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Written vs Scripted - What's the difference?

written | scripted |

As adjectives the difference between written and scripted

is that written is of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written while scripted is past tense of script.

As a verb written

is past participle of lang=en.

written

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)
    • I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
  • That was written.

    • Derived terms

    * unwritten, writtenness, unwrittenness

    Quotations

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    Antonyms

    * oral * verbal

    Derived terms

    * hand-written

    Verb

    (head)
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    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,

    Statistics

    * English adjectives ending in -en

    scripted

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (script)
  • Planned.
    • It looked like a chance meeting but actually it had been carefully scripted , just so Tom could meet Jane.

    Anagrams

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