script

«script» in Mova's judaism dictionary: the written words of a play, film or TV show, telling… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a script, scripts; script — handwriting); verb (script, scripts, scripted, scripting)

meaning for a pupil

1) A script is the written words of a play, film or TV show, telling actors what to say and do. tree →

2) A script is a writing system or style of handwriting, like the Latin, Cyrillic or Arabic script, or joined-up "script" handwriting. tree →

3) (computers) A script is a small program, a list of instructions for a computer. tree →

4) To script something is to write the words for it or plan it in detail. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Isaiah, God tells the prophet to write on a tablet in "common script," meaning ordinary letters anyone can read. Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah "script" is the written letters, one of the three ways God made the world: Scribe, Script and Scroll. In the primary lessons: In drama lessons pupils read scripts, learn their lines and write playscripts with stage directions. In handwriting lessons in the USA, "script" or "cursive" means joined-up writing. In computing, children may write scripts in Scratch. In stories and real life, "following the script" means doing what was planned. Phrases: "learn the script", "film script", "write a script", "go off script", "scripted".

examples

• In Tomus Primus of ** Artis Cabalisticae hoc est reconditae theologiae et philosophise script orum." Basileae 1587, is found ** Liber de Creatione Cabalistinis, Hebraice Sepher Jezira ; Authore Abrahamo. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script, and Scroll. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• "Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, the Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script and Scroll." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• And the LORD said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth; (Prophets ISA.8.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• I learned my lines from the script for the school play. tree →
• The script says, "Enter the giant, stage left." tree →
• Arabic script is written from right to left. tree →
• In Scratch, we built a script to make the cat dance. tree →
• The interview felt scripted, not natural. tree →
• The comedian went off script and made everyone laugh. tree →
• We wrote a script for our own puppet show. tree →
• The very letters that have spread through all Europe except Russia, are to be traced to the script of these Irish monks: why not certain folk-tales? tree →

note

Countable: a script, scripts. A person who writes film scripts is a scriptwriter or screenwriter. "Scripture" (holy writing, like the Bible) comes from the same old word for "writing". A playscript has character names on the left and stage directions in brackets.

In the corpora

• A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented.
• It sounded like a script he'd practised.
• Most people don't remember ordinary events to the exact minute; a story that is too perfect can be a practised script.
• The other team was scripted to win!" His brother, watching: "Rigged?
• The script is called 'defend'." Losing is not proof of cheating.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «script» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.