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manuscript

[man-yuh-skript]

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noun

the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.

any text not printed.

a book or document written before the invention of printing.

writing, as distinguished from print.

adjective

handwritten or typed, not professionally printed.

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Origin:
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin manūscrīptus written by hand, equivalent to Latin manū by hand (ablative of manus) + scrīptus written; see script

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man·u·script·al, adjective

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When you saved that unpublished manuscript on them, you figured it would be accessible forever.

All she had to do was finish the manuscript and ship it off.

More than two dozen publishers turned the manuscript down.

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When you saved that unpublished manuscript on them, you figured it would be accessible forever.

All she had to do was finish the manuscript and ship it off.

More than two dozen publishers turned the manuscript down.

The percentage that escaped has intrigued manuscript scholars for decades.

The manuscript has been rejected once, but he's trying again.

My dreams of typing the next great manuscript didn't work out.

Here are a few tips for pitching your manuscript that aren't found in the publishers' submission guidelines.

The result is a strange product-more a collection of notes than a polished manuscript.

See images of the fragile manuscript fragments and more.

Readership of popular science books decreases exponentially in the number of equations contained in the manuscript.

The editor, however, requested four copies of the revised manuscript so he could send it out for a second round of review.

Twelve pages of draft, she reckoned, would boil down to one in the finished manuscript.

Traditionally an oral work, the only manuscript of the poem was tragically burned during the nation's civil war.

He was obviously out of control, accusing her of misplacing a page of an original manuscript that she had been typing for him.

Putting a presentation or a manuscript together can also create the necessary momentum to help you refine and advance the work.

Details of how the manuscript was found are clouded.

Many a good manuscript has been turned down because of an ineffective proposal, and.

He self-published the story this year, virtually unchanged from the manuscript he had scribbled in longhand.

What's especially interesting about the text is that it isn't some mysterious relic manuscript left behind by a medieval madman:.

The manuscript consists of two chapters plus five pages of a third.

They are advising that you revise your manuscript before it can be published.

It has the feel of a manuscript written in a hurry.

Create your own illuminated manuscript and learn to card, comb, and spin wool.

The things you worry about: getting a manuscript done, the grant proposal that didn't make.

It didn't change a whole lot from the manuscript that was accepted to what was published, mostly some subtle polishing.

Here's hoping the editor takes a glance at my manuscript soon.

Like an intricately coloured manuscript with oily fingermarks in the margin.

Both authors had failed to get interest from agents or publishers when the books were in manuscript form.

Dasgupta said a reviewer noticed a similarity between the manuscript and an earlier paper from a.

The writer is expected to send along as much service information as possible with the manuscript to help us prepare this section.

Yes, much of this is manuscript gadget-speak designed to justify the pens' exorbitant cost.

If the manuscript has been reviewed once, you should make the revisions and resubmit with a detailed cover letter.

Some consider it to be one of the finest works of manuscript illustration ever created.

By now you should have the major course preps completed, so you should have time on weekends to work on the manuscript.

That's on top of the regular costs of turning a manuscript into a finished product.

The editor determines whether the manuscript seems to be appropriate for the journal, in terms of both content.

Descartes canceled the publication and hid the manuscript.

We have again rewritten the entire manuscript from start to finish.

We submitted a manuscript yesterday and were wondering about the rejection rate.

Focus on publishing peer-reviewed journal articles of the manuscript.

She didn't show the editor a word of her prose until the manuscript was finished, but being checked up on helped her finish.

Any manuscript conservation courses would be more likely to be part of a special collections curriculum.

Most people would agree that tearing up an illuminated manuscript to sell it by the page is vandalism.

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manuscript (ˈmænjʊˌskrɪpt)

—n
1.	a book or other document written by hand
2.	the original handwritten or typed version of a book, article, etc, as submitted by an author for publication
3.	a. handwriting, as opposed to printing
	b. (as modifier): a manuscript document

[C16: from Medieval Latin manūscriptus, from Latin manus hand + scribere to write]

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Word Origin & History

manuscript

1597, from M.L. manuscriptum, from L. manu scriptus "written by hand," from manu, abl. of manus "hand" (see manual) + scriptus, pp. of scribere "to write" (see script). Abbreviation is MS, plural MSS.

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