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script

[skript]

–noun

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

–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.

Origin:
1325–75; ME (n.) < L scrīptum, n. use of neut. ptp. of scrībere to write; r. ME scrit < OF escrit < L, as above

Related forms:

scripter, noun

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Script.

1.	Scriptural.

2.	Scripture.

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script (skrĭpt)

1. Handwriting.
2. A style of writing with cursive characters.
3. A particular system of writing: cuneiform script.
4. A style of type that imitates handwriting.
5. The matter set in this type.
6. The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.
7. A copy of a text used by a director or performer.
Printing
1. A style of type that imitates handwriting.
2. The matter set in this type.
3. The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.
4. A copy of a text used by a director or performer.
1. The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.
2. A copy of a text used by a director or performer.
Law An original document.
Computer Science A simple program in a utility language or an application's proprietary language.

tr.v. script·ed, script·ing, scripts

To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.
To orchestrate (behavior or an event, for example) as if writing a script: "the brilliant, charming, judicial moderate scripted by his White House fans" (Ellen Goodman).

[Middle English skript, a piece of writing, alteration of scrite, from Old French escrit, from Latin scrīptum, from neuter past participle of scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.]

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Script

Script\, n. [OE. scrit, L. scriptum something written, fr. scribere, scriptum to write: cf. OF. escript, ?scrit, F. ['e]crit. See Scribe, and cf. Scrip a writing.]

1. A writing; a written document. [Obs.] --aucer.

2. (Print.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

3. (Law) An original instrument or document.

4. Written characters; style of writing.

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Language Translation for : script

Spanish: guión, escritura, texto,

German: das Manuskript,

Japanese: 台本

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script

c.1374, "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," 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.

Main Entry: script
Pronunciation: 'skript
Function: noun
: PRESCRIPTION 1

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

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