'Scribe' definitions:
Definition of 'Scribe'
(from WordNet)
noun
French playwright (1791-1861) [syn: Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe]
noun
noun
Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts [syn: copyist, scribe, scrivener]
noun
A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut [syn: scriber, scribe, scratch awl]
verb
Score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
Definition of 'Scribe'
From: GCIDE
- Scribe \Scribe\ (skr[imac]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribed (skr[imac]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribing.]
- 1. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Carp.) 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 scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron. [1913 Webster]
- Scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scribe'
From: GCIDE
- Scribe \Scribe\, v. i. To make a mark. [1913 Webster]
- With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. --A. M. Mayer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scribe'
From: GCIDE
- Scribe \Scribe\ (skr[imac]b), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. ska`rifos a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. Ascribe, Describe, Script, Scrivener, Scrutoire.]
- 1. One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Jewish Hist.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scribe'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accountant,
- advertising writer,
- amanuensis,
- annalist,
- archivist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- baal kore,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bookkeeper,
- calligrapher,
- cantor,
- carve,
- chase,
- chief rabbi,
- chirographer,
- clerk,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copier,
- copy,
- copy out,
- copyist,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- documentalist,
- draft,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- dramaturge,
- draw up,
- edit,
- editor,
- enchase,
- encyclopedist,
- enface,
- engrave,
- engraver,
- engross,
- essayist,
- etch,
- filing clerk,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- gossip columnist,
- grave,
- hack,
- high priest,
- humorist,
- incise,
- indite,
- inditer,
- ink spiller,
- inkslinger,
- inscribe,
- journalist,
- kohen,
- letterer,
- Levite,
- librarian,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- make a recension,
- make out,
- man of letters,
- mark,
- marker,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- notary,
- notary public,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- paragraphist,
- pen,
- pencil,
- pencil driver,
- penman,
- penner,
- penny-a-liner,
- penwoman,
- playwright,
- poet,
- priest,
- prose writer,
- prothonotary,
- push the pen,
- put in writing,
- rabbi,
- rabbin,
- recense,
- record,
- record clerk,
- recorder,
- recording secretary,
- recordist,
- register,
- registrar,
- reporter,
- reviewer,
- revise,
- rewrite,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- score,
- scorekeeper,
- scorer,
- scratch,
- scribbler,
- scriptwriter,
- scrive,
- scrivener,
- scroll,
- secretary,
- short-story writer,
- sob sister,
- spill ink,
- spoil paper,
- stenographer,
- stonecutter,
- storyteller,
- superscribe,
- technical writer,
- timekeeper,
- trace,
- transcribe,
- transcriber,
- type,
- word painter,
- word-slinger,
- wordsmith,
- write,
- write down,
- write out,
- writer