The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year[…]
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Bookend
Synonyms for "bookend" (3 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (1)
Verb(1 words)
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1 entriesat location
7 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriesused for
12 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 19 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- aguantallibres noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 書擋 /书挡 noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Danish
1 entries- bogstøtte noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Dutch
1 entries- boekensteun noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Esperanto
1 entries- libroapogilo noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Finnish
1 entries- kirjatuki noun (object designed to keep books upright)
French
1 entries- serre-livre noun (object designed to keep books upright)
German
2 entries- Buchstütze noun (object designed to keep books upright)
- einrahmen verb (to come before and after, or at both sides of)
Hungarian
1 entries- közrefog verb (to come before and after, or at both sides of)
Icelandic
1 entries- bókastoð noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Italian
1 entries- reggilibro noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Japanese
2 entries- ブックエンド noun (object designed to keep books upright)
- 本立て noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Korean
1 entries- 북엔드 noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Norwegian
1 entries- bokstøtte noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Portuguese
1 entries- bibliocanto noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Russian
2 entries- книгодержа́тель noun (object designed to keep books upright)
- подпо́рка для книг noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Spanish
1 entries- sujetalibros noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Swedish
1 entries- bokstöd noun (object designed to keep books upright)
Welsh
2 entries- pentan llyfrau noun (object designed to keep books upright)
- pentan llyfrau noun (object designed to keep books upright)
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In both Episode 1 and Episode 9, which serve as bookends, Burns found fascinating footage of a 1938 event at which President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to living veterans who wore the Blue and the Gray; […]
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[…] radio techniques, including the use of sound montage and the placement of musical "bookends" at the beginning and end of radio programs […]
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And it seemed, perhaps fancifully, that those two moments had become the bookends of a generation and of a nation’s frayed sense of equilibrium.
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