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Manuscript vs Transcript - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between manuscript and transcript

is that manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced while transcript is something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.

As an adjective manuscript

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

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.
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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.}}
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  • , 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

    transcript

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia transcript) (en noun)
  • Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
  • A copy of any kind; an imitation.
  • A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.
  • (genetics) A sequence of RNA produced by transcription
  • (education) An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.