script
- noun
- /skrɪpt/
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- To enhance user experience, the website uses a script that loads content dynamically.
- script language
- use scripts
- PHP script
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Watch on YouTubeWrite me ACS script of a game where a duck jumps over boxes.
- Write me ACS script of a game where a duck jumps over boxes.
- Like script sit or pub key, script wait, script pub key.
Examples
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Write Linux and Windows scripts to support proper security protocols.
Academic text (2017) -
Therefore, it is a common practice to buy a script and adapt it to local tastes.
Academic text (1990) -
So let's start the script and speed on through.
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Each set is accompanied by a printed script, which the individual keeps for future reference.
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So right now I'm working on the compression script algorithm.
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The programmer wrote a script to automate data entry in the spreadsheet.
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She created a simple script to format the text files before sending them to clients.
Compounds
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A final detailed plan for filming that shows scenes, camera directions, and other production details
An alphabet of letters used to write Hebrew and other Jewish languages, for example Yiddish and Ladino
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An ancient alphabet used to write Aramaic that influenced many later scripts
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A computer language used to write small programs that do tasks for you
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A set of written signs that a person or group makes for use with a language, often for fiction
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A fast, flowing form of ancient Egyptian writing used by priests for religious and official texts
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A tool that does tasks automatically in Google apps like Gmail and Sheets
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A simple handwritten Egyptian writing used for everyday documents in ancient Egypt
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A writing system where each symbol stands for a syllable like "ka" or "mo"
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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
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A writing system used for Hindi and Sanskrit that uses symbols for syllables and a horizontal line above the symbols
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A writing system with one form for each letter and no capital or small letters
How Complex
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Script comes from the Latin scriptum 'a thing written' and scribere 'to write'. Think of a computer script as a short set of written instructions for a machine, like a tiny written plan, which is why programmers call these small programs 'scripts'.