单词 | scribe |
释义 | scribe/skrʌɪb /noun 1 historical A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.Jean was an illuminator who established a thriving workshop in Bourges with the help of André Rousseau, a scribe, manuscript agent, and the librarian of the university....
Synonyms clerk, secretary, copyist, transcriber, amanuensis, recorder, record keeper; in Africa mallam informal pen-pusher North American informal pencil pusher archaic penman, scrivener, writer 1.1 informal, often humorous A writer, especially a journalist.Burgess's first love was music and the Manchester-born scribe did not plan on becoming a writer but aspired instead to being a composer....
Synonyms writer, author, penman, journalist, reporter informal hack 2 historical A Jewish recordkeeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist. 3 (also scribe awl) A pointed instrument used for making marks on wood, bricks, etc., to guide a saw or in signwriting.A scribe is an easy way to fit material to irregular surfaces....
verb [with object] 1chiefly literary Write: he scribed a note that he passed to Dan...
2Mark with a pointed instrument: mark the position of the lock body on the door edge, then scribe a centre mark...
Derivativesscribal
OriginMiddle English (in sense 2 of the noun): from Latin scriba, from scribere 'write'. The verb was first used in the sense 'write down'; in sense 2 it is perhaps partly a shortening of describe. Rhymes |
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