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Commit and Book

verb

  • Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
    • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
    • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • Confer a trust upon.
    • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • Make an investment.
    • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • Engage in or perform.
    • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

  • A written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together. )
    • usage: "I am reading a good book on economics"
  • Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together.
    • usage: "he used a large book as a doorstop"
  • A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone.
    • usage: "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the record books"
  • A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance.
  • A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
    • usage: "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
  • A collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game.
  • A collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made.
    • usage: "they run things by the book around here"
  • The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina.
  • The sacred writings of the Christian religions.
    • usage: "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"
  • A major division of a long written composition.
    • usage: "the book of Isaiah"
  • A number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge.
    • usage: "he bought a book of stamps"

verb

  • Engage for a performance.
    • usage: "Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"
  • Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance.
    • usage: "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's"
  • Record a charge in a police register.
    • usage: "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"
  • Register in a hotel booker. .

Book is a term which has several meanings. It can refer to a broker's client list; it may refer to the size and variety of a trader's or trading desk's positions; it may also refer to the process of recording a trade or transaction.