script

Word family

script /skrɪpt/ S3 noun

1 [countableC]AM the written form of a speech, play, film etc 〔演講的〕原稿，講稿；〔戲劇、電影等的〕劇本 → screenplay

They write all their own scripts.

他們所有的劇本都是自己寫的。

a film script

電影劇本

2 [countableC, uncountableU]SLA the set of letters that are used in writing a language 〔一種語言的〕全套字母，字母表

Arabic script

阿拉伯語字母表

3. [countableC] British EnglishBrESEEXAM/TEST a piece of work that a student writes in an examination 〔考生的〕筆試答卷

4 [singular, uncountableU] formalWRITE writing done by hand 筆迹，手迹 SYN handwriting

a diary entry written in neat black script

用工整的黑色字寫下的一則日記

Examples from the Corpus

script• Jean-Jacques Annaud directs a script by Becky Johnston.• Tom Hanks delivers Oscar-worthy work in Robert Zemeckis' latest; the editing and script, unfortunately, do not.• The letter was written in beautiful 18th-century script.• The initial script, she says, was good.• He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal.• Each sample of script collected begins with an optional header.• He read the announcement from a prepared script.• That was the thing that I found exciting about the script.• Outside the script departments of a few studios, too many producers have taken lazy routes to their scripts.• The script, full of rollicking combinations, was co-written by the master of sports comedies, Ron Shelton.

From Longman Business Dictionary

scriptscript /skrɪpt/ noun [countableC]

computing a simple program or series of instructions for a computer, or the language that is used to write these

A Windows logon script will assign a printer to a computer.

Origin script

(1300-1400) Latin scriptum “something written”, from scribere; → SCRIBE

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