What's the difference between manuscript and palimpsest?

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  • (11) I also lost 650 unpublished manuscripts which are pieces that had been written especially for me.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).

Palimpsest


Definition:

  • (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He wrote in the memoir Palimpsest that he had more than 1,000 "sexual encounters" – nothing special, he added, compared with the pursuits of such peers as John F Kennedy and Tennessee Williams.
  • (2) But the way an area has been used over time, both above and below ground, can also be presented as a layered historical palimpsest, which can serve the purposes of archaeological justice and memory – as with ScanLAB’s Living Death Camps project with Forensic Architecture, on two concentration-camp sites in the former Yugoslavia.
  • (3) His two memoirs – Palimpsest and its sequel, Point To Point Navigation, published in 2006 – describe friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Margaret and Leonard Bernstein.
  • (4) HarperCollins, which runs the 4th Estate imprint, said the crucial mistake happened when a small Scottish typesetter, Palimpsest, sent "the last but one version" of the book file to the printers.
  • (5) And Vidal more or less admitted it himself, writing in his memoir Palimpsest that he was "attracted to adolescent males".
  • (6) Among individual phenomena the following are important: in stage I regular contact with the drug (04) and increased tolerance (05), in stage II secret drinking (2) and frequency of palimpsests (7), in stage III signs derived mostly from rationalization and alcohol-centered behaviour and finally in stage IV impaired thinking (33), reduced tolerance (37) and possible ethic degradation (32).
  • (7) He claimed in his memoir Palimpsest that by the age of 25 he had had more than 1,000 sexual encounters with men and women, tending towards what he called "same-sex sex".
  • (8) In Palimpsest he recalled finding, "to my surprise", that Kerouac was circumcised.
  • (9) The man who was recording our podcast in the other room was listening through the wall; he said the word "palimpsest" (I remember it, in my earphone).
  • (10) Timbuktu is a palimpsest in the sand that proves otherwise.
  • (11) He published a gossipy but moving memoir, Palimpsest (1995), which cut back and forth between the author's present, mostly in Ravello, and his first four frenetic decades.
  • (12) Loss of control (8) in the reported form is closer to the onset of development and the frequency of palimpsests (7) develops later, usually is overlaps with prolonged drunkedness (31).
  • (13) At the onset of development dominates "non-adaptive" drinking evaluated frequently as loss of control and in the more advanced stage the constant incidence of palimpsests causes frequent intoxication and declining tolerance.