Dictionary Entry
scribe
scribe is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
- 2noun
A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
- 3transitive verb
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
- 6intransitive verb
To make a mark.
- 7noun
a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
Synonyms
- 8noun
someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- 9noun
informal terms for journalists
- 10noun
French playwright (1791-1861)
- 11verb
score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
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