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Scenario vs. Script — What's the Difference?

Scenario vs. Script — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Scenario and Script

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Scenario

In the performing arts, a scenario (UK: , US: ; from Italian: "that which is pinned to the scenery", pronounced [ʃeˈnaːrjo]) is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events. In the commedia dell'arte it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play, and was literally pinned to the back of the scenery.

Script

Handwriting.

Scenario

An expected or supposed situation or sequence of events
"It was almost impossible to conceive a scenario in which he would fail to qualify for at least three Olympic events" (Jeremy Schaap).

Script

A style of writing with cursive characters.

Scenario

An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
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Script

A particular system of writing
Cuneiform script.

Scenario

An outline or treatment for a screenplay.

Script

A style of type that imitates handwriting.

Scenario

A screenplay.

Script

The matter set in this type.

Scenario

An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.

Script

The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.

Scenario

A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.

Script

A copy of a text used by a director or performer.

Scenario

An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.

Script

(Law) The original of a legal instrument, as opposed to a copy.

Scenario

A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

Script

(Computers) A simple program in a language that the computer must convert to machine language each time the program is run.

Scenario

An outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)

Script

To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.

Scenario

A setting for a work of art or literature;
The scenario is France during the Reign of Terror

Script

To arrange, direct, or control (an event or a person) as if supplying a script
"the brilliant, charming, judicial moderate scripted by his White House fans" (Ellen Goodman).

Scenario

A postulated sequence of possible events;
Planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack

Script

(Computers) To write (code) for a program.

Script

A writing; a written document.

Script

Written characters; style of writing.

Script

(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

Script

An original instrument or document.

Script

(countable) 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.

Script

(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

Script

(psychology) A behavioral script; sequence of actions in a given situation.

Script

(linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

Script

(informal) prescription for drugs or medicine

Script

(transitive) To make or write a script.

Script

(transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.

Script

A writing; a written document.

Script

Type made in imitation of handwriting.

Script

An original instrument or document.

Script

Written characters; style of writing.

Script

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance

Script

Something written by hand;
She recognized his handwriting
His hand was illegible

Script

A particular orthography or writing system

Script

Write a script for;
The playwright scripted the movie

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