Script vs Spill - 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.
To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to pour.
To spread out or fall out, as above.
* Isaac Watts
To drop something that was intended to be caught.
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To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
* Puttenham
* Fuller
(obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
* Chaucer
To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
* Dryden
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
(nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
(countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
A fall or stumble.
A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
* 2008 , Elizabeth Bear, Ink and Steel: A Novel of the Promethean Age :
A slender piece of anything.
# A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
# A metallic rod or pin.
(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
(obsolete) A small sum of money.
(Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of (l)
game, play
As nouns the difference between script and spill
is that script is (countable|obsolete) a writing; a written document while spill is game, activity.As a verb script
is to make or write a script.script
English
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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* ----spill
English
Verb
- I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
- Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
- He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.
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- They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
- Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.
- That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill .
- to revenge his blood so justly spilt
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* spiller * spill blood * spill one's seed * spill out * spill over * spill the beansNoun
(en noun)- The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
- Kit froze with the pipe between his teeth, the relit spill pressed to the weed within it.
- (Ayliffe)