What's the difference between copyist and manuscript?

Copyist


Definition:

  • (n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First of all, amid the chaos Degas found endless repetition of standard movements and poses, providing plenty of opportunities for the relentless copyist, the champion draughtsman, to get some daring and implausible postures absolutely convincing and right, creating a series of interior landscapes accessible without having to go outdoors.
  • (2) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
  • (3) At moments, she sounds like an advertising copyist for Mills & Boon.
  • (4) Apple can portray it as a looter of intellectual property, a copyist, an unimaginative follower.
  • (5) Sniffin' Glue wasn't the first fanzine – Punk (which famously coined the genre's moniker) started self-publishing in New York six months earlier – but its primitive Xerox'n'Sellotape aesthetic was the perfect medium to capture British punk's early energy, and to inspire a generation of copyists.
  • (6) They became skilled calligraphers and, hailing from far and wide, they would work as copyists to pay for their digs.
  • (7) Sherman had started out painting, and is still a good copyist.
  • (8) This isn’t globalisation: this is Big Finance and its copyists, trampling over workers, families, communities.
  • (9) On that longest and most crowded of streets there were dozens of dealers, auction houses, restorers and copyists, art suppliers, exhibition halls and galleries.

Manuscript


Definition:

  • (a.) Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
  • (a.) A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.
  • (a.) Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent studies, including those presented in this manuscript, indicate that 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 and, perhaps, increases of the serum calcium concentration inhibit transcription of the calcitonin gene resulting in decreased production of calcitonin.
  • (2) In this manuscript the epidemiologic, clinical, histopathologic, immunologic and etiologic aspects as well as possible therapeutic modalities for the management of hormone-mediated desquamative gingivitis are examined.
  • (3) Exhibits donated by his family include the manuscript of the 1928 novel Años y Leguas (Years and Leagues), Miró’s love letter to the Alicante province.
  • (4) Therefore, the acronym NAALADase seems to be incorrect, and peptidase activity against NAAG will be used throughout this manuscript when referring to the enzyme that cleaves NAAG and whose activity is inhibited by quisqualate and beta-NAAG.
  • (5) She sent the finished manuscript to Elaine Greene , a London literary agent.
  • (6) The precise fate of the manuscripts was difficult to verify.
  • (7) The following, therefore, is not just another detailed manuscript regarding the skin of primates.
  • (8) 7 and D. Page, M.R.G., K. Fahey, L. Matsuuchi and A.L.D., manuscript submitted for publication), but may not be sufficient, as agents that elevate calcium and activate protein kinase C cause only partial growth arrest.
  • (9) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (10) The second episode, that of Dean Vaughan, has been reconstructed for the first time using the Broadlands Manuscripts of Lord Palmerston.
  • (11) I also lost 650 unpublished manuscripts which are pieces that had been written especially for me.
  • (12) A manuscript's abstract may be the determining factor in the article's acceptance for publication or presentation.
  • (13) This manuscript will focus on the computer program and the data base designed for the oncology department and its impact on nurses and patients.
  • (14) In this manuscript the pathology of human arterial disease, including diseases of the aorta, coronary arteries, and peripheral arteries, is reviewed.
  • (15) The primary purpose of this manuscript is to demonstrate the qualitative and quantitative radiologic signs indicative of the diagnosis and the surgical management resulting therefrom.
  • (16) This manuscript summarizes the preclinical and clinical findings on the metabolic modulation of FUra activity by dThd and folinic acid.
  • (17) But Labour and Lib Dem sources said they would be tabling manuscript amendments to the crime and courts bill in the Lords to remove the threat.
  • (18) Each note is like a little illuminated manuscript in your wallet.
  • (19) To illustrate the extent of time lags from manuscript submission to journal publication certain "core" journals in neurology and general medicine have been surveyed.
  • (20) Brownlee and E.M. Cartwright (manuscript in preparation).

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