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| Main Entry: | script |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handwriting |
| Synonyms: | chirography, fist, hand, penmanship, writing, calligraphy, characters, letters, longhand |
| Main Entry: | script |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story for a performance |
| Synonyms: | article, book, copy, dialogue, manuscript, scenario, text, words, libretto, lines, playbook, typescript |
| Main Entry: | dialogue/dialog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk, exchange of ideas |
| Synonyms: | chat, colloquy, communication, conference, conversation, converse, discourse, discussion, parlance, parley, powwow, repartee, script, small talk*, confab, confabulation, duologue, interlocution, lines, remarks, sides |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | document |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
| Synonyms: | archive, certificate, credentials, deed, diary, evidence, form, instrument, language, paper, record, report, script, testimony, token, pages |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | handwriting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the way a person writes |
| Synonyms: | chirography, hand, manuscript, mark, scratching, scrawl, scribble, script, style, writing, autography, calligraphy, chicken scratch, ductus, griffonage, hieroglyphics, longhand, manuscription, pencraft, penscript, scription, scrivenery, scrivening |
| Main Entry: | notation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written remarks |
| Synonyms: | chit, code, memorandum, note, noting, record, representation, script, system, characters, documentation, figures, jotting, memo, signs, symbols |
| Main Entry: | treatise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written study of a subject |
| Synonyms: | argument, book, commentary, composition, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, exposition, memoir, monograph, pamphlet, paper, review, script, thesis, tract, work, writing, tractate |
| Main Entry: | dialogue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk |
| Synonyms: | chat, colloquy, communication, conference, conversation, converse, discourse, discussion, exchange, flap, parlance, parley, powwow, rap, repartee, script, small talk, confab, confabulation, dialog, duologue, interlocution, lines, rap session, remarks, sides |
| Antonyms: | monologue, soliloquy |
| Main Entry: | picture writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expression by pictures |
| Synonyms: | script, cuneal writing, cuneiform, curiology, hieroglyphics, ideography, phonographic writing, runes, symbolical writing, symbology |
| Main Entry: | record |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of event or proceedings |
| Synonyms: | almanac, annals, archive, archives, chronicle, comic book, diary, directory, document, entry, evidence, file, history, inscription, jacket, journal, legend, log, manuscript, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, monument, note, register, remembrance, report, script, scroll, story, testimony, trace, track record*, transcript, witness, writing, documentation, memo, paper trail, registry, swindle sheet, transcription, written material |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printing on paper |
| Synonyms: | autograph, chirography, hand, handwriting, print, scrawl, scribble, script, calligraphy, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, longhand, manuscription, shorthand |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create writing, artwork, or music |
| Synonyms: | author, cast, conceive, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, ghost*, imagine, indite, invent, knock off*, knock out*, make up, orchestrate, originate, pen, produce, put down, score, scribble, script, set up, time, turn out, whip up*, write, bang out, clef, coin a phrase, comp, fudge together, ghostwrite, note down, poetize, push pencil, put pen to paper, set type |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | paper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thesis, article |
| Synonyms: | analysis, assignment, composition, critique, dissertation, essay, examination, monograph, report, script, study, theme, treatise |
| Main Entry: | hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handwriting |
| Synonyms: | chirography, script, calligraphy, longhand |
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