| 单词 | script |
| 释义 | script (once / 488 pages) nv A script is a written version of a play or movie. If you're auditioning for a movie, you'll get the script to practice a scene or two. Script comes from the Latin scrībĕre, meaning "to write," and all its meanings have to do with something written. Your handwriting is your script. The written version of what you're supposed to say, whether for a wedding toast or a play, is a script. And if you were feeling old-fashioned you could call the grocery list you just wrote a script. It's also a verb. You can script a play. WORD FAMILYscript: postscript, prescript, rescript, scripted, scripting, scripts, scriptural, subscript+/postscript: postscripts/prescript: prescripts/rescript: rescripts/scripted: unscripted/scriptural: scripturally/subscript: subscripts USAGE EXAMPLESHis one noticeable zinger, “You guys are ducking more questions than Congress,” sounded scripted. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) But just like in any good TV script, a twist was in store. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Every Christmas season the two Hallmark Channels release or replay a familiar holiday script. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) 1n something written by hand Syn|Hypo|Hyper hand, handwriting shorthand, stenography, tachygraphy a method of writing rapidly cursive, cursive script, longhand, running handrapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper calligraphy, chirography, penmanshipbeautiful handwriting cacography, scratch, scrawl, scribblepoor handwriting minusculea small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts copperplatea graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings italica style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right round handa clearly written style of longhand with large round curves chicken scratchcramped or illegible handwriting squigglean illegible scrawl writing letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language 2n a particular orthography or writing system Exp|Hypo|Hyper Linear B a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C. Aramaic, Aramaic script an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it Avestanthe script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written Brahmia script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari scripta syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi Pahlavithe script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language Uighur, Uigur, Uygurthe script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language unciala style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries cuneiforman ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia syllabary, syllabic scripta writing system whose characters represent syllables alphabeta character set that includes letters and is used to write a language Armenian, Armenian alphabeta writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written Babylonianthe ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written Latin alphabet, Roman alphabetthe alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew scripta Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) Greek alphabetthe alphabet used by ancient Greeks Cyrillic, Cyrillic alphabetan alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages) Arabic alphabetthe alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu) phonetic alphabet, sound alphabetan alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech finger alphabet, manual alphabetan alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions orthography, writing system a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols 3n a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance Syn|Hypo|Hyper book, playscript prompt copy, promptbook the copy of the playscript used by the prompter continuitya detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot dialog, dialoguethe lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction librettothe words of an opera or musical play scenarioan outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) screenplaya script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets shooting scriptthe final detailed script for making a movie or TV program duologuea part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors dramatic composition, dramatic work a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc. 4v write a script for The playwright scripted the movie Hyper compose, indite, pen, write produce a literary work |
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