SCRIPT


Meaning of SCRIPT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ skrɪpt ]

( scripts, scripting, scripted)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

The script of a play, film, or television programme is the written version of it.

Jenny’s writing a film script.

N-COUNT

2.

The person who scripts a film or a radio or television play writes it.

...James Cameron, who scripted and directed both films.

VERB : V n

3.

You can refer to a particular system of writing as a particular script .

...a text in the Malay language but written in Arabic script.

N-VAR : usu adj N

4.

If you say that something which has happened is not in the script , or that someone has not followed the script , you mean that something has happened which was not expected or intended to happen.

Losing was not in the script...

The game plan was right. We just didn’t follow the script.

N-SING : the N , usu with brd-neg

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