script

«script» in Mova's school 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 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

• 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.