What's the difference between scribe and writer?

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.

Writer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
  • (n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
  • (n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (2) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
  • (3) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (4) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (5) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • (6) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (7) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (8) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
  • (9) From a study bearing upon 26 patients suffering from a cerebral circulatory insufficiency induced by a stenosis or a thrombosis, the writers analyse the part played by Hyperbare Oxygen in the neurologic evolution.
  • (10) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
  • (11) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
  • (12) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
  • (13) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
  • (14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (15) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
  • (16) "Obviously [writers in translation] have a disadvantage and there's no sense pretending they don't, of being read in translation," said Gekoski.
  • (17) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
  • (18) Do you feel you were thought of at one stage as a political writer, at a very early stage?
  • (19) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
  • (20) This affected the outcome of the study so that the differences of the two groups of patients were not as significant as perceived by the writer.