typescript

[ tahyp-skript ]

noun

1. a typewritten copy of a literary composition, document, or the like, especially as prepared for a printer.
2. typewritten matter, as distinguished from handwritten or printed matter.

typescript

/ ˈtaɪpˌskrɪpt /

noun

1. a typed copy of a document, literary script, etc
2. any typewritten material

Word History and Origins

Origin of typescript¹

1890–95, Americanism; type + script (on the model of manuscript )

Example Sentences

Two other typescripts are known to be in existence, one in France's national library and another in the Harry Ransom Center in Texas.

From BBC

There are typescripts and drafts of all his published books, from “V.”

From New York Times

Initially conceived while in pandemic-period isolation, the D.C. artist’s new series employs densely overlapping typescripts as backdrops for simple, curved geometric forms drawn in charcoal.

From Washington Post

The archive includes two partial typescripts for his 1932 nonfiction work about bullfighting, “Death in the Afternoon.”

From New York Times

In the late 1950s, as America welcomed Jack Kerouac’s 120 feet of spontaneous typescript, a different kind of scroll was underway on the West Coast.

From New York Times

Related Words

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