script
- noun
- /skrɪpt/
- Specialized
- To enhance user experience, the website uses a script that loads content dynamically.
- script language
- use scripts
- PHP script
Write 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.
Academic text (1993) -
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
- Specialized
A final detailed plan for filming that shows scenes, camera directions, and other production details
- Specialized
An ancient alphabet used to write Aramaic that influenced many later scripts
- Specialized
A computer language used to write small programs that do tasks for you
- Archaic
A simpler form of the Cyrillic alphabet for printing books and papers that are not religious
- Specialized
A set of written signs that a person or group makes for use with a language, often for fiction
- Specialized
A simple handwritten Egyptian writing used for everyday documents in ancient Egypt
- Specialized
A writing system that uses symbols for syllables and is used for Hindi and Sanskrit
- Specialized
A tool that does tasks automatically in Google apps like Gmail and Sheets
An alphabet of letters used to write Hebrew and other Jewish languages, for example Yiddish and Ladino
- Specialized
A fast, flowing form of ancient Egyptian writing used by priests for religious and official texts
- 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 where each symbol stands for a syllable like "ka" or "mo"
- Specialized
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'.