noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exam essay/script (= that someone has written during an exam )
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I’ve brought in some old exam scripts for us to look at.
an examination script (= everything that someone writes in an examination )
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I've just finished marking 200 examination scripts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cursive
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Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition.
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Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.
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The recognition of cursive script is much more difficult because several characters can be written with a single stroke.
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Details of the particular on-line cursive script recogniser and the interface to further levels of processing were given.
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The word may also be applied to the small cursive script developed from the uncial.
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The methods described and implemented are not only applicable to on-line cursive script recognition.
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The letters were not joined together, as occurred in cursive scripts .
original
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But Aliens manages to capture at least some of the tension from the original script .
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The original script never mentioned the name Cyrex.
■ NOUN
examination
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Test yourself with the following passage, which contains misspelt words taken from examination scripts .
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This visit will take place subsequent to moderators receiving and moderating the examination scripts .
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B How many examination scripts have you marked?
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C Who marked these 200 examination scripts ?
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Candidates shall not have access to examination scripts .
film
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He lives in South Stoke in Oxfordshire and is is working flat out on a film script .
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Despite being a western production, the film script was written by the east-west team of Peter Timm and Reinhard Kloos.
movie
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This isn't a movie script , but it easily could be.
recognition
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Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition .
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For the reasons explained above, the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years.
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Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.
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However, parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system.
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Handwriting, or script recognition is a difficult task due to the inherent ambiguity within the input.
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This principle could be applied to the current script recognition system to make best use of all available information.
■ VERB
based
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Though he used contemporary language, he based his script very closely on the original.
follow
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He had followed his script , fulfilled his stereotyped purpose, but never really acted of his own accord.
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It follows a chronological script , interspersing documentary footage with the acted narrative.
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He stands with his mouth slightly open, trying to follow the script .
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Pros: Boat drivers follow a loose script allowing them to joke with passengers nearly as much as they want.
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What the historical record shows is that people are not insects blindly following some genetic script .
prepare
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They have to address an unseen audience through the camera and they can prepare a script for their talk.
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If you have done a detailed evaluation interview, you can prepare initial scripts for the scenes from that information.
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In preparing the script , talk to them about writing for speaking.
read
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He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal.
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News anchors, for example, would read radio scripts before the camera.
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He'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce's published material.
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He found her reading a script and drinking a cup of coffee.
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Existence with Paul was what she must look forward to; reading his scripts , bearing his children.
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Did anyone read the script before they started shooting it?
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When I read the script , I thought he was a sentient man, a staunch fella.
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He hadn't read the script , wasn't acting as she had envisaged.
send
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I do get a bit sick of the way they keep sending me scripts to make funny.
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But Mr Weinberg was persistent, and would send a script practically every week.
shoot
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The shooting script is, for Fellini, more of a necessity of production than an artistic requirement.
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This definition fits the description of a Fellini shooting script only in part, however.
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There is almost no reference in the shooting script to the manner in which a scene will be shot.
work
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When you worked on the script with Anne-Louise Trividic, did you already visualise how the film would turn out?
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I went to my house in Madrid with Nicolas Roeg, the lighting cameraman, and we worked on rewriting the script .
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As he worked on his script he kept himself to himself.
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When working with unconnected script , the samples of writing studied often had unnaturally spaced characters and words.
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I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script .
write
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Wayans wrote the script , executive produced it, and stars in it.
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She did have a few copies of a written script and would be pleased to give me one.
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If I had written the script , the movie would be 25 hours long.
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And I was writing scripts for local stars, drinking with them.
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Rather than writing a script , he collaborates with actors to produce extensive backgrounds for characters.
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The need for writing complex systems management scripts is supposedly eliminated.
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I wrote the scripts , he did the talking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He read the announcement from a prepared script .
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The letter was written in beautiful 18th-century script .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each sample of script collected begins with an optional header.
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He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud directs a script by Becky Johnston.
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Outside the script departments of a few studios, too many producers have taken lazy routes to their scripts.
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That was the thing that I found exciting about the script .
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The script , full of rollicking combinations, was co-written by the master of sports comedies, Ron Shelton.
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The initial script , she says, was good.
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Tom Hanks delivers Oscar-worthy work in Robert Zemeckis' latest; the editing and script , unfortunately, do not.