tome
a very large and heavy book
TRANSLATION
tome = der Band tome = (fig.) der Wälzer, der Schinken --- GOOGLE INDEX tome: approximately 41,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Tina Brown knows how to throw a book party. "Never let anyone sit down in the same seat for longer than exactly 17 minutes," said the editor of Newsweek Wednesday night, at her Sutton Place town house, where she was throwing a party for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's second TOME, "Onward."
(Wall Street Journal)
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After considerable delay, the Town of Greenwich is about to adopt its first new drainage regulations in more than 50 years. The new drainage manual is a 135-page engineering TOME, replete with 12 appendices and full of such phrases as percolation rates, turbidity, low impact development, and storm water constituents.
(Greenwich Times, Connecticut, U.S.A.)
(Wall Street Journal)
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After considerable delay, the Town of Greenwich is about to adopt its first new drainage regulations in more than 50 years. The new drainage manual is a 135-page engineering TOME, replete with 12 appendices and full of such phrases as percolation rates, turbidity, low impact development, and storm water constituents.
(Greenwich Times, Connecticut, U.S.A.)
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tome
noun
- a large, heavy book
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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In Oxford in 1860, less than a year after the publication of "On The Origin of Species", Darwin's tome that laid the groundwork for the theory of evolution, there was a famous spat between Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, and the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley.
Legend has it that Wilberforce, in front of a packed auditorium, asked Huxley whether he claimed descent from a monkey on the side of his grandfather or his grandmother.
It was a Victorian bishop's idea of a joke. Huxley didn't think it was so funny though. White with rage, he rose and said that he would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop, especially one who used his intellectual powers to introduce light-heartedness into a serious discussion.
(adapted from BBC News)
Etymology: from the Latin "tomus", meaning a section of a book, and from the Greek "tomos", which refers to a volume or section of a book (originally meant a section or a piece cut off).
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SYNONYMS
great work, magnum opus, novel, volume, work
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If you want management to read your reports, keep it simple and don't write a tome."
noun
- a large, heavy book
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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In Oxford in 1860, less than a year after the publication of "On The Origin of Species", Darwin's tome that laid the groundwork for the theory of evolution, there was a famous spat between Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, and the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley.
Legend has it that Wilberforce, in front of a packed auditorium, asked Huxley whether he claimed descent from a monkey on the side of his grandfather or his grandmother.
It was a Victorian bishop's idea of a joke. Huxley didn't think it was so funny though. White with rage, he rose and said that he would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop, especially one who used his intellectual powers to introduce light-heartedness into a serious discussion.
(adapted from BBC News)
Etymology: from the Latin "tomus", meaning a section of a book, and from the Greek "tomos", which refers to a volume or section of a book (originally meant a section or a piece cut off).
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SYNONYMS
great work, magnum opus, novel, volume, work
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If you want management to read your reports, keep it simple and don't write a tome."
