textbook
[
tekst
-b
oo
k]
/ˈtɛkstˌbʊk/
noun
1.
a
book
used by students as a standard work for a particular branch of study.
adjective
2.
pertaining to, characteristic of, or seemingly suitable for inclusion in a textbook; typical; classic:
a textbook case.
Origin
1720-30;
text
+
book
Examples from the web for
textbook
Over in the plant lab, hands-on exhibits take basic botany lessons out of the
textbook
realm.
Formerly, science was taught by the
textbook
method, while now the laboratory method is employed.
In
textbook
economics, this should have had no impact on spending.
Others are huge-about the size of a large
textbook
-with a big speaker and controls.
The
textbook
instructions for such studies are merely to sit and observe.
And now it is a
textbook
example of how the world's poor are often left without basic health services.
There, he set about to transform a village that could have been a
textbook
case of rural dysfunction.
It's also a
textbook
example of how that complex works.
They're having a press conference now, and in many ways, it's a
textbook
case of what not to do.
textbook
charts trace a progression upwards on the evolutionary scale from the four legged to the two legged among us.
British Dictionary definitions for
textbook
textbook
/
ˈtɛkstˌbʊk
/
noun
1.
a book used as a standard source of information on a particular subject
(
as modifier
):
a textbook example
Derived Forms
textbookish,
adjective
Word Origin and History for
textbook
n.
also
text-book
, 1779, from
text
(n.) +
book
(n.).