What's the difference between alphabet and script?

Alphabet


Definition:

  • (n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
  • (n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.
  • (v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
  • (2) In Experiment 3, four strategies, alphabetic, size, serial order, and free recall, gave similar levels of recall after 6 min, though the growth rate of the cumulative output functions differed among the strategies.
  • (3) The controls for phonologically ambiguous words were the same words in their alternative, nonambiguous alphabetic transcription.
  • (4) MDD results were improved by using longer mutliplets and, if the sequences were coding, by using the larger amino acid and codon alphabets rather than the nucleotide alphabet.
  • (5) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
  • (6) Hanging on the walls are faded posters, a world map and the alphabet in Bengali and English.
  • (7) We present a polynomial algorithm (O(n X L4), where n is the number of sequences) for generating strings related to the LCS and constructed with the sequence alphabet and an indetermination symbol.
  • (8) A dramatic improvement in the S's ability to reproduce the alphabet was observed.
  • (9) Responses from all four mechanoreceptor classes (FA I, FA II, SA I and SA II) have been reconstructed to form two-dimensional Spatial Event Plots (raster plots) of the Braille alphabet.
  • (10) The chemical identity of the particular choice in our genetic alphabet can also be rationalized.
  • (11) "Satire is not a very familiar alphabet in Africa ," he said.
  • (12) Our Scrabble board had Velcro on the back, as did each alphabet piece.
  • (13) 10 Change your name Local parties, believe it or not, obsess over the alphabetical placement of candidates.
  • (14) However, the picture is rather complex in that we find significant correlations for some context-free word discrimination and sign-alphabet testing conditions.
  • (15) The lists were made up from the upper case letters of the alphabet, and during the recognition test each S was required to indicate how many times each of the irrelevant letters had appeared on the final list searched.
  • (16) Ministers have taken too long to consolidate the “alphabet soup” of agencies tasked with safeguarding the UK from cyber-attacks and there appears to be no coordination across the public sector, the public accounts committee (PAC) said.
  • (17) Biggs communicated using a pointer and alphabet, he said.
  • (18) They practiced spelling out the alphabet on a coloring book in a room next door.
  • (19) Failure rates of men, but not women students in genetics showed a significant positive correlation with alphabetical listing and ranged from 14% in the A-C region to 33% in the region T-Z.
  • (20) No attenuation of the alpha activity in the both hemispheres was seen during either the alphabet or kana syllabary imagery.

Script


Definition:

  • (n.) A writing; a written document.
  • (n.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
  • (n.) An original instrument or document.
  • (n.) Written characters; style of writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (2) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
  • (3) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (4) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (5) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
  • (6) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
  • (7) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
  • (8) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (9) The Center for Medical Progress may have a different name, but this is the same cast of characters and follows the same script.
  • (10) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
  • (11) The material in this paper provides a script for preparing a relaxation tape for clients to use between or in addition to regular therapy sessions.
  • (12) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
  • (13) The unprogrammed component of patient ritual involvement differs between the two settings, while the formal ritual 'script' is identical.
  • (14) You read the script and you're like, "Is this actually getting made?
  • (15) Sitting at the table today, Archie is doing his best to look the part – in time-honoured hip-hop style, there is an inspirational motto tattooed on his forearm in flowing script – and he and Foster have an impressive line in managerial hyperbole: "We believe that whatever record label we work for, we can change that label for the better because we understand what kids want to listen to."
  • (16) FremantleMedia may be best known for its talent and game shows, but the company is investing more in scripted formats, with Frot-Coutaz saying this strategy is about more than simply following cyclical TV industry trends.
  • (17) It was set up as a Thames subsidiary in 1971 to specialise in high quality mainstream drama and built a reputation for shooting on film and on location, unlike much production of scripted TV output at the time.
  • (18) Certainly, the new leader will need a way to continue to talk unmediated to this base, and may also – like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage – gain some mileage with the wider electorate for being at ease with himself, and refusing to talk to a script.
  • (19) Noice found that some actors learn their lines by focusing not on the words of the script, but on their underlying meaning and the motivations of the character who uses them.
  • (20) There’s no script so we can’t programme it on that basis.