schrift — meaning in English

English meaning

• Bible name The central sacred text of Judaism and Christianity, made up of the Old and New Testaments (or the Old Testament alone, for Jewish tradition).
• notebook noun A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.
• script noun The written text of a play, film, speech, or broadcast.
• writing noun The activity or skill of forming letters or symbols to represent language.

Senses

schrift is used for these senses in English:

• Bible The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.
• exercise book A booklet for students, containing either problems or exercises, and blank, often lined pages for writing answers.
• notebook (computing, sometimes, attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.
• script (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
• writing (uncountable) The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.

Bible — full definition

1. name The central sacred text of Judaism and Christianity, made up of the Old and New Testaments (or the Old Testament alone, for Jewish tradition).
2. noun By extension, the definitive or most authoritative reference book on a subject.

notebook — full definition

1. noun A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.
2. noun A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.
3. noun Ellipsis of notebook computer (“laptop computer”).

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