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Manuscript vs Scroll - What's the difference?

manuscript | scroll |

As nouns the difference between manuscript and scroll

is that manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced while scroll is a roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.

As an adjective manuscript

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

As a verb scroll is

(computing|transitive) to change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.

manuscript

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * script

    scroll

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
  • (architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
  • A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
  • Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
  • (geometry) a skew surface.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
    • She scrolled the offending image out of view.
  • To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
    • The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.
  • (internet) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
    • Hey, stop scrolling !
  • * 1998 , "rOOth", Brain's chat'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.queen )
    • It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl(SIC) could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.

    Derived terms

    * overscroll * scrollbar, scroll bar * scroll lock * scroll wheel * side scroller English ergative verbs