manuscriptman‧u‧script /ˈmænjəskrɪpt/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
I read his novel in manuscript. Unfortunately, parts of the original manuscript have been lost.2a book or document written by hand before printing was invented: a fine collection of medieval manuscripts
WORD ORIGINmanuscript
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin manu scriptus ‘written by hand’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- All Kingston's original manuscripts were lost in the fire.
- ancient manuscripts
- The finished manuscript was sent to the publisher on 3 January.
- We were shown some of the ancient manuscripts and rare books that are kept in the British Library.
- Among the first to see the manuscript were two of his colleagues, journalist Dontun Adebayo and editor Steve Pope.
- Back went the manuscripts to other editors.
- Dear Professor Doctor: Your manuscript is safe.
- He gathered up the music manuscript into a tidy pile and put his pencil slant-wise across the top.
- Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck, the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.
- The books were in manuscript and the text was interspersed with lively pen-and-ink sketches.
- This did not deter him, as, between 1980 and 1984, he completed over 400 pages of manuscript.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that has been written or printed
· There's some writing on the back of this photo, but I can't make out what it says.in writing · All bids must be submitted in writing to the above address.piece of writing · Below each picture was a short piece of writing in Arabic script.
writing, especially a small amount of writing: the words: · The words were very faint but I could make out the name 'Alex'.· She scrawled the words 'I love you' on my desk.
the written part of a book, newspaper etc, not including notes, pictures etc: · The front page had no text, just a photograph of the Princess and a huge headline.· You can cut and paste whole blocks of text very easily on screen.
a copy of a book which is written by hand or typed, often before it is printed: · The finished manuscript was sent to the publisher on 3 January.· We were shown some of the ancient manuscripts and rare books that are kept in the British Library.
a piece of writing written on, or cut into, the surface of a stone, coin etc: · We read the inscriptions on the graves, and wondered what each of those lives had been like.· It was an engraved silver plate bearing the inscription 'Made for His Majesty George III June 1737'.
rude, humorous, or political writing on the walls of buildings, trains etc: · The corridors are very dirty, and the walls are covered with graffiti.
a piece of writing. A paper document is usually an official or legal one. A document that you produce on a computer is something you type into a particular file: · Several secret documents went missing from the government's Information department.· Your birth certificate is an important document, which should be kept safe at all times.· Open a new document (=on a computer) and name it "resume".· You can attach any documents to an email and send them to friends or colleagues.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Unfortunately, parts of the original manuscript have been lost.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Unfortunately, parts of the original manuscript have been lost.· The ancient manuscript which sparks it all off is ingeniously devised to yield two possible meanings, one mystic, one mundane.· The result of this sad story is that we have 4, 000 ancient Samaritan manuscripts all over the world.· Other ancient manuscripts give the number as seventy-two which shows that even then there was some confusion about statistics!· We went on a tour of the ancient manuscripts, the antique mazes.· Many feature museums displaying such artifacts as ancient icons and manuscripts, stylized crosses and other ritual objects.
· The historical sections of the exhibition include early charters, manuscripts, views of London before and after the Great Fire.
· The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.· An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.· She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.· Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.· The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.· His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
· Many medieval manuscripts have decorated borders filled with comic animals and birds and people.· It comprises an extensive accumulation of medieval manuscripts, and a number of antiquarian collections.· It was perfect, like the letter-high illuminations in a medieval manuscript.· Similar techniques have been used on the fire-damaged medieval manuscripts of our Cotton collection.
· Any College treasures, any old manuscripts for example?· He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.· Nearly a hundred years ago there emerged from an obscure Suffolk parish an eight hundred year old manuscript book of the Gospels.· Ward kept old manuscripts down there.
NOUN· The assignments will include typing of varying difficulty from printed and manuscript copy.
VERB· Here we find that the manuscripts themselves may vary in the figures they give.· He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.
· The collection, which included rare artefacts and manuscripts, was encased in the bubbles whilst the bookcases were treated for woodworm.· Types of material treated include books, manuscripts, maps, globes, photographs and ephemera material.· This epilogue is included in still fewer manuscripts than the shorter prologue.· The historical sections of the exhibition include early charters, manuscripts, views of London before and after the Great Fire.
· Holmes is alone, leaning back in his chair, reading a manuscript piled on his desk.· Having read both manuscripts carefully I had no doubts at all that both men were speaking the truth.· It was therefore an important moment when Tolkien gave Lewis the Lay of Leithian to read in manuscript.
· Submission Format: Send the complete manuscript.· This is how it should be: a fast publication of results after a conference or after sending in a manuscript.· And it also it makes more fun sending in a manuscript.· It must be rare for a publishing house to be sent a manuscript twice after an interval of 62 years.
· The E text, despite surviving in a manuscript eighty years younger than that of C, may sometimes preserve better readings.· As well as church music many of the earliest troubadour lyrics, with their accompanying melodies, survive in manuscripts from St Martial's.
· In Britain, copyright exists as soon as a song is recorded on to tape or written on manuscript.· John Ferrar's Life of Nicholas was not published at the time when it was written and the manuscript disappeared until 1790.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a book or piece of writing before it is printedin manuscript- An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
- Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
- His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
- It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
- She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
- The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
- The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
I read his novel in manuscript. Unfortunately, parts of the original manuscript have been lost.2a book or document written by hand before printing was invented: a fine collection of medieval manuscripts