Bookcase
noun
A piece of furniture with shelves used to hold books.
She arranged her books neatly on the bookcase.
Often appears as...
- build a bookcase
- bookcase shelf
noun
A piece of furniture with shelves used to hold books.
She arranged her books neatly on the bookcase.
Often appears as...
- build a bookcase
- bookcase shelf
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Pro Tip 1/3Home Vocabulary
Bookcase is used when discussing furniture or organizing a living space; linked to home decor.
I'm thinking of buying a new bookcase for my living room.
Pro Tip 2/3Size Matters
Bookcases vary in size; be specific if needed, like 'tall bookcase' or 'small bookcase'.
I need a small bookcase for my studio apartment.
Pro Tip 3/3Material Specific
Describing materials can specify type, like 'wooden,' 'metal,' 'glass bookcase'.
The antique wooden bookcase complemented the vintage decor.
Pro Tip 1/3Home Vocabulary
Bookcase is used when discussing furniture or organizing a living space; linked to home decor.
I'm thinking of buying a new bookcase for my living room.
Pro Tip 2/3Size Matters
Bookcases vary in size; be specific if needed, like 'tall bookcase' or 'small bookcase'.
I need a small bookcase for my studio apartment.
Pro Tip 3/3Material Specific
Describing materials can specify type, like 'wooden,' 'metal,' 'glass bookcase'.
The antique wooden bookcase complemented the vintage decor.
Pro Tip 1/3Home Vocabulary
Bookcase is used when discussing furniture or organizing a living space; linked to home decor.
I'm thinking of buying a new bookcase for my living room.
Pro Tip 2/3Size Matters
Bookcases vary in size; be specific if needed, like 'tall bookcase' or 'small bookcase'.
I need a small bookcase for my studio apartment.
Pro Tip 3/3Material Specific
Describing materials can specify type, like 'wooden,' 'metal,' 'glass bookcase'.
The antique wooden bookcase complemented the vintage decor.
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Why do cats act so...
in her food bowl today, but instinctually, viewing the living room from the top of the bookcase is exactly what she has evolved to do. As wild predators, cats are opportunistic and hunt whenever prey is available. Since most cat prey are small, cats in the wild needed to eat many times each day,
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How Your Memory Works --...
and context helps us retrieve that memory because memory is the connected neural network of associations. So in the bedroom, all the cues for what you needed were there, right? The bookcase, the book you're reading, the time of day, it's bedtime, "Oh, I need glasses."
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Why do cats act so...
in her food bowl today, but instinctually, viewing the living room from the top of the bookcase is exactly what she has evolved to do. As wild predators, cats are opportunistic and hunt whenever prey is available. Since most cat prey are small, cats in the wild needed to eat many times each day,
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How Your Memory Works --...
and context helps us retrieve that memory because memory is the connected neural network of associations. So in the bedroom, all the cues for what you needed were there, right? The bookcase, the book you're reading, the time of day, it's bedtime, "Oh, I need glasses."
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Laura Wade
British Playwright
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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Jonathan Nolan
British Writer
Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.
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David Lindsay-Abaire
American Playwright
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
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Samantha Bee
American Comedian
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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Russell Tovey
English Actor
I am a bit O.C.D. I have a colour-coordinated bookcase. The books are arranged by the colour of the spine. It looks cool, but people come in and think I am slightly mental.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
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Graham Elliot
American Chef
I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.
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David Linley
British Royalty
My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.
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Laura Wade
British Playwright
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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Jonathan Nolan
British Writer
Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.
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David Lindsay-Abaire
American Playwright
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
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Samantha Bee
American Comedian
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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Russell Tovey
English Actor
I am a bit O.C.D. I have a colour-coordinated bookcase. The books are arranged by the colour of the spine. It looks cool, but people come in and think I am slightly mental.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
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Graham Elliot
American Chef
I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.
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David Linley
British Royalty
My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.
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