name
Meaning 1
The official technical standard for audio CDs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Phrase guide
red book
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Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Meaning 2
A book, often bound with a red cover, or online equivalent, that is an official, or canonical, collection of data, regulations, or writings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- All the chauntry preestis whos composicions are enrolled in the rede boke. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1479, ed. 1870, p. 419, cited after OED)
- Some years ago I persuaded the L.C.C. to issue a red-book of comparative municipal statistics. Times 25 October 1920, 6/2, cited after OED
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noun
Meaning 3
A book supposedly belonging to the devil and containing the signatures of those in league with him.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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History
Etymology
From red + book, as a fixed title for various official books from the 15th century, especially the Red Book of the Exchequer, a manuscript volume of the 13th century (OED).