Manuscript and Text

Manuscript

Manuscript noun - Writing done by hand.
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Synonyms for Manuscript

Text is a synonym for manuscript in book topic. In some cases you can use "Text" instead a noun "Manuscript", when it comes to topics like document, written output.

Text

Text noun - A book used for instruction in a subject.
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Synonyms for Text

Manuscript is a synonym for text in book topic. You can use "Manuscript" instead a noun "Text", if it concerns topics such as written output.

Nearby Word: textual

How words are described

full full manuscript full text
original original manuscript original text
actual actual manuscript actual text
entire entire manuscript entire text
Other adjectives: real, important, ancient, holy, new, hidden, last, ending, different, historical, greek, Egyptian.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Film of the Book 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).
  • Also, part of the manuscript of Heiðarvíga saga (Saga of the Heath-Slayings) was destroyed in the fire of Copenhagen 1728, and the existing text of the lost parts was reproduced by scholar Jón Grunnvíkingur from memory.
  • Canis Latinicus The mission scene in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America has background music whose text, the score's composer admits in a DVD feature (and demonstrates in the manuscript score), runs: "Scrotum agitato, Ignoramus, Genitilis longuis, Hemorrhidus burnum all day long."
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