MANUSCRIPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manuscript mean? 

• MANUSCRIPT (noun)
  The noun MANUSCRIPT has 2 senses:

1. the form of a literary work submitted for publication

2. handwritten book or document

  Familiarity information: MANUSCRIPT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANUSCRIPT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The form of a literary work submitted for publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

manuscript; ms

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

holograph; manuscript

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))

 Context examples 

To cap misfortune, the postman, in his afternoon round, brought him five returned manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Up from below came another sound that broke in upon Walt reading softly from his manuscript.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But Jo got out her desk and began to overhaul her half-finished manuscripts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If you are a producer or editor, you will be given an opportunity to share ideas with the creator to shape the show or manuscript you are working on.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Do you know why I asked her to get the manuscript?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I occasionally made a pretence of wanting a page or two of manuscript copied.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The manuscript so wonderfully found, so wonderfully accomplishing the morning's prediction, how was it to be accounted for?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute publishes manuscripts that describe new findings of particular significance in any area relating to cancer, as well as associated news items, reviews, and opinion pieces.

(Journal of the National Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

Evaluations usually include an explicit recommendation of what to do with the manuscript or proposal.

(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)

But, fortunately, Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.

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