different between script vs skit

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

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

skit (plural skits)

1. A short comic performance.
2. A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
   • 1882, Template:e, Swift

     That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.

3. (obsolete) A wanton girl; a wench.
   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

Translations

Verb

skit (third-person singular simple present skits, present participle skitting, simple past and past participle skitted)

1. (transitive, Ireland, Liverpudlian, Merseyside) To make fun of.
2. (regional, intransitive) To leap aside; to caper.

Related terms

• skittish

Translations

Anagrams

• Kist, kist, kits, tisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?t/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse skítr, from Proto-Germanic *sk?taz, *skitiz. Akin to English shit.

Alternative forms

• skitt

Noun

skit m (definite singular skiten, indefinite plural skitar, definite plural skitane)

1. shit, muck, feces
2. dirt, rubbish (something useless)

Synonyms

• drit

Etymology 2

Verb

skit

1. inflection of skita:
   1. present
   2. imperative

References

• “skit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse skítr, from Proto-Germanic *sk?taz, *skitiz. Cognate with Danish skid, Icelandic skítur, Dutch schijt, German Scheiße and English shit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?t/

Noun

skit c (colloquial, mildly vulgar)

1. excrement, shit

2. dirt, filth

3. someone or something undesirable or revolting

Interjection

skit

1. (colloquial, vulgar) shit!

Verb

skit

1. imperative of skita.

Anagrams

• sikt, tiks