Explore Manuscript through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like writing or autograph. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Manuscript meaning
Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
Using Manuscript
- The main meaning on this page is: Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
- Useful related words include: ms, writing, written material, piece of writing.
- In the example corpus, manuscript often appears in combinations such as: the manuscript, manuscript of, manuscript was.
Context around Manuscript
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Manuscript
- In this selection, "manuscript" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, original, completed, ellesmere, sources, produced and knight stand out and add context to how "manuscript" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mysterious manuscript known as and a single manuscript first transcribed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "manuscript" sits close to words such as ballet, concentrate and contributes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with manuscript
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fragments IV and V, by contrast, vary in location from manuscript to manuscript. (13 words)
The first completed manuscript, called the original manuscript, was completed using a variety of scribes. (15 words)
An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration. (17 words)
David Russell Hulme studied the handwriting in the score's manuscript and confirmed that it is that of Eugen, not of his father Charles (as had erroneously been reported by Jacobs), both of whose script he sampled and compared to the Patience manuscript. (43 words)
The second completed manuscript, called the printer's manuscript was a copy of the original manuscript produced by Oliver Cowdery and two other scribes. citation It is at this point that initial copyediting of the Book of Mormon was completed. (40 words)
Some of the tunes in the Dixon manuscript correspond to tunes found in early 19th century published and manuscript sources of Northumbrian smallpipe tunes, notably the rare book of 50 tunes, many with variations, by John Peacock. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The second completed manuscript, called the printer's manuscript was a copy of the original manuscript produced by Oliver Cowdery and two other scribes. citation It is at this point that initial copyediting of the Book of Mormon was completed.
The government has acknowledged that on April 27, after Bolton had made many cuts to his manuscript, Knight concluded that the revised manuscript draft didn’t contain any classified information at all—let alone any SCI.
A mysterious manuscript known as the Voynich manuscript had kept the scientists baffled thus far as no one was able to solve it.
An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration.
David Russell Hulme studied the handwriting in the score's manuscript and confirmed that it is that of Eugen, not of his father Charles (as had erroneously been reported by Jacobs), both of whose script he sampled and compared to the Patience manuscript.
Erasmus used several Greek manuscript sources because he did not have access to a single complete manuscript.
Fragments IV and V, by contrast, vary in location from manuscript to manuscript.
Girodias had given Burroughs only ten days to prepare the manuscript for print galleys, and Burroughs sent over the manuscript in pieces, preparing the parts in no particular order.
In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called "A Clockwork Orange," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.
It is the only uncial manuscript with the complete text of the New Testament, and the only ancient manuscript of the New Testament written in four columns per page which has survived to the present day.
Reception Chaucer as a Pilgrim from the Ellesmere manuscript Opening prologue of The Wife of Bath's Tale from the Ellesmere Manuscript.
Some of the tunes in the Dixon manuscript correspond to tunes found in early 19th century published and manuscript sources of Northumbrian smallpipe tunes, notably the rare book of 50 tunes, many with variations, by John Peacock.
The "discovery" of Beowulf in a single manuscript, first transcribed in 1818, came under the impetus of Romantic nationalism, after the manuscript had lain as an ignored curiosity in scholars' collections for two centuries.
The first completed manuscript, called the original manuscript, was completed using a variety of scribes.
The first two volumes comprise the facsimile manuscript, while the third contains a comparison of the manuscript and the first printings, annotated by Clive Driver.
The manuscript by the original author (Brunette) was lost until shortly after the replacement manuscript (by Carson) was published.
The mystery of the meaning and origin of the manuscript has excited the popular imagination, making the manuscript the subject of novels and speculation.
The one surviving manuscript from this period is the mid- to late-15th century Westminster Manuscript, which contains a portion of the Long Text (not naming Julian as its author), refashioned as a didactic treatise on contemplation.
The printer's manuscript was not used fully in the typesetting of the 1830 version of Book of Mormon; portions of the original manuscript were also used for typesetting.
The Syndicate's process for creating the Nancy Drew books consisted of creating a detailed plot outline, drafting a manuscript, and editing the manuscript.
Common combinations with manuscript
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the manuscript 62×
- manuscript of 16×
- manuscript was 15×
- manuscript and 10×
- manuscript for 8×
- original manuscript 6×
- manuscript in 6×
- in manuscript 6×
- manuscript to 5×
- manuscript the 5×