different between textbook vs monogram

English

Etymology

text +? book

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?kst.b?k/

Noun

textbook (plural textbooks)

1. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

Alternative forms

• text-book (obsolete)

Translations

Adjective

textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)

1. Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
   • 2000, Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence

     They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
2. Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
   • 2003, Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy

     In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:textbook.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• monogramme (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From French monogramme, from the Classical Latin adjective monogrammus, from the conjectured Ancient Greek * ??????????? (monógrammos, “outlined”, “drawn with single lines”).

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. (obsolete) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.

References

• “†monogram, n.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Etymology 2

Formed as mono- +? -gram, by analogy with epigram.

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. (obsolete, rare) A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.

References

• “†monogram, n.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Etymology 3

The noun derives from the post-Classical Latin monogrammum, itself from the Byzantine Greek ??????????? (monógrammon); compare the French and Middle French monogramme, as well as the Italian monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution.

Translations

References

• “monogram, n.³” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Verb

monogram (third-person singular simple present monograms, present participle monogramming or monograming, simple past and past participle monogrammed or monogramed)

1. (transitive) To mark something with a monogram.

Translations

References

• “monogram, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Anagrams

• nomogram

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From mono- +? -gram

Noun

monogram n (definite singular monogrammet, indefinite plural monogram or monogrammer, definite plural monogramma or monogrammene)

1. a monogram

References

• “monogram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From mono- +? -gram

Noun

monogram n (definite singular monogrammet, indefinite plural monogram, definite plural monogramma)

1. a monogram

References

• “monogram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Noun

monogram m inan

1. monogram

Declension