Script.

¹

abbreviation

1. Scriptural.

2. Scripture.

script

²

[skript]

noun

1. the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.

2. a manuscript or document.

3. the text of a manuscript or document.

4. the manuscript or one of various copies of the written text of a play, motion picture, or radio or television broadcast.

5. any system of writing.

6. Printing.,  a type imitating handwriting.

7. Digital Technology.,  an executable section of code that automates a task.

   You will have to run the script to install the program on your computer.

verb (used with object)

1. to write a script for.

   The movie was scripted by a famous author.

2. to plan or devise; make arrangements for.

   The week-long festivities were scripted by a team of experts.

3. Digital Technology.,  to write an executable section of code for (a program) in order to automate a task.

   You can script a program that will scan your files.

verb (used without object)

1. Digital Technology.,  to write an executable section of code that automates a task.

   Most programmers script in more than one programming language.

script

/ skrɪpt /

noun

1. handwriting as distinguished from print, esp cursive writing

2. the letters, characters, or figures used in writing by hand

3. any system or style of writing

4. written copy for the use of performers in films and plays

5. law

   1. an original or principal document

   2. (esp in England) a will or codicil or the draft for one

6. any of various typefaces that imitate handwriting

7. computing a series of instructions that is executed by a computer program

8. an answer paper in an examination

9. another word for scrip 3

verb

1. (tr) to write a script for

Other Word Forms

• scripter noun
• underscript noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Script.¹

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English (noun), from Latin scriptum, noun use of neuter past participle of scrībere “to write”; replacing Middle English scrit, from Old French escrit, from Latin, as above; (verb) first recorded in 1930–35; from the noun.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Script.¹

C14: from Latin scriptum something written, from scrībere to write

Example Sentences

He realised as soon as he had read a few pages of the script that the role was "a life-changer".

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Even if things hadn't gone to script on Sunday - or at any stage during his interim tenure - his place in club folklore is fixed.

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As long as baseball is played, a script like this will never be replicated.

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Tracy’s script, a faithful yet singular remake of the 2003 South Korean film, “Save the Green Planet!,” shrewdly analyzes how quickly contemporary hopelessness breeds radicalism.

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It captures the swagger, charisma and impulsiveness with which Godard convinced financial backers and Hollywood starlet Jean Seberg to make a debut feature that had neither a script nor a workable filming schedule.

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Related Words

• article 
• book 
• copy 
• dialogue 
• libretto 
• manuscript 
• scenario 
• text