Script vs Write - What's the difference?
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(countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.
Written characters; style of writing.
(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
(countable, legal) An original instrument or document.
(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.
(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
(linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
An abbreviation for a prescription.
(lb) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
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(lb) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
(lb) To send written information to.
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(lb) To show (information, etc) in written form.
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(lb) To be an author.
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To record (data) mechanically or electronically.
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To fill in, to complete using words.
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
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To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
* 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
In computing terms the difference between script and write
is that script is a file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence while write is the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.In transitive terms the difference between script and write
is that script is to make or write a script while write is to show (information, etc) in written form.script
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Noun
(wikipedia)(Scripting language) (en noun)Synonyms
* (writing) cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript * (typography) cursive type, typeface, face, or font * (computing) batch file, macro, shell script * (linguistics) language script, writing systemHyponyms
* (text for drama) screenplay * (text for drama) teleplayDerived terms
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Synonyms
* inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely) * (be the author of) author, pen * to post * display, indicate, mark, show * save, store * See alsoAntonyms
* load, read, retrieveDerived terms
* bewrite * co-write * hand-written * nothing to write home about * overwrite * rewrite * that's all she wrote * underwrite * who writes this stuff? * write down, write-down * write head * write in, write-in * write off, write-off * write once * * write one's own ticket * write-only * write out * writer * write up, write-up * writingNoun
(en noun)- How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
- In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes , the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.