script : Idioms & Phrases


alphabetic script

  • noun a writing system based on alphabetic characters
    alphabetic writing.
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aramaic script

  • noun an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it
    Aramaic.
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bicameral script

  • noun a script having two distinct cases
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cursive script

  • noun rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
    longhand; cursive; running hand.
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demotic script

  • noun a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
    Demotic.
    • Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek
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devanagari script

  • noun a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
    Devanagari; Devanagari script; Nagari.
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hebrew script

  • noun a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
    Hebrew alphabet; Hebraic alphabet.
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hieratic script

  • noun a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
    hieratic.
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nagari script

  • noun a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
    Devanagari; Devanagari script; Nagari.
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shooting script

  • noun the final detailed script for making a movie or TV program
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syllabic script

  • noun a writing system whose characters represent syllables
    syllabary.
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unicameral script

  • noun a script with a single case
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