MANUSCRIPT

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The form of a literary work submitted for publication

Synonyms:

manuscript; ms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("manuscript" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Handwritten book or document

Synonyms:

holograph; manuscript

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("manuscript" is a kind of...):

autograph (something written by one's own hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manuscript"):

codex; leaf-book (an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll))

palimpsest (a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible)

roll; scroll (a document that can be rolled up (as for storage))

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Context examples:

Aghast, he dropped the manuscript among the chessmen and stared in bewilderment round the room.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Work by Dr Richard Randall, a co-author on the manuscript from the University of St Andrews, has shown that influenza viruses are good at hiding their RNA.

('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )

This manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure; but to me, who know him, and who hear it from his own lips—with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Whether Zambo can at last take these letters to the river, or whether I shall myself in some miraculous way carry them back with me, or, finally, whether some daring explorer, coming upon our tracks with the advantage, perhaps, of a perfected monoplane, should find this bundle of manuscript, in any case I can see that what I am writing is destined to immortality as a classic of true adventure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894, I confess that it is very difficult for me, out of such a wealth of material, to select the cases which are most interesting in themselves, and at the same time most conducive to a display of those peculiar powers for which my friend was famous.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You may hand in a report, manuscript, thesis, or other project you worked on for weeks or months or see your work published, and your work will be very well received.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He looked at the manuscripts in the corner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Half-finished boats and bits of string lay among the manuscripts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained undiscovered in a room such as that, so modern, so habitable!