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BOOK BINDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
Example:
the book had a leather binding
Synonyms:
back; binding; book binding; cover
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("book binding" is a kind of...):
protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "book binding"):
half binding (book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another)
three-quarter binding (the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover)
Holonyms ("book binding" is a part of...):
book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)
