Document vs Manuscript - What's the difference?
document | manuscript |
An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support. Any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
* Paley
(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
* I. Watts
(obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To record in documents.
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts , […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
As nouns the difference between document and manuscript
is that document is an original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support. Any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol while manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.As a verb document
is to record in documents.As an adjective manuscript is
handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.document
English
Noun
(wikipedia document) (en noun)- Saint Luke judged to be authentic.
- Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time.
- They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others.
Derived terms
* *Verb
(en verb)- He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
- A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
References
* English heteronyms ----manuscript
English
(wikipedia manuscript)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,