Publication vs Manuscript - What's the difference?
publication | manuscript |
The act of publishing printed or other matter
* Jonathan Swift
An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution
The communication of information to the general public etc.
* Jeremy Taylor
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 publication and manuscript
is that publication is the act of publishing printed or other matter 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.publication
English
Noun
- The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others.
- His jealousy attends the business, the recreations, the publications , and retirements of every man.
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,