script
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4.1
- noun
- /skrɪpt/
- The museum has a display showcasing the intricate script of the ancient Egyptians.
- Arabic script
- Latin script
- Cyrillic script
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- There's Easter Island script I was just talking to.
- It's a small booklet on the Egyptian script by Champollion, obviously in French.
Examples
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The ancient manuscript featured a beautiful script in a language no longer spoken.
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The spelling is atrocious, and the script is sometimes hard to decipher.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's like an ancient script that I cannot understand.
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Their card was signed in the big open script of good children.
Fiction book (2002) -
And this is actually the script from South Sulawesi.
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The fact that the script survives points to the importance of that particular program.
Academic text (2008) -
But I have yet to learn the scripts of the Saxons.
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It's a small booklet on the Egyptian script by Champollion, obviously in French.
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Her elegant handwriting resembles the script used in medieval texts.
Synonyms
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1.0
A set of letters in a fixed order for writing a language
2
3.5
A way to show a language's words using letters or characters
Compounds
- Specialized
2
7.4
A final detailed plan for filming that shows scenes, camera directions, and other production details
1
6.3
An alphabet of letters used to write Hebrew and other Jewish languages, for example Yiddish and Ladino
- Specialized
1
9.8
An ancient alphabet used to write Aramaic that influenced many later scripts
- Specialized
1
6.0
A computer language used to write small programs that do tasks for you
- Specialized
1
8.4
A set of written signs that a person or group makes for use with a language, often for fiction
- Specialized
1
9.9
A fast, flowing form of ancient Egyptian writing used by priests for religious and official texts
- Specialized
1
5.1
A tool that does tasks automatically in Google apps like Gmail and Sheets
- Specialized
1
9.9
A simple handwritten Egyptian writing used for everyday documents in ancient Egypt
- Specialized
1
8.0
A writing system where each symbol stands for a syllable like "ka" or "mo"
- Specialized
1
8.1
A writing system that uses symbols for syllables and is used for Hindi and Sanskrit
- Archaic
A simpler form of the Cyrillic alphabet for printing books and papers that are not religious
- Specialized
A writing system used for Hindi and Sanskrit that uses symbols for syllables and a horizontal line above the symbols
- Specialized
A writing system with one form for each letter and no capital or small letters
How Clear
Surface Forms
Etymology
Script comes from the Latin scriptum 'a thing written' and scribere 'to write'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a script as the set of written signs for a language (for example, the Latin script for English or the Devanagari script for Hindi), which is why it means a writing system.