Book and Reference

Book

Book noun - A set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction.

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Reference and book are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Reference" with "Book", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: booked, bookish, booklet, booking, bookie

Reference noun - A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts.

Usage example: he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic

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Book and reference are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Book" instead a noun "Reference".

full	full book	full reference
particular	particular book	particular reference
specific	specific book	specific reference
original	original book	original reference
Other adjectives: single, small, actual, entire, real, big, obscure, little, early, later, last, giant, earlier, aforementioned, biblical.

The Wheel of Time has Fog and Steel.The name of the book is probably a reference to "the fog of war," a term coined by Carl von Clausewitz's famous Big Book, On War.

Source: Big Book of War
You need to have the spell book as reference however (Which is to say, you equip the spell book).

Source: Video Game / Ziggurat
A deleted scene has Krusty promoting an inappropriate book called "SEX", a reference to a Madonna book by the same name.

Source: Recap / The Simpsons S 4 E 22 Krusty Gets Kancelled

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