ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
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(noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
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description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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(noun) the act of describing something | - |
(noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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(noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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(noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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indescribability | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribableness |
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indescribableness | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribability |
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inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
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(noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
(noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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(noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
nondescript | (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
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playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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(noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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prescription | (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
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(noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
(noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
(noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
proscription | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: banishment |
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(noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, prohibition |
rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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(noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
(noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
(noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
scribble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scrabble |
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(noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scrawl |
scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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(noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |
scribe | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scriber |
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(noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribbler |
(noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scrivener |
scriber | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scribe |
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scrim | (noun) a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater | - |
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scrimmage | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, melee |
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(noun) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads | - |
scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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scrimshaw | (noun) a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers | - |
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scrip | (noun) a certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency | - |
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script | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, playscript |
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(noun) a particular orthography or writing system | - |
(noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, handwriting |
scriptorium | (noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts | - |
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scripture | (noun) any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group | Synonyms: sacred scripture |
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scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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scrivener | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scribe |
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subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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(noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
(noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
subscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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subscription | (noun) a pledged contribution | - |
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(noun) the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document) | - |
(noun) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name | - |
(noun) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | - |
superscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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superscription | (noun) the activity of superscribing | - |
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(noun) an inscription written above something else | - |
transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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(noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
(noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
(noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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(noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
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transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
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(noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
(noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
(noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
(noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
typescript | (noun) typewritten matter especially a typewritten copy of a manuscript | - |
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