HOW TO PRONOUNCE
script
/skɹɪpt/
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Connect both the opening and the ending.
Begin with s-k-r and finish with p-t. The short i vowel is the word’s only vowel beat, so avoid inserting another vowel into either cluster.
1 syllable
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“The actor read the script on the train.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does script mean?
noun
- A writing; a written document.
- Written characters; style of writing.
- Type made in imitation of handwriting.
More meanings (10)
noun
- An original instrument or document.
- The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
- A series of events with a predefined order and outcome.
- A brief and simple program.
- A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
- Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
- A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
- (informal) Clipping of prescription (for drugs or medicine).
verb
- To make or write a script.
- To devise, concoct, or contrive.
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IPA pronunciation
/skɹɪpt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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See this word in context.
As the Ogham script is really a combination of straight lines, the latter case may be taken with considerable reserve.
In the siphon recorder script dots and dashes are represented by curves of opposite flexure.
More book examples (3)
He sat down at the table, and while Thea looked over his arm, began to write the song down in a long, slanting script, with highly ornamental capitals.
The manuscript in its present state had neither beginning nor end, but it was growing strenuously in the middle, and hundreds of pages were covered with Roger's minute script.
Why, they even tipped in the opposite direction from all that he had ever examined either in printed books or the difficult script of the few letters he had found.