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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#m1)

2) The writer's own copy of a book before it is printed, now often typed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#m2)

3) Music written out by hand (manuscript paper). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#x1)
- The museum shows an old manuscript with gold letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#x2)
- The author sent her manuscript to a publisher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#x3)
- This manuscript is hundreds of years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#x4)
- We wrote our tunes on manuscript paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#x5)
- The manuscript was full of crossed-out words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manuscript/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.