# textbook
## English
### Etymology

From text +‎ book.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA: /ˈtɛkst.bʊk/
** Audio (California):(file)
** Audio (Texas):(file)
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈtekst.bʊk/

### Noun

textbook (plural textbooks)
* (education) A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

#### Alternative forms

* text-book (obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* e-textbook
* textbook case
* textbook example
* textbook fear

#### Translations
### Adjective

textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)
* (literally) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
** 1917, George Ransom Twiss, A textbook in the principles of science teaching:It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.
** 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.
** 2004, David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela:...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.
* (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
** 1949, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Nineteen Eighty-Four‎, part three:All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness—everything has been burned out of her. It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case.
** 1997, Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa:It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.
** 2003, Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay:Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook, its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...
** 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.
** 2016 October 10, “The Cohabitation Experimentation”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 10, episode 4, spoken by Bernadette (Melissa Rauch):It would help if you would stop telling me I have a textbook cervix.
** 2020 December 11, Patricia Mazzei, “A State Scientist Questioned Florida’s Virus Data. Now Her Home’s Been Raided.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:“That’s textbook bad security practice, and this is an example of why — it’s cumbersome to revoke access and hard to attribute actions to the responsible people,” said J. Alex Halderman, a computer science and engineering professor at the University of Michigan.
** 2022 July 27, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 58:In Scotland, the Tay [bridge] fell (in part) as textbook testament to the brittleness of cast iron.
* (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
    Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.
* (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.
    He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.

#### Quotations

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

#### See also

* casebook (adjectival form)

### References

* textbook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “textbook”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.