Kilo Lingo

/skrɪpt/

Line drawing of script
Coloured illustration of script
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Translation

The written words of a film, play, or speech.

Word origin

From Latin scriptum, something written, from scribere, to write.

Origin
Latin
Root
scribere
English cognates
describe, scripture

Grammar

Gender
Pluralscripts

Examples

filming .

The "script" holds every line the actors will say.

.

Here "script" is the written text of the whole film.

.

Actors go back to the script when they cannot remember their words.

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This word is part of lesson 47.