Meaning & use
spiral notebook
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Meaning
nouncountable
A notebook whose pages are held together by a wire coil through holes along one edge.
Grammar: Countable: use a/an or a plural: a spiral notebook, two spiral notebooks.
Patterns
- a spiral notebook
- spiral notebooks
I bought a spiral notebook for my chemistry class.
She tore a page out of her spiral notebook and handed it to me.
The store sells spiral notebooks in several sizes.
Word forms
| plural | spiral notebooks |
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Common combinations
- a spiral notebook
- He always carries a spiral notebook in his backpack.
- spiral-bound notebook
- The library gives out spiral-bound notebooks during exam week.
- page of a spiral notebook
- Her phone number was written on a page of a spiral notebook.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- spiral-bound adjective
- Describes a book or notebook held together by a spiral wire.
Commonly confused: spiral notebook or binder?
spiral notebook vs binder
A binder has rings you can open to add or remove pages; a spiral notebook has a fixed wire coil.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'spiral notebook' correctly?
Choose one answer.
A spiral notebook is the whole notebook, so you write in it, not in its wire or metal. The other options treat the binding as the place you write.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “spiral notebook”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.