What's the difference between scribe and scrivener?

Scribe


Definition:

  • (n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
  • (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
  • (v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
  • (v. i.) To make a mark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The scribes wrote his words on their tablets of metal and light, to be saved for the ages.
  • (2) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
  • (3) The resulting outline scribed from the orifices tended to be centered mesiodistally on the crown of each group and did not extend to the marginal ridges.
  • (4) A case of life threatening lead poisoning was diagnosed clinically in a Jewish scribe and verified by appropriate laboratory studies.
  • (5) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
  • (6) When I was translating his novel Broken Glass – a novel with no full stops, no sentences, in which a variety of characters relate their stories to a scribe in a downtown bar – I kept thinking of the African voices I heard around me in London.
  • (7) It's back to the battle between scribes and movable type.
  • (8) Following any assessment, results are literally shouted across the fence to a scribe who copies them on to a duplicate record sheet in conditions of safety.
  • (9) I would expect that an organisation so largely composed of journalists might more greatly value the contributions of fellow scribes.
  • (10) The special ink used by the scribe was found to contain lead in appreciable amounts.
  • (11) Eleven more asymptomatic subjects, both scribes and manufacturers of the ink, were studied and five were found to have subclinical lead overload.
  • (12) For scribes copied and recopied books in this city that loved leaning, creating a legacy of works transcribed in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as earlier.
  • (13) The scribes came to Him and they asked him for His words.
  • (14) Robert Newton Oldham • "Ignore the groans of vested interests" blusters David Cameron's ex-scribe Ian Birrell.
  • (15) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
  • (16) Takrit scribes in Cairo – through which the miles-long camel caravan of the king of the vast Mali Empire passed – said his wealth and generosity was unlike any they had seen.
  • (17) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
  • (18) Molecular sieve chromatography and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation demonstrated that the chemotactic factor was a relatively low molecular weight product (15,000-30,000) and as such different from previously scribed C' system-derived chemotactic factors.
  • (19) It’s not hard to see what inspired Viking scribes: the island has pockets filled with silences that feel intensely charged.
  • (20) The historian John Man puts the Gutenberg revolution like this : "Suddenly, in a historical eye-blink, scribes were redundant.

Scrivener


Definition:

  • (n.) A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
  • (n.) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
  • (n.) A writing master.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (2) It’s probably safer to reject this scheme,” says Scrivener.
  • (3) * In Chancery, having noted My Lady Dedlock's interest, Mr Tulkinghorn is enquiring about the identity of the scrivener.
  • (4) I have seven days.’” “My reaction at the time was: ‘You’re just talking crazy,’” Scriven, 22, told the Washington Post.
  • (5) Unjust debt, says Scrivener, is often “dictator debt” – money lent by rich countries to poor countries ruled by strongmen, who commonly used it to finance military ventures or vast follies.
  • (6) I don’t think he’s always there.” Scriven also told NBC News that Roof may have changed his plans after deciding the college campus was a harder target to access.
  • (7) A few years ago - Bartleby the Scrivener should have been living at that hour - I had the idea of recording the titles and authors of books as I read them.
  • (8) But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing."
  • (9) Tim Gore, Oxfam’s global head of policy for food and climate change says: “They are two separate issues and just merging the two, you could argue, is one way to let developed countries off the hook.” “It’s definitely an interesting proposal, but I think it’s fundamentally unjust,” says Alex Scrivener, a policy officer for the World Development Movement .
  • (10) Paul Scriven, the Liberal Democrat leader of Sheffield council, said: "Maybe in three or four years time, people will look back and say they were a little bit harsh to the Liberal Democrats."
  • (11) Shirley Scrivener Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire • If we’re going to abolish noxious two-word phrases, how about “throwing money”, from any politician refusing to fund a service properly (eg David Prior, Letters, 12 November ).
  • (12) From as far away as Edinburgh and Cornwall, by car, train and bus, the crowd had started marching from the Embankment at 11.30am – and tail-enders such as Graham Scrivener and Flora Wilson, both Hackney teachers, only reached the park gates at five, long after most marchers had started streaming home.
  • (13) He just said he was going to hurt a bunch of people” at the college of Charleston, Scriven told AP.
  • (14) Liberal Democrat spokesman Lord Scriven said Labour had a shameful record on midwifery when in government, overseeing a critical shortage of staff.
  • (15) Richard Scrivener, a former assistant strength and conditioning coach at Northampton Saints rugby club, says that while the benefits are clear, Tabatas are an addition, not a replacement, to a favoured sport or training method.
  • (16) David Scriven is contemplating a move from the home where he and his wife brought up six children.
  • (17) "With the financial sector shrouded in secrecy, it will be very hard to do anything more than estimate the true extent of involvement that UK financial and investment institutions have in fossil fuel projects in places such as Indonesia ," said Alex Scrivener, author of the WDM report.
  • (18) But Scriven and another friend, Joey Meek, were concerned enough to go out to Roof’s car and retrieve his .45-caliber handgun, hiding it in an air-conditioning vent of a mobile home until they all sobered up.
  • (19) Another leading QC, Anthony Scrivener, called Mr Carman "simply the best cross-examiner in the business".
  • (20) Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener," describing in telling detail the response of a sympathetic lawyer to profound and pervasive negativism in his legal scribe, is discussed as a literary analogy to the analyst-analysand dyad.