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# handbook

noun (a handbook, handbooks)

«handbook» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A handbook is a small book that gives useful facts and instructions about a subject, or rules about a place, such as a school or a club. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/#m1)

### In the lessons

In everyday life schools give families a school handbook with rules, times and uniform lists. Scouts, Guides and many clubs have handbooks. Workers get a staff handbook. In science, a field handbook helps you identify birds or plants. It tells the reader where to find the rules or the facts.

### Examples

- Read the school handbook to find the uniform rules. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/#x1)
- The bird handbook helped us name the robin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/#x2)
- Every new Cub Scout gets a handbook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/#x3)
- The staff handbook explains what to do in a fire drill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/#x4)
- Check the handbook before you set up the tent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/#x5)
- The teacher's handbook lists all the science experiments. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/#x6)

### Note

Countable. One word. Similar to «manual» (instructions for a machine) and «guide»; a handbook is usually a reference you keep looking things up in.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «handbook» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handbook/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«handbook» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/handbook.html) on Mova free.