Manuscript and Paper

Manuscript

Manuscript noun - Writing done by hand.

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Paper and manuscript are semantically related. in document topic. In some cases you can use "Paper" instead a noun "Manuscript".

Paper noun - A piece of paper with information written or to be written on it.

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Manuscript and paper are semantically related. You can use "Manuscript" instead a noun "Paper".

Nearby Words: papered, paperback, paperwork, papery, papering

old	old manuscript	old paper
original	original manuscript	original paper
single	single manuscript	single paper
actual	actual manuscript	actual paper
Other adjectives: real, important, final, mysterious, last, different.

Inverted in an episode of The Nanny in which Fran picks up an old piece of paper from Maxwell's desk: it's from an original Shakespeare manuscript, specifically "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

Source: Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
The manuscript (on display at the Sci-Fi Museum in Seattle), is a handwritten stack of paper that is taller than the author.

Source: Literature / The Baroque Cycle
A palimpsest is a page of a manuscript that has had the text scraped off and been reused as blank space, a medieval practice (paper was expensive).

Source: The Film of the Book

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