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The noun scribe has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

• 1. Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe -- (French playwright (1791-1861))
• 2. scribe, scribbler, penman -- (informal terms for journalists)
• 3. copyist, scribe, scrivener -- (someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts)
• 4. scriber, scribe, scratch awl -- (a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut)

The verb scribe has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)

• 1. (3) scribe -- (score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking)

Sense 3

Sense 1

Sense 2

• journalist -- (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

Sense 3

• employee -- (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Sense 4

• awl -- (a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes)

Sense 4

• scribe -- (score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking)

Sense 1

• dramatist, playwright -- (someone who writes plays)
  HAS INSTANCE=> Aeschylus -- (Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Albee, Edward Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen -- (United States dramatist (1928-))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Anderson, Maxwell Anderson -- (United States dramatist (1888-1959))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Anouilh, Jean Anouilh -- (French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Aristophanes -- (an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Barrie, James Barrie, J. M. Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, Sir James Matthew Barrie -- (Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Beaumont, Francis Beaumont -- (English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Beckett, Samuel Beckett -- (a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Brecht, Bertolt Brecht -- (German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca -- (Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Capek, Karel Capek -- (Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- (Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Chekhov, Chekov, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekov -- (Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Congreve, William Congreve -- (English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Corneille, Pierre Corneille -- (French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward -- (English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Crouse, Russel Crouse -- (United States playwright (1893-1966))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac -- (a French soldier and dramatist remembered chiefly for fighting many duels (often over the size of his nose); was immortalized in 1897 in a play by Edmond Rostand (1619-1655))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Dekker, Decker, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Decker -- (English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Dryden, John Dryden -- (the outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot -- (British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Euripides -- (one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Fletcher, John Fletcher -- (prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Fry, Christopher Fry -- (English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Fugard, Athol Fugard -- (South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca -- (Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Genet, Jean Genet -- (French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide -- (French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Giraudoux, Jean Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux -- (French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- (German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Goldoni, Carlo Goldoni -- (prolific Italian dramatist (1707-1793))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker -- (English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Hart, Moss Hart -- (United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Havel, Vaclav Havel -- (Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Hebbel, Friedrich Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Hebbel -- (German dramatist (1813-1863))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Hellman, Lillian Hellman -- (United States playwright; her plays were often indictments of injustice (1905-1984))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-Marie Hugo -- (French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Johan Ibsen -- (realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Inge, William Inge -- (United States playwright (1913-1973))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Ionesco, Eugene Ionesco -- (French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Jonson, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jonson -- (English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Kaufman, George S. Kaufman, George Simon Kaufman -- (United States playwright who collaborated with many other writers including Moss Hart (1889-1961))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist -- (German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Kyd, Kid, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Kid -- (English dramatist (1558-1594))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- (German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Lindsay, Howard Lindsay -- (United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Luce, Clare Booth Luce -- (United States playwright and public official (1902-1987))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Maeterlinck, Count Maurice Maeterlinck -- (Belgian playwright (1862-1949))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Mamet, David Mamet -- (United States playwright (born in 1947))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe -- (English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Marstan, John Marstan -- (English playwright (1575-1634))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Menander -- (comic dramatist of ancient Greece (342-292 BC))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Middleton, Thomas Middleton -- (English playwright and pamphleteer (1570-1627))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Miller, Arthur Miller -- (United States playwright (1915-2005))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin -- (French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Molnar, Ferenc Molnar -- (Hungarian playwright (1878-1952))
  HAS INSTANCE=> O'Casey, Sean O'Casey -- (Irish playwright (1880-1964))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Odets, Clifford Odets -- (United States playwright (1906-1963))
  HAS INSTANCE=> O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill -- (United States playwright (1888-1953))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Osborne, John Osborne, John James Osborne -- (English playwright (1929-1994))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Pinter, Harold Pinter -- (English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Pirandello, Luigi Pirandello -- (Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Pitt, George Pitt, George Dibdin Pitt, George Dibdin-Pitt -- (a British playwright who created the fictional character Sweeney Todd (1799-1855))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Plautus, Titus Maccius Plautus -- (comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine -- (French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Rattigan, Terence Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan -- (British playwright (1911-1977))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein -- (United States playwright (1892-1967))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Robinson, Lennox Robinson, Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson -- (Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Rostand, Edmond Rostand -- (French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre -- (French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe -- (French playwright (1791-1861))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- (Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Shakspere, William Shakspere, Bard of Avon -- (English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw -- (British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Shepard, Sam Shepard -- (United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- (Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Sherwood, Robert Emmet Sherwood -- (United States playwright (1896-1955))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Simon, Neil Simon, Marvin Neil Simon -- (United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Sophocles -- (one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Sir Tom Stoppard, Thomas Straussler -- (British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Strindberg, August Strindberg, Johan August Strindberg -- (Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Synge, J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge, Edmund John Millington Synge -- (Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Terence, Publius Terentius Afer -- (dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Tirso de Molina, Gabriel Tellez -- (Spanish dramatist who wrote the first dramatic treatment of the legend of Don Juan (1571-1648))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Ustinov, Sir Peter Ustinov, Peter Alexander Ustinov -- (British actor and playwright (1921-2004))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Vega, Lope de Vega, Lope Felix de Vega Carpio -- (prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Webster, John Webster -- (English playwright (1580-1625))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde -- (Irish writer and wit (1854-1900))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder -- (United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Williams, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Lanier Williams -- (United States playwright (1911-1983))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Wycherley, William Wycherley -- (English playwright noted for his humorous and satirical plays (1640-1716))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Yeats, William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats -- (Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939))

Sense 2

• journalist -- (a writer for newspapers and magazines)
• broadcast journalist -- (a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television)
• columnist, editorialist -- (a journalist who writes editorials)
• correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman -- (a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media)
• gazetteer -- (a journalist who writes for a gazette)
• photojournalist -- (a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs)
• scribe, scribbler, penman -- (informal terms for journalists)
• sob sister -- (a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories)
• sports writer, sportswriter -- (a journalist who writes about sports)
  HAS INSTANCE=> Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Alfred Alistair Cooke -- (United States journalist (born in England in 1908))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Gilmer, Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer, Dorothy Dix -- (United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Greeley, Horace Greeley -- (United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest -- (United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Lippmann, Walter Lippmann -- (United States journalist (1889-1974))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Mencken, H. L. Mencken, Henry Louis Mencken -- (United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Reed, John Reed -- (United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Seaman, Elizabeth Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Nellie Bly -- (muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Shirer, William Lawrence Shirer -- (United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands -- (Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Steffens, Lincoln Steffens, Joseph Lincoln Steffens -- (United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone -- (United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989))
  HAS INSTANCE=> White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White -- (United States political journalist (1915-1986))
  HAS INSTANCE=> Woollcott, Alexander Woollcott -- (United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943))

Sense 3

• employee -- (a worker who is hired to perform a job)
• bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist -- (an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar)
• clerk -- (an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts))
• company man -- (an employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers)
• copyist, scribe, scrivener -- (someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts)
• copywriter -- (a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy)
• crewman -- (a member of a work crew)
• deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer -- (someone employed to make deliveries)
• dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant -- (someone employed to provide service in a dining room)
• dispatcher -- (employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service)
• dog catcher -- (an employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and cats)
• floater -- (an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed)
• floorwalker, shopwalker -- (an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems; ``a floorwalker is called a shopwalker in Britain'' )
• gardener -- (someone employed to work in a garden)
• gasman -- (someone employed by a gas company)
• gofer -- (an employee whose duties include running errands)
• hire -- (a newly hired employee; ``the new hires need special training'' )
• hired help -- (employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively))
• hireling, pensionary -- (a person who works only for money)
• jobholder -- (an employee who holds a regular job)
• line worker -- (an employee who works on an assembly line)
• liveryman -- (a worker in a livery stable)
• office boy -- (a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office)
• organization man -- (an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization)
• porter, Pullman porter -- (a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars))
• potboy, potman -- (a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores)
• public servant -- (someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment))
• registrar -- (a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company)
• salesperson, sales representative, sales rep -- (a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited))
• sandwichman -- (a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders)
• spotter -- (a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers))
• spotter -- (a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots)
• staff member, staffer -- (an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States))
• stagehand, stage technician -- (an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production)
• stocktaker, stock-taker -- (an employee whose job is to take inventory; ``an outside stocktaker had to be hired'' )
• sweeper -- (an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.))
• tollkeeper, tollman, tollgatherer, toll collector, toll taker, toll agent, toller -- (someone employed to collect tolls)
• trainman, railroader, railroad man, railwayman, railway man -- (an employee of a railroad)
• turncock -- (one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off)
• typist -- (someone paid to operate a typewriter)
• workman, workingman, working man, working person -- (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)

Sense 4

• awl -- (a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes)
• bradawl, pricker -- (an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws)
• scriber, scribe, scratch awl -- (a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut)

Sense 2

• journalist -- (a writer for newspapers and magazines)
• writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
• communicator -- (a person who communicates with others)
• person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; ``there was too much for one person to do'' )
  HAS PART: personality -- (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; ``their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others'' )
  HAS PART: trait -- (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)
  HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre -- (the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; ``education has for its object the formation of character'' - Herbert Spencer)
  HAS PART: thoughtfulness -- (the trait of thinking carefully before acting)
  HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness -- (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; ``he holds a position of great responsibility'' )
  HAS PART: integrity -- (moral soundness; ``he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity'' )
  HAS PART: nature -- (the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; ``it is his nature to help others'' )
  HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh -- (alternative names for the body of a human being; ``Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak'' )
• organism, being -- (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
  HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue -- (part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function)
  HAS PART: cell -- ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
  HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane -- (a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell; ``all cells have a cell membrane'' )
  HAS PART: energid, protoplast -- (a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts)
  HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol -- (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)
  HAS PART: cytoskeleton -- (a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence)
  HAS PART: microsome -- (a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA)
  HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome -- (a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions))
  HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon -- (a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction)
  HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole -- (a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis)
  HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule -- (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)
  HAS PART: achromatin -- (the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes)
  HAS PART: linin -- (an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended)
  HAS PART: chromosome -- (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; ``humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes'' )
  HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser -- (the particular part of a chromosome that is associated with a nucleolus after nuclear division)
  HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule -- (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)
  HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor -- ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; ``genes were formerly called factors'' )
  HAS PART: chromatid -- (one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis)
  HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore -- (a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape; ``the centromere is difficult to sequence'' )
  HAS PART: telomere -- (either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome; ``telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together'' )
  HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ -- (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; ``the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus'' )
  HAS PART: vacuole -- (a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell)
  HAS PART: body part -- (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
  HAS PART: corpus -- (the main part of an organ or other bodily structure)
• living thing, animate thing -- (a living (or once living) entity)
• whole, unit -- (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; ``how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit'' )
  HAS PART: part, portion -- (something less than the whole of a human artifact; ``the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together'' )
  HAS PART: section, segment -- (one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; ``a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road'' )

Sense 3

• employee -- (a worker who is hired to perform a job)
• worker -- (a person who works at a specific occupation; ``he is a good worker'' )
• person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; ``there was too much for one person to do'' )
  HAS PART: personality -- (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; ``their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others'' )
  HAS PART: trait -- (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)
  HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre -- (the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; ``education has for its object the formation of character'' - Herbert Spencer)
  HAS PART: thoughtfulness -- (the trait of thinking carefully before acting)
  HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness -- (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; ``he holds a position of great responsibility'' )
  HAS PART: integrity -- (moral soundness; ``he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity'' )
  HAS PART: nature -- (the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; ``it is his nature to help others'' )
  HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh -- (alternative names for the body of a human being; ``Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak'' )
• organism, being -- (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
  HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue -- (part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function)
  HAS PART: cell -- ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
  HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane -- (a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell; ``all cells have a cell membrane'' )
  HAS PART: energid, protoplast -- (a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts)
  HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol -- (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)
  HAS PART: cytoskeleton -- (a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence)
  HAS PART: microsome -- (a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA)
  HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome -- (a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions))
  HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon -- (a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction)
  HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole -- (a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis)
  HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule -- (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)
  HAS PART: achromatin -- (the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes)
  HAS PART: linin -- (an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended)
  HAS PART: chromosome -- (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; ``humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes'' )
  HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser -- (the particular part of a chromosome that is associated with a nucleolus after nuclear division)
  HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule -- (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)
  HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor -- ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; ``genes were formerly called factors'' )
  HAS PART: chromatid -- (one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis)
  HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore -- (a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape; ``the centromere is difficult to sequence'' )
  HAS PART: telomere -- (either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome; ``telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together'' )
  HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ -- (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; ``the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus'' )
  HAS PART: vacuole -- (a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell)
  HAS PART: body part -- (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
  HAS PART: corpus -- (the main part of an organ or other bodily structure)
• living thing, animate thing -- (a living (or once living) entity)
• whole, unit -- (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; ``how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit'' )
  HAS PART: part, portion -- (something less than the whole of a human artifact; ``the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together'' )
  HAS PART: section, segment -- (one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; ``a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road'' )

Sense 4

• awl -- (a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes)
  HAS PART: haft, helve -- (the handle of a weapon or tool)
  HAS PART: point -- (sharp end; ``he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil'' )
• hand tool -- (a tool used with workers' hands)
  HAS PART: handle, grip, handgrip, hold -- (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; ``he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip'' )
  HAS PART: shank, stem -- (cylinder forming a long narrow part of something)
• tool -- (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)
• implement -- (instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end)
• instrumentality, instrumentation -- (an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end)
• artifact, artefact -- (a man-made object taken as a whole)
• whole, unit -- (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; ``how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit'' )
  HAS PART: part, portion -- (something less than the whole of a human artifact; ``the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together'' )
  HAS PART: section, segment -- (one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; ``a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road'' )

Sense 1

• score, nock, mark -- (make small marks into the surface of; ``score the clay before firing it'' )

Sense 1

• scriber, scribe, scratch awl -- (a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut) RELATED TO->(noun) scriber#1
• scriber, scribe, scratch awl -- (a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut)

Sense 1

Sense 1

• score, nock, mark -- (make small marks into the surface of; ``score the clay before firing it'' )
• scarify -- (scratch the surface of; ``scarify seeds'' )
• scotch -- (make a small cut or score into)
• scribe -- (score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking)
• line -- (mark with lines; ``sorrow had lined his face'' )

End of WordNet output for scribe.

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