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Manuscript and Cursive Definitions

Manuscript

A handwritten book, poem, or other document, or a collection of such handwritten documents bound together
The contents of the manuscript include a romance and a saint's life.

Cursive

Having the successive letters joined together
Cursive writing.
A cursive style of type.

Manuscript

A version of a book, article, or other work before being published or prepared for publication
The author submitted the manuscript as a text file.

Cursive

A cursive character or letter.

Manuscript

Handwriting, especially in contrast to print
Her last poems were left in manuscript.
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Cursive

A manuscript written in cursive characters.

Manuscript

Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

Cursive

(Printing) A type style that imitates handwriting.

Manuscript

A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

Cursive

Running; flowing.
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Manuscript

A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

Cursive

(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.

Manuscript

Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.

Cursive

(grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).

Manuscript

An original literary or musical composition written by the author, formerly with the hand, now usually by typewriter or word processor. It is contrasted with a printed copy.

Cursive

(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.

Manuscript

Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript.

Cursive

(countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.

Manuscript

The form of a literary work submitted for publication

Cursive

(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.

Manuscript

Handwritten book or document

Cursive

Running; flowing.

Cursive

A character used in cursive writing.

Cursive

A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; - opposed to uncial.

Cursive

Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper

Cursive

Having successive letter joined together;
Cursive script

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