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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
script
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exam essay/script (=that someone has written during an exam)
▪ I’ve brought in some old exam scripts for us to look at.
an examination script (=everything that someone writes in an examination)
▪ I've just finished marking 200 examination scripts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cursive
▪ Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition.
▪ Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.
▪ The recognition of cursive script is much more difficult because several characters can be written with a single stroke.
▪ Details of the particular on-line cursive script recogniser and the interface to further levels of processing were given.
▪ The word may also be applied to the small cursive script developed from the uncial.
▪ The methods described and implemented are not only applicable to on-line cursive script recognition.
▪ The letters were not joined together, as occurred in cursive scripts.
original
▪ But Aliens manages to capture at least some of the tension from the original script.
▪ The original script never mentioned the name Cyrex.
■ NOUN
examination
▪ Test yourself with the following passage, which contains misspelt words taken from examination scripts.
▪ This visit will take place subsequent to moderators receiving and moderating the examination scripts.
▪ B How many examination scripts have you marked?
▪ C Who marked these 200 examination scripts?
▪ Candidates shall not have access to examination scripts.
film
▪ He lives in South Stoke in Oxfordshire and is is working flat out on a film script.
▪ Despite being a western production, the film script was written by the east-west team of Peter Timm and Reinhard Kloos.
movie
▪ This isn't a movie script, but it easily could be.
recognition
▪ Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition.
▪ For the reasons explained above, the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years.
▪ Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.
▪ However, parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system.
▪ Handwriting, or script recognition is a difficult task due to the inherent ambiguity within the input.
▪ This principle could be applied to the current script recognition system to make best use of all available information.
■ VERB
based
▪ Though he used contemporary language, he based his script very closely on the original.
follow
▪ He had followed his script, fulfilled his stereotyped purpose, but never really acted of his own accord.
▪ It follows a chronological script, interspersing documentary footage with the acted narrative.
▪ He stands with his mouth slightly open, trying to follow the script.
▪ Pros: Boat drivers follow a loose script allowing them to joke with passengers nearly as much as they want.
▪ What the historical record shows is that people are not insects blindly following some genetic script.
prepare
▪ They have to address an unseen audience through the camera and they can prepare a script for their talk.
▪ If you have done a detailed evaluation interview, you can prepare initial scripts for the scenes from that information.
▪ In preparing the script, talk to them about writing for speaking.
read
▪ He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal.
▪ News anchors, for example, would read radio scripts before the camera.
▪ He'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce's published material.
▪ He found her reading a script and drinking a cup of coffee.
▪ Existence with Paul was what she must look forward to; reading his scripts, bearing his children.
▪ Did anyone read the script before they started shooting it?
▪ When I read the script, I thought he was a sentient man, a staunch fella.
▪ He hadn't read the script, wasn't acting as she had envisaged.
send
▪ I do get a bit sick of the way they keep sending me scripts to make funny.
▪ But Mr Weinberg was persistent, and would send a script practically every week.
shoot
▪ The shooting script is, for Fellini, more of a necessity of production than an artistic requirement.
▪ This definition fits the description of a Fellini shooting script only in part, however.
▪ There is almost no reference in the shooting script to the manner in which a scene will be shot.
work
▪ When you worked on the script with Anne-Louise Trividic, did you already visualise how the film would turn out?
▪ I went to my house in Madrid with Nicolas Roeg, the lighting cameraman, and we worked on rewriting the script.
▪ As he worked on his script he kept himself to himself.
▪ When working with unconnected script, the samples of writing studied often had unnaturally spaced characters and words.
▪ I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script.
write
▪ Wayans wrote the script, executive produced it, and stars in it.
▪ She did have a few copies of a written script and would be pleased to give me one.
▪ If I had written the script, the movie would be 25 hours long.
▪ And I was writing scripts for local stars, drinking with them.
▪ Rather than writing a script, he collaborates with actors to produce extensive backgrounds for characters.
▪ The need for writing complex systems management scripts is supposedly eliminated.
▪ I wrote the scripts, he did the talking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He read the announcement from a prepared script.
▪ The letter was written in beautiful 18th-century script.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each sample of script collected begins with an optional header.
▪ He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal.
▪ Jean-Jacques Annaud directs a script by Becky Johnston.
▪ Outside the script departments of a few studios, too many producers have taken lazy routes to their scripts.
▪ That was the thing that I found exciting about the script.
▪ The script, full of rollicking combinations, was co-written by the master of sports comedies, Ron Shelton.
▪ The initial script, she says, was good.
▪ Tom Hanks delivers Oscar-worthy work in Robert Zemeckis' latest; the editing and script, unfortunately, do not.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Script

Script \Script\, n. [OE. scrit, L. scriptum something written, fr. scribere, scriptum to write: cf. OF. escript, escrit, F.

  1. A writing; a written document. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  2. (Print.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

  3. (Law) An original instrument or document.

  4. Written characters; style of writing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
script

late 14c., "something written," earlier scrite (c.1300), from Old French escrit "piece of writing, written paper; credit note, IOU; deed, bond" (Modern French écrit) from Latin scriptum "a writing, book; law; line, mark," noun use of neuter past participle of scribere "to write," from PIE *skribh- "to cut, separate, sift" (cognates: Greek skariphasthai "to scratch an outline, sketch," Lettish skripat "scratch, write," Old Norse hrifa "scratch"), from root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)) on the notion of carving marks in stone, wood, etc.\n

\nMeaning "handwriting" is recorded from 1860. Theatrical use, short for manuscript, is attested from 1884. The importance of Rome to the spread of civilization in Europe is attested by the fact that the word for "write" in Celtic and Germanic (as well as Romanic) languages derives from scribere (French écrire, Irish scriobhaim, Welsh ysgrifennu, German schreiben). The cognate Old English scrifan means "to allot, assign, decree" (see shrive; also compare Old Norse skript "penance") and Modern English uses write (v.) to express this action.

script

"adapt (a work) for broadcasting or film," 1935, from script (n.). Related: Scripted; scripting.\n

Wiktionary
script

n. 1 (context countable obsolete English) A writing; a written document. 2 written characters; style of writing. 3 (context typography English) type made in imitation of handwriting. 4 (context countable legal English) An original instrument or document. 5 (context countable English) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself. 6 (context computing English) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence. 7 (context linguistics English) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages. 8 An abbreviation for a prescription. vb. (context transitive English) To make or write a script.

WordNet
script
  1. n. a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance [syn: book, playscript]

  2. something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" [syn: handwriting, hand]

  3. a particular orthography or writing system

script

v. write a script for; "The playwright scripted the movie"

Wikipedia
Script

Script may refer to:

Script (comics)

A script is a document describing the narrative and dialogue of a comic book in detail. It is the comic book equivalent of a television program teleplay or a film screenplay.

In comics, a script may be preceded by a plot outline, and is almost always followed by page sketches, drawn by a comics artist and inked, succeeded by the coloring and lettering stages. There are no prescribed forms of comic scripts, but there are two dominant styles in the mainstream comics industry, the full script (commonly known as " DC style") and the plot script (or " Marvel style").

SCRIPT (markup)

SCRIPT, any of a series of text markup languages starting with Script under Control Program-67/Cambridge Monitor System (CP-67/CMS) and Script/370 under Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370); the current version, SCRIPT/VS, is part of IBM's Document Composition Facility (DCF) for IBM z/VM and z/OS systems. SCRIPT was developed for CP-67/CMS by Stuart Madnick at MIT, succeeding CTSS RUNOFF.

SCRIPT is a procedural markup language. Inline commands called control words, indicated by a period in the first column of a logical line, describe the desired appearance of the formatted text. SCRIPT originally provided a 2PASS option to allow text to refer to variables defined later in the text, but subsequent versions allowed more than two passes.

SCRIPT (AHRC Centre)

SCRIPT is a research centre located at the School of Law in the University of Edinburgh dedicated to studying intellectual property and technology law. SCRIPT used to be known as the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. The centre is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Script (Unix)

The script command is a Unix utility that records a terminal session. The scriptreplay command offers a replay function to script. The session is captured in file name typescript by default; to specify a different filename follow the script command with a space and the filename as such: script recorded_session.

The ttyrec program provides the same kind of functionality and offers several bindings.

Recorded shell sessions can be shared using online services. The advantage of sessions recorded in this format from the usual screencasts is that shell instructions can be easily copy/pasted from the player screen.

SCRIPT (medicine)

SCRIPT is a standard promulgated by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) for the electronically transmitted medical prescriptions in the United States.

Script (Unicode)

In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support one and only one writing system and language, for example, Armenian. Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages. Some languages make use of multiple alternate writing systems, thus also use several scripts. In Turkish, the Arabic script was used before the 20th century, but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century. For a list of languages supported by each script see the list of languages by writing system. More or less complementary to scripts are symbols and Unicode control characters.

The unified diacritical characters and unified punctuation characters frequently have the "common" or "inherited" script property. However, the individual scripts often have their own punctuation and diacritics. So many scripts include not only letters, but also diacritic and other marks, punctuation, numerals and even their own idiosyncratic symbols and space characters.

Unicode 9.0 defines 135 separate scripts, including 84 modern scripts and 51 ancient or historic scripts. More scripts are in the process for encoding or have been tentatively allocated for encoding in roadmaps.

Usage examples of "script".

Moorhouse and Ambler and the sheriff all had the same script and the lines were terrible.

And, thanks to your script on Autocue, who I just introduced as my next guest.

He already thinks I wrote that vulgar grotesque perversion he saw up there on the screen now when he reads this, if he had any doubts and he reads this where they say I wrote the original script for this spectacularly successful motion picture exploiting madness in the family did you see that?

Father got up and walked out after that great battle scene when that ghostly spectre appeared standing there brooding over those two corpses in the Bloody Lane that was supposed to be Grandfather and when I said maybe that was why Father was upset with me for exploiting the family and Grandfather if he thought I wrote the script like it said in the newspaper and I asked him to read my last act he said he.

Despite her difficulties with the script and the French language, she found herself becoming absorbed in the story Menzies had briefly touched on in the tomb the day before.

Willingham has written the scripts for a number of popular comic book series including The Elementals, Ironwood, and a favorite of mine, Coventry, as well as one shots such as Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of Dream and too many others to mention.

Kentish downs there--though if he was not actor, he would behold, through the paneless windows, nothing but Toni Titmus, in dirty linen overalls, sitting on a kitchen chair in front of a melancholy pile of furniture all on end, humped up over the play script, and passionately attacking gum.

He cleared the holographic panes of their script and graphs, giving the intelligence operative an expectant glance through the transparent glass.

It was vox populi in its purest yet most variegate form and each of those scripts was accompanied with a check: ten dollars then for the magazine pieces, thirty-five dollars for the novels.

More than one hundred crew members and thirty actors and extras tested lights, oiled dollies, adjusted hydraulic lifts, plugged in cables, mounted film magazines, prefocused cameras, took light readings, positioned microphones and read and reread scripts.

But she scripted the whole thing, allowing the reporters to read prescreened questions, to which Titus read prepared answers.

Ellie arrived, including virtually all of the writers at the con, pros and wannabees, hoping to hear something that might aid them in cadging a scripting assignment.

The three of them ransacked the room, but no small, round box with the Campion name scrawled on it in elegant pink script could be found.

I deciphered the Easter Island script within forty-two minutes after I had completed scansion of the existing inscriptions, both above ground and buried, and including one tablet incorporated in a temple in Ceylon.

On each was engraved a long screed in an incredibly tiny and intricate script.