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Inscriptions vs Manuscript - What's the difference?

inscriptions | manuscript |

As nouns the difference between inscriptions and manuscript

is that inscriptions is while manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

As an adjective manuscript is

handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

inscriptions

English

Noun

(head)
  • ----

    manuscript

    Adjective

    (-)
  • handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
  • *
  • , 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= 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,
  • 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.
  • Abbreviations

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    Derived terms

    * manuscriptal * manuscription

    Synonyms

    * handwrit * autograph * handwriting