different between script vs logline

See Wiktionary:Scripts for information about scripts on Wiktionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scr?b? (“write”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Noun

script (countable and uncountable, plural scripts)

1. (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.

   Synonyms: cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript

2. Written characters; style of writing.
3. (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

   Synonym: cursive

4. (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
5. (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.

   Hyponyms: screenplay, teleplay

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

   Synonyms: batch file, macro, shell script

   Hyponyms: coffeescript, here-script, postscript

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

   Synonyms: language script, writing system

8. Short for prescription.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• scripture

Translations

Verb

script (third-person singular simple present scripts, present participle scripting, simple past and past participle scripted)

1. (transitive) To make or write a script.
2. (transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.

Translations

References

• script in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• crispt

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skr?pt/
• Hyphenation: script
• Rhymes: -?pt

Noun

script n (plural scripts, diminutive scriptje n)

1. script (written text of a dramatic performance)

See also

• scenario

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English script. Doublet of écrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?ipt/

Noun

script m (plural scripts)

1. script (written dialogue for a play, film, etc.)

Further reading

• “script” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• szkript

Etymology

Borrowed from English script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?skript]
• Hyphenation: script

Noun

script (plural scriptek)

1. (computing) script

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English script. Doublet of escrito.

Noun

script m (plural scripts)

1. (acting) script (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)

   Synonym: roteiro

2. (computing) script (source code that is interpreted rather than compiled)

Related terms

• escrito

Romanian

Etymology

Initially inherited from Latin scriptum as the past participle of scrie, which was later replaced by scris. The current meaning is borrowed from English script.

Noun

script n (plural scripturi)

1. script (of a film, play, show, etc.)

Synonyms

• scenariu

Related terms

• scriptic

English

Alternative forms

• logge-line, log lyne, logg line, logg-line, loggline (all obsolete)
• log line, log-line

Etymology

First attested in 1613 as logge-line. A compound of log +? line.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??.la?n/

Noun

logline (plural loglines)

1. (authorship) A very short summary of a script or screenplay.

   Coordinate term: elevator pitch

   • 2013, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack (page 16)

     Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]

   • 2013, Linda Venis, Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Penguin (?ISBN)

     The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.

2. (nautical) The line fastened to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel.
   • 1613, Mark Ridley, A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions

     Besides the ingenious Pilot knowing the elevation of the Pole in some places of his voyage that he hath passed, by keeping a true, not a dead reckoning of his course in pricking his Card aright, and observing the way with the logge-line, with other currants, will give a very artificiall conjecture of the elevation of the pole in that place where he is, though he sec neither Sunne nor Starres.

   • 1627, John Smith, A sea grammar with the plaine exposition of Smiths Accidence for young sea-men, enlarged

     Bring the ship to rights, that is, againe under saile as she was, some use a Log line, and a minute glasse to know what way shee makes, but that is so uncertaine, it is not worth the la­bour to trie it.

   • 1659, John Collins, Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale New Plain'd

     The 120th part of that Mile is 41? feet, and so much is the space betweene the Knots upon the Log-line: So many Knots as the ship runs in half a minute, so many Miles she sayleth in an hour; or so many Leagues, and so many Miles she runneth in a Watch or four hours, called A Watch, because one half of the Ships Company watcheth by turns, and changes every four hours.

Related terms

• heave the log

Translations

See also

• plotline