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Copyist vs Copier - What's the difference?

copyist | copier |

As nouns the difference between copyist and copier

is that copyist is a person who makes written copies of manuscripts; a scrivener or scribe while copier is a machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.

copyist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person who makes written copies of manuscripts; a scrivener or scribe

    • copier

    English

    (wikipedia copier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
  • A person who copies documents.
  • (computing) A program or process that copies.
    • a file copier'''; a disk '''copier

    Synonyms

    (machine) * duplicator * copy machine

    Hyponyms

    (machine) (one particular kind of copier) * photocopier * xerox machine * xerography machine