SCRIPT


Meaning of SCRIPT in English

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.

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