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1. (n.) scribe
a professional copyist, esp. one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
2. scribe
a public clerk or writer, esp. one with official status.
3. scribe
one of a group of Palestinian scholars and teachers of Jewish law and tradition, active from the 5th century b .c . to the 1st century a .d ., who transcribed, edited, and interpreted the Bible.
4. scribe
a writer or author, esp. a journalist.
5. (v.i.) scribe
to act as a scribe; write.
6. (v.t.) scribe
to write down.
7. (v.t.) scribe
to mark or score (wood or the like) with a pointed instrument as a guide to cutting or assembling.
Etymology: (1670–80; perh. aph. form of inscribe)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe
French playwright (1791-1861)
2. (noun) scribe, scribbler, penman
informal terms for journalists
3. (noun) copyist, scribe, scrivener
someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
4. (verb) scriber, scribe, scratch awl
a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
5. (verb) scribe
score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Scribe
one who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist
2. (noun) Scribe
a writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people
3. (verb) Scribe
to write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe
4. (verb) Scribe
to cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts
5. (verb) Scribe
to score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron
6. (verb) Scribe
to make a mark
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