manuscript

«manuscript» in Mova's school dictionary: A book, story or piece of writing written by hand… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a manuscript, manuscripts)

meaning for a pupil

1) A book, story or piece of writing written by hand, especially an old one from before printing. tree →

2) The writer's own copy of a book before it is printed, now often typed. tree →

3) Music written out by hand (manuscript paper). tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons: monks copied manuscripts by hand and decorated them with gold and colours. In writing: an author sends a manuscript to a publisher. In music: manuscript paper has lines for notes. Phrases: illuminated manuscript, the original manuscript.

examples

• Monks wrote manuscripts with feather pens. tree →
• The museum shows an old manuscript with gold letters. tree →
• The author sent her manuscript to a publisher. tree →
• This manuscript is hundreds of years old. tree →
• We wrote our tunes on manuscript paper. tree →
• The manuscript was full of crossed-out words. tree →
• The Caliph, who liked to have old manuscripts in his library, even though he could not read them, purchased the scroll and the box, and dismissed the pedlar. tree →

note

Countable. Short form: MS (plural MSS). Root "manu" = hand, "script" = writing. An "illuminated manuscript" is decorated with colourful pictures, not lit up with lights.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «manuscript» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.