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When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
Daniel Handler

Meaning of "manuscript" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MANUSCRIPT

From Medieval Latin manūscriptus, from Latin manus hand + scribere to write.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MANUSCRIPT

manuscript  [ˈmænjʊˌskrɪpt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MANUSCRIPT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Manuscript is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MANUSCRIPT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript is any document written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. Before the arrival of printing, all documents and books were manuscripts. In publishing and academic contexts, a manuscript is the text submitted to the publisher or printer in preparation for publication, regardless of the format. Until recently a typescript prepared on a typewriter was usual, but today a digital file with a printout, prepared in manuscript format is most common. Manuscripts are normally required by publishing companies before being published. Manuscripts are not defined by their contents, which may combine writing with mathematical calculations, maps, explanatory figures or illustrations. Manuscripts may be in book form, scrolls or in codex format. Illuminated manuscripts are enriched with pictures, border decorations, elaborately embossed initial letters or full-page illustrations.

Definition of manuscript in the English dictionary

The first definition of manuscript in the dictionary is a book or other document written by hand. Other definition of manuscript is the original handwritten or typed version of a book, article, etc, as submitted by an author for publication. Manuscript is also handwriting, as opposed to printing.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MANUSCRIPT


adscript
ˈædˌskrɪpt
conscript
ˈkɒnskrɪpt
coscript
kəʊˈskrɪpt
crypt
krɪpt
decrypt
diːˈkrɪpt
encrypt
ɪnˈkrɪpt
gripped
ɡrɪpt
JavaScript
ˈdʒɑːvəˌskrɪpt
nondescript
ˈnɒndɪˌskrɪpt
postscript
ˈpəʊsˌskrɪpt
prescript
ˈpriːskrɪpt
proscript
ˈprəʊˌskrɪpt
rescript
ˈriːˌskrɪpt
ripped
rɪpt
script
skrɪpt
subscript
ˈsʌbskrɪpt
superscript
ˈsuːpəˌskrɪpt
tapescript
ˈteɪpˌskrɪpt
transcript
ˈtrænskrɪpt
typescript
ˈtaɪpˌskrɪpt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MANUSCRIPT

manufacturing process
manuhiri
manuka
manuka honey
Manukau
Manukau Harbour
manul
manumea
manumission
manumit
manumitted
manumitter
manumitting
manurance
manure
manure heap
manurer
manurial
manus

WORDS THAT END LIKE MANUSCRIPT

accept
adopt
attempt
concept
Egypt
examination script
except
film script
Gothic script
kept
nonreceipt
opt
pt
receipt
sales receipt
sept
shooting script
slipt
till receipt
VAT receipt

Synonyms and antonyms of manuscript in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «manuscript» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MANUSCRIPT

Find out the translation of manuscript to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of manuscript from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «manuscript» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

手稿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

manuscrito
570 millions of speakers

English

manuscript
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पांडुलिपि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَخْطُوطٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

манускрипт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

manuscrito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাণ্ডুলিপি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

manuscript
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Manuskrip
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Manuskript
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

原稿
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

원고
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Manuskrip
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bản viết tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கையெழுத்துப் பிரதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हस्तलिखित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

el yazması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

manoscritto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rękopis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

манускрипт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

manuscris
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χειρόγραφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

manuskrip
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

manus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

manuskript
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of manuscript

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MANUSCRIPT»

The term «manuscript» is very widely used and occupies the 10.014 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MANUSCRIPT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «manuscript» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «manuscript» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about manuscript

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10 QUOTES WITH «MANUSCRIPT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word manuscript.
1
Steve Berry
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.
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Dick Bruna
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
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Aimee Carter
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
4
Tabatha Coffey
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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Aleister Crowley
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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Kiran Desai
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.
7
Katherine Dunham
Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
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Seth Grahame-Smith
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
9
Margaret Haddix
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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Daniel Handler
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MANUSCRIPT»

Discover the use of manuscript in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to manuscript and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830
With examples from across Europe, this work will be of great value to all readers studying this period, whether in the humanities or the sciences.
David McKitterick, 2003
2
Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written ...
This Biblical Resource Series combined edition corrects and expands Gerhardsson's original works and includes a new preface by the author and a lengthy new foreword by Jacob Neusner that summarizes these works' importance and subsequent ...
Birger Gerhardsson, 1961
3
Print, Manuscript, & Performance: The Changing Relations of ...
The eleven essays in this volume explore the complex interactions in early modern England between a technologically advanced culture of the printed book and a still powerful traditional culture of the spoken word, spectacle, and manuscript.
Arthur F. Marotti, Michael D. Bristol, 2000
4
The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the ...
A detailed and highly illustrated survey of medieval book hands, essential for graduate students and scholars of the period.
Albert Derolez, 2003
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The Book That Started It All: The Original Working ...
Presents a working draft of the original manuscript of "The Big Book" for Alcoholics Anonymous, revealing handwritten changes, and including two essays, annotated notes on the text, a transcription of a 1954 speech by AA cofounder Bill ...
Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 2010
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English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700
Encompassing the study of manuscripts produced in the British Isles between the Conquest and the end of the seventeenth century, this series provides a forum for the interdisciplinary investigation of both medieval and Renaissance ...
Peter Beal, Jeremy Griffiths, 1993
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Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric
In this ground-breaking historical and cultural study of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century lyric poetry, Marotti examines the interrelationship between the two systems of literary transmission and shows how in England manuscript and ...
Arthur F. Marotti, 1995
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Manuscript Found in Accra
The incredible new novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist.
Paulo Coelho, 2013
9
Introduction to manuscript studies
Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript ...
Raymond Clemens, Timothy Graham, 2007
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The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: ...
An introduction to the history and techniques of manuscript illumination that offers a thorough and accessible historical overview of techniques and processes, illustrated with examples, diagrams, and photographs of craftspeople at work.
Christopher De Hamel, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MANUSCRIPT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term manuscript is used in the context of the following news items.
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Luxury hotel amenities that are over the top - Fortune
... it also hosts an extensive manuscript collection, which includes personal letters, diary entries, and unique photographs from Charles Darwin, ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
2
Green eggs and Jack Daniels? - DurhamRegion.com
The manuscript for Go Set a Watchman, a quasi-sequel to Mockingbird, has remained unpublished for approximately 60 years. One, of course ... «durhamregion.com, Jul 15»
3
The Better Angels of Our Writing - The Chronicle of Higher Education
When I dashed off a sentence in the manuscript about something starting to "stink and rot," she pointed out that things rot first and then they ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul 15»
4
Lawyers in Nassau argue over ownership of Ben Franklin texts …
A Nassau judge heard arguments Monday in a dispute over ownership of a Benjamin Franklin manuscript and other rare texts between the ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
5
Regulatory science: Trust and transparency in clinical trials of …
Second, however valuable a manuscript-length explication of new device data might be to the public, peer-reviewers and journal editorial ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Health News - Blacks are at greater risk for sudden cardiac arrest
... M.D., Ph.D.; Eric C. Stecker, M.D., M.P.H.; Karen Gunson, M.D.; and Jonathan Jui, M.D., M.P.H. Author disclosures are on the manuscript. «HealthCanal.com, Jul 15»
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Chelsea Green Crashing Bernie Sanders Book - Publishers Weekly
The 31-year-old indie press is committed to having books in stores less than eight weeks after the delivery of the manuscript by former National ... «Publishers Weekly, Jul 15»
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'Speaking in Bones,' A Conversation With Kathy Reichs | Mark …
Those are the only parts of my manuscript I let anyone read before submitting it to my editor. For instance, I'll have a forensic odontologist ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
'Chasing Life' fan recap: Maid a bad week - | EW Community | EW.com
Natalie revealed Thomas' manuscript and how his characters resemble them, among the other eerie details the book exposes. Brenna ends up ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
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Harper Lee's old manuscript causes brand new problems for …
Say you've got an old manuscript in a safe deposit box that has never been published and the world doesn't know about either. Say further that ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»

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