Script vs. Dialogue — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Script and Dialogue
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Script
Handwriting.
Dialogue
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including Indian literature.
Script
A style of writing with cursive characters.
Dialogue
A conversation between two or more people.
Script
A particular system of writing
Cuneiform script.
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Dialogue
A discussion of positions or beliefs, especially between groups to resolve a disagreement.
Script
A style of type that imitates handwriting.
Dialogue
Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
Script
The matter set in this type.
Dialogue
The lines or passages in a script that are intended to be spoken.
Script
The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.
Dialogue
A literary work written in the form of a conversation
The dialogues of Plato.
Script
A copy of a text used by a director or performer.
Dialogue
(Music) A composition or passage for two or more parts, suggestive of conversational interplay.
Script
(Law) The original of a legal instrument, as opposed to a copy.
Dialogue
To express as or in a dialogue
Dialogued parts of the story.
Script
(Computers) A simple program in a language that the computer must convert to machine language each time the program is run.
Dialogue
To engage in a dialogue.
Script
To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.
Dialogue
A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
Bill and Melinda maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.
Start up a dialogue
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).
Dialogue
(authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.
Script
(Computers) To write (code) for a program.
Dialogue
(philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.
Script
A writing; a written document.
Dialogue
(computing) A dialogue box.
Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.
Script
Written characters; style of writing.
Dialogue
To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.
Script
(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
Dialogue
(transitive) To put into dialogue form.
Script
An original instrument or document.
Dialogue
(obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
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.
Dialogue
A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
Script
(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
Dialogue
A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
Script
(psychology) A behavioral script; sequence of actions in a given situation.
Dialogue
To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
Script
(linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
Dialogue
To express as in dialogue.
And dialogued for him what he would say.
Script
(informal) prescription for drugs or medicine
Dialogue
A conversation between two persons
Script
(transitive) To make or write a script.
Dialogue
The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
Script
(transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.
Dialogue
A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people;
He has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek
Script
A writing; a written document.
Dialogue
A discussion intended to produce an agreement;
The buyout negotiation lasted several days
They disagreed but kept an open dialogue
Talks between Israelis and Palestinians
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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