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[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.
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6.
Printing. a type imitating handwriting. Compare cursive.
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verb (used with object)
7.
to write a script for: The movie was scripted by a famous author.
8.
to plan or devise; make arrangements for: The week-long festivities were scripted by a team of experts.

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Script is one of our favorite verbs.
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chat, to converse

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English (noun) < Latin scrīptum, noun use of neuter past participle of scrībere to write; replacing Middle English scrit < Old French escrit < Latin, as above

script·er, noun
un·der·script, noun

scrip, script.
Example Sentences
  • Rarely, however, does getting a movie script rejected involve an explosion.
  • Since the captioning is taken from the script's files, any alteration between script and shooting is lost.
  • Almost all these languages have separate and distinctive script.
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scrip or script3 (skrɪp)
 
n
informal a medical prescription
 
[C20: short for prescription]
 
script or script3
 
n
 
[C20: short for prescription]

script (skrɪpt)
 
n
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
 a.  an original or principal document
 b.  (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
 
vb
10.  (tr) to write a script for
 
[C14: from Latin scriptum something written, from scrībere to write]

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Word Origin & History

script
late 14c., "something written," from O.Fr. escrit (Fr. écrit) "a writing, written paper," from L. scriptum "a writing, book, law, line, mark," noun use of neut. pp. of scribere "to write," from PIE *skreibh- (cf. Gk. skariphasthai "to scratch an outline, sketch," Lett. skripat "scratch, write,"
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O.N. hrifa "scratch"), from base *sker- "cut, incise" (cf. O.E. sceran "cut off, shear;" see shear) on the notion of carving marks in stone, wood, etc. Meaning "handwriting" is recorded from 1860. Theatrical use, short for manuscript, is attested from 1897. The importance of Rome to the spread of civilization in Europe is attested by the fact that the word for "write" in Romance, Celtic and Gmc. languages derives from scribere (e.g. Fr. écrire, Ir. scriobhaim, Welsh ysgrifennu, Ger. schreiben), but the cognate O.E. scrifan means "to allot, assign, decree" (see shrive; also cf. O.N. skript "penance") and Mod.Eng. uses write (q.v.) to express this action.
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script(t) definition


  1. n.
    a note; any piece of paper with a written message. (Underworld.) : Make him sign this script before you let him in on the deal.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

SCRIPT definition


1. An early system on the IBM 702.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
2. A real-time language.
["A Communication Abstraction Mechanism and its Verification", N. Francez et al, Sci Comp Prog 6(1):35-88 (1986)].
(1994-12-01)

script definition

language
A program written in a scripting language, but see Ousterhout's dichotomy.
(1999-02-22)

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