Book
Book noun - A set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction.
Usage example: I bought another new book yesterday, and I can't wait to read it
Textbook is a synonym for book in work topic. In some cases you can use "Textbook" instead a noun "Book", when it comes to topics like published document.
Textbook
Textbook noun - A book prepared for use in schools or colleges.
Usage example: his economics textbook is in its tenth edition
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- But your textbook fighting style isn't gonna work on the man who wrote the book!
Source: Wrote the Book - Steam Punk: The alternate timeline from the second book is a pretty textbook case.
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Once a publisher couldn't make a textbook before the deadline and chose to send the textbook committee in California a book consisting only of a cover and blank pages.
Source: Blank Book
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