scribe — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

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   [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

   Pay records, supply logs, discharge certificates: all needed scribes, and those who could write might have found themselves being spared the worst of the drudgery.

2. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.

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   The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

3. A journalist.

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   • Informal

4. A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

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   • Archaic

5. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Verb

1. To write.

2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

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   There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.

   he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard

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   There was the curious fascination expressed regarding the triangular relationship between the poor white, the black, and the hookworm — suggesting a desire to differentiate and segregate the poor white body from that of the black and to scribe more boldly what was often, for the poorest people of the South, a very thin line.

3. To record, as a scribe.

4. To write or draw with a scribe.

5. To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.

6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Noun

1. informal terms for journalists

   Synonyms

   scribbler

   Broader terms

   journalist

2. someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

   Synonyms

   copyistscrivener

   Broader terms

   employee

3. a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut

   Synonyms

   scriberscratch awl

   Broader terms

   awl

Verb

1. score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

   Broader terms

   scorenockmark