Monograph
['mɒnəgrɑːf] or ['mɑnəɡræf]
Definition
(noun.) a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject.
Typist: Winfred--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.
Inputed by Lawrence
Definition
n. a treatise written on one particular subject or any branch of it.—v.t. to write a monograph upon.—ns. Monog′rapher Monog′raphist a writer of monographs.—adjs. Monograph′ic -al pertaining to a monograph: drawn in lines without colours.—n. Monog′raphy a representation by one means only as lines: an outline drawing.
Typed by Avery
Examples
- Are you not the author of a monograph upon obscure nervous lesions? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I think of writing another little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its relation to crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Denny