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Scribble vs Manuscript - What's the difference?

scribble | manuscript |

As nouns the difference between scribble and manuscript

is that scribble is careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing while manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

As a verb scribble

is to write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.

As an adjective manuscript is

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

scribble

English

Verb

(scribbl)
  • To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry
  • To doodle
  • (obsolete) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
  • Synonyms

    * scrawl

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
  • 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