Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective & noun Hardcover.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fast or tight; stiff and slow in action; costive.
- Constipated: said of the bowels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
hardback ; -- used of books.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a book Having a
hardcover ;hardback
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a hard back or cover
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Industries Development Commission's Report no. 6: Book Production Inquiry (1978) and Oliver's study (1976) offer statistics indicating that by 1976/77 the ratio of 'hardbound' to 'softbound' books printed in New Zealand was roughly one to three, the reverse of the usual overseas situation.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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The books I keep for myself are normally favorites and I try to keep them in the same form if possible (ie a series in paperback or all hardbound) with the exception of super long series like L.K. Hamilton. lol ...
Angels' Blood Countdown: Jory Strong - Ghostland ARC Nalini Singh 2009
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What I wanted to tell you was my favorite passage in that insert you sent me from Sassy (an appallingly racy post-toddler magazine that I often did look at—and I know you did too) is the one where the foxy guy buys a “hardbound, coffee-table-size book” (and I thought Madonna's Sex was oversized) and then tells the cashier that she has “a good bod but no brain cells” because she short-changed him.
Eidetic Rick Rofihe 2012
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It toppled forward and a hardbound Cézanne catalogue raisonné hit the man in the head.
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That deficiency is dealt with in high style with the unleashing last month of "The Bristol Sessions 1927-1928," a lavish, elucidating boxed set of five CDs and a hardbound book marketed globally by Germany's Bear Family Records.
Country's Big Bang, Revisited Barry Mazor 2011
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Homework, text reviews for tests, and all of the teacher-assigned tasks associated with hardbound books will be formatted for small screens.
How technology will and won't change schools by 2020 Valerie Strauss 2011
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Archaia should be commended for a putting together a wonderful hardbound book.
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Spock sat at one of the carrels, a hardbound volume of Romulan philosophy open to a chapter on Vorkan Trov, a famed existentialist who had lived two hundred years earlier.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Student backpacks will lighten considerably as $100 hardbound books become as obsolete as the rotary dial phone.
How technology will and won't change schools by 2020 Valerie Strauss 2011
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I started reading the posts everyday and then bought the hardbound and trade paperback collections of many different titles.
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