Scribe

[skraɪb]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) informal terms for journalists.

(noun.) French playwright (1791-1861).

(verb.) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking.

吉塞尔編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

編輯:拉维恩

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Writer, penman, chirographer, chirographist, amanuensis, copyist, scrivener.[2]. Clerk, secretary, notary.

錄入:伦纳德

解釋/意思:

n. a writer: a public or official writer: a clerk amanuensis secretary: (B.) an expounder and teacher of the Mosaic and traditional law: a pointed instrument to mark lines on wood &c.—v.t. to write: to record: to mark.—adjs. Scrī′bable capable of being written upon; Scribā′cious given to writing.—n. Scribā′ciousness.—adj. Scrī′bal pertaining to a scribe.—ns. Scrī′bing; Scrī′bing-com′pass an instrument used in saddlery and cooper-work; Scrī′bism.

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