different between subscribe vs script

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subscr?bere. Compare its Germanic equivalent underwrite.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /s?b?sk?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Verb

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)

1. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

2. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
3. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea (used with to).

4. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
5. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
   • 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography:

     […] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;

6. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

7. (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:

     The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.

8. (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity^[1]:

     All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

9. (archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
   • c. 1510, Thomas More, The Life of Pico della Mirandola

     [They] subscribed their names under them.

10. (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
11. (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
13. (transitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.

    Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

14. (intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.

    If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sub?skri?.be/, [s??p?s?k?i?b?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sup?skri.be/, [sup?sk?i?b?]

Verb

subscr?be

1. second-person singular present active imperative of subscr?b?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /subs?k?ibe/, [su??s?k?i.??e]

Verb

subscribe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subscribir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subscribir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of subscribir.

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