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{
"term": "script",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a written text of a play, film, broadcast, talk, etc.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "That line isn't in the original script."
},
{
"text": "a film script"
},
{
"text": "to write/read a script"
},
{
"text": "We're currently working on a script."
},
{
"text": "He was reading from a prepared script."
},
{
"text": "a script about a farmer's life"
},
{
"text": "a script for children's TV"
}
],
"topics": ["Film and theatre"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["draft", "original", "final"],
"verb + script": ["prepare", "write", "co-write"],
"script + noun": ["editor", "writer"],
"preposition": ["script about", "script for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "writing done by hand",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She admired his neat script."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["neat", "cursive", "flowing"],
"preposition": ["in a/the script"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a set of letters in which a language is written",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a document in Cyrillic script *(= used to write Russian and some other languages)*"
}
],
"synonyms": "alphabet",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["neat", "cursive", "flowing"],
"preposition": ["in a/the script"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a candidate’s written answer or answers in an exam",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Education"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a series of instructions for a computer, carried out in a particular order, for example when a link in a website is clicked",
"labels": "(computing)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The bug was caused by an error in the script."
}
],
"topics": ["Computers"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/skrɪpt/",
"audio": "sc/script/script__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/skrɪpt/",
"audio": "sc/script/script__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘something written’): shortening of Old French escript, from Latin scriptum, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of scribere ‘write’."
}