. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
10. (poker slang) four of a kind
11. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
12. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
13. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
14. (figuratively) Any source of instruction.
15. (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
    • 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)

      The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.

    • 1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly (volume 21, page 36)

      On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:book

Hyponyms

• See Thesaurus:book

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See book/translations § Noun.

See also

• incunable
• scroll
• tome
• volume

Etymology 2

From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English b?cian, ?eb?cian, from the noun (see above).

Verb

book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)

2. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

   Synonym: reserve

3. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

   They booked that message from the hill

   Synonyms: make a note of, note down, record, write down

4. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

   The police booked him for driving too fast.

5. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
6. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.

   He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.

   Synonyms: bomb, hurtle, rocket, speed, shoot, whiz

7. To record bets as bookmaker.
8. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.

   The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.

9. (intransitive, slang) To leave.

   He was here earlier, but he booked.

Derived terms

Translations

See book/translations § Verb.

Etymology 3

From Middle English book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-Germanic *b?k, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakan? (“to bake”).

Verb

book

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake

References

Anagrams

• Boko, Koob, boko, bòkò, kobo

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buok, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?k/

Noun

book n (plural beuk)

1. book

Mansaka

Noun

book

1. piece

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English b?c.

Noun

book (plural books)

1. Alternative form of booke

Etymology 2

From Old English b?c.

Noun

book (plural books)

1. Alternative form of bouk

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

book

1. imperative of booke

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

Alteration of mic, clipping of microphone. Attested since 1927.

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (informal) A microphone.
   • 1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange, Ayer Publishing, ?ISBN, page 28,

     "Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike, […]

   • 1981, John Swaigen, How to Fight for What’s Right: The Guide to Public Interest Law, James Lorimer & Company, ?ISBN, pages 118–119,

     Obviously, one must watch what one says in the vicinity of a microphone. More than one person has made a “private” statement in the presence of an open mike.

   • 2007, John Sellers, Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, page 85,

     When the haggard bartender informed us that there would be an open-mike event later in the evening, I got my first sense that not everyone in Manchester cared about the music the city has produced.

Translations

Verb

mike (third-person singular simple present mikes, present participle miking, simple past and past participle miked)

1. To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on.
   • 1994 September, Jim Gaines, transcribed in Alan di Perna, "Step Lively: Recalling the recording process of SRV’s IN STEP with album producer Jim Gaines", in Guitar World Magazine, reprinted in Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan: Stevie Ray In His Own Words, Hal Leonard (1997), ?ISBN, page 81,

     “And sometimes I’d just have to mike the room. You could run into some weird phasing problems with the individual mics because the speakers were all reacting differently.”

   • 1996, J.R. Robinson, quoted in Mark Huntly Parsons, The Drummer’s Studio Survival Guide: How to get the best possible drum tracks on any recording project, Hal Leonard, ?ISBN, page 72,

     He knows me, I know him, and I know how he’s going to mike the drums and what selection of mic’s he's going to use.

   • 2006, Glenn Haertlein, Project Vectus, Lulu, ?ISBN, page 108,

     “Zeb, is everything go on the AV equipment?” I heard Jim ask. ¶ “Yep,” Zeb replied. “I just need to mike him up.” […] “All set,” he said once he clipped the wireless microphone to my shirtfront.

2. To measure using a micrometer.
   • 1983, Tom S. Wilson, How to Rebuild Your Big-block Chevy, HPBooks, ?ISBN, page 98,

     Measure Valve-Stem Diameter—To be positive about it you’ll have to mike the valve stem with a 1-in. micrometer as explained on pages 100 and 101.

Usage notes

• This term is often found in the synonymous phrasal verb mike up, as in the 2006 quotation above.

Translations

Alternative forms

• mic

Etymology 2

From Mike, representing the letter m.

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (military, slang) A minute.

   We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].

Etymology 3

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (slang) Short for microgram.
   • 1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims (page 43)

     The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.

Anagrams

• Keim, Kemi, Kime, kime

Japanese

Romanization

mike

1. R?maji transcription of ??