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Scribe vs Handwrite - What's the difference?

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Scribe is a synonym of handwrite.


As verbs the difference between scribe and handwrite

is that scribe is to write while handwrite is to write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed.

As a noun scribe

is one who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.

scribe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
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  • # A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession(w).
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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,
  • (archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
  • A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
  • A writer, especially a journalist.

    • Synonyms

    * amanuensis * scrivener * tabellion

    Derived terms

    * scribal *

    Verb

    (scrib)
  • To write.
  • To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
    • (Spenser)
  • To record.
  • To write or draw with a scribe.
  • (carpentry) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.; so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
  • To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

    • Related terms

    * ascribe * circumscribe * describe * inscribe * prescribe * proscribe * shrive * transcribe

    See also

    * notary

    External links

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    handwrite

    English

    Verb

  • To write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 28, author=Billie Cohen, title=Searching for a Caretaker, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Whoever you get, whether its the neighbor down the street or somebody you dont know, type or even handwrite exactly what the duties and responsibilities are and have both parties sign it, Mr. Dunn said. }}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 30, author=Felicia R. Lee, title=Harry Potter Prequel for Charity, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The 800-word work (on a paper slightly bigger than a postcard) is one of 13 works submitted by a group of authors that includes Doris Lessing , Tom Stoppard , Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby , The Associated Press reported. Ms. Rowling used both sides of her card to handwrite the prequel to her seven-book Potter series. }}

    Synonyms

    *write *scribe