单词 | scriptwriter |
释义 | scriptwritern. 1. Usually as two words or with hyphen. A person who writes script (script n.1 7), esp. as an occupation. ΚΠ 1890 J. W. Gibson Mem. S. Bordley 31 The stiff geometrical forms of centuries past..possessing many advantages which Script writers throw aside. 1912 Irish Times 18 Mar. 2/2 Lithographic. Artist wanted; must be good designer and script writer. 1925 Eng. Rev. 40 79 Some [children] wrote script, and some wrote cursive. The script-writers won easily. 2007 P. Pandey in P. G. Patel et al. Indic Scripts xii. 244 It must have been left to the efficient hands of script writers..to evolve uniform units with which to create the system of alphabets. 2. A person who writes scripts for film, television, radio, etc.; the writer of a particular script or screenplay. Cf. screenwriter n.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > screenplay or script > [noun] > writer scriptwriter1911 screenwriter1913 scenarioist1914 scenarist1919 scripter1936 1911 Moving Picture News 16 Dec. 28/1 There seems to be an idea prevalent among a certain section of the now great army of script writers that scenario editors and directors are conspirators to steal the thoughts and labors of authors. 1943 Manch. Guardian 2 Feb. 3/6 Noel Coward, as producer and script-writer of ‘In Which We Serve’, has triumphed. 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media ii. xxx. 299 The resonating dimension of radio is unheeded by the script writers. 1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 6 July Keith Johnston, a chief scriptwriter at London's Royal Court Theatre, began to grow disillusioned with what he saw as the stifling conventionality of traditional theatre. 2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 355 Struggling scriptwriters..seek an audience with a producer or director. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1890 |
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