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reference works
- Books and other works that contain useful facts and information, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and bibliographies .
Example Sentences
His walls are lined with shelves of well-thumbed books, from his childhood comic collection to reference works on art and anthropology, Victoriana and zoology.
In many sections of the Washington area, the almost biblical quantities of rain might have caused many residents to look through reference works to consult instructions for constructing an ark.
Its storage disks were filled with digitized reference works, Wikipedia entries and electronic books.
While discussing some classic reference works, the polymath Guy Davenport extolled the detail and clarity of the Century’s engraved, thumbnail-sized illustrations.
The cash seized would have financed about 2 percent of the film, which, reference works say, cost a little more than $1 million.
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