{
    "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’."
}