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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