English Dictionary

scribe

/skɹaɪb/

noun

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

The scribe meticulously transcribed the ancient text.

意味（1）

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

意味（2）

A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

意味（3）

(informal) A journalist.

意味（4）

(archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

意味（5）

A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.