codex — अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोश

संज्ञा

1. An early manuscript book, especially one bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

   उदाहरण

   Only eleven codexes form the division that is intitled CHRISTIAN I.

   To discover and possess Greek codexes then became the ambition of every cultured person

   अधिक उदाहरण (5)

   The great body of Old English poetry is preserved in three volumes, or codexes, of miscellaneous content

   Sarima drew her robes about her, and traced a pattern in the cold dust on a nearby stack of codexes.

   We're still learning about this cache of codexes, and one thing we've learned is that they aren't all "Gnostic" in character.

   But by the time we reach that telescope and the imaginative gallery it introduces, we have seen things even more remarkable: ornately decorated quadrants of enameled brass, metal calipers, arcane charts, minutely inscribed maps, spheres within spheres like compass roses from other worlds, codexes and manuscripts, cylinders, dials, rings, rods and boxes.

   From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility. The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art.

2. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

   समानार्थी शब्द

   pharmacopoeia

   उदाहरण

   the French codex

संज्ञा

1. an official list of chemicals or medicines etc.

   व्यापक अर्थ वाले शब्द

   listlisting

2. an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll)

   समानार्थी शब्द

   leaf-book

   व्यापक अर्थ वाले शब्द

   manuscriptholograph