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script

[skript]

noun

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

a manuscript or document.

the text of a manuscript or document.

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

any system of writing.

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Printing. a type imitating handwriting. Compare cursive.

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verb (used with object)

to write a script for: The movie was scripted by a famous author.

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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to spend time idly; loaf.

chat, to converse

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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

Related forms

script·er, noun

un·der·script, noun

Can be confused: 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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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.

If you really want to be creative, write the script for a tour guide to take people through the exhibit.

It is an odd departure from the anticipated script of mayhem and murder.

Because a script is so easy to get past, this script also allows you to browse freely during a defined period each hour.

The producer said there was no noticeable reaction from the audience, who may have thought the incident was part of the script.

Having your book optioned is no guarantee that a film will ever be made, nor that your views will be reflected in the script.

The authors show that, although details may vary, banking crises follow the same broad script.

No part of the ancient script was altered or damaged during this process.

We had one director come in with a script for a work in progress and rehearse scenes with the actors.

Install an ad-block script on your router, and any computer connected to your home network won't be served ads.

Cohen read an early draft of the script that had yet to be properly vetted.

He said sometimes students try to script their online discussions ahead of time.

History teaches us that financial crises are followed by anaemic growth and the developed economy is duly following the script.

Then, all of a sudden they called me and told me they had a script and thought it was perfect for me.

The students and former inmates developed the script together by discussing what they wanted to perform.

But both economies departed from the usual script of an export-led recovery.

If you are going formal, make sure you have a script.

Unfortunately, no one seems to have read the prime minister's script.

In other words, stick to the script or be eliminated.

Sometimes they suggest changes to the script to lower risk.

Such meetings are typically plain-vanilla affairs that closely follow a script.

California will be lucky if it follows such a script.

The students developed the survey and wrote the script.

The regime is following a script familiar from other recent protest sites around the country.

Macau's authorities no doubt feel that he has been writing his own script for too long.

And neural prostheses that make you into a chimera of human and robot are still the stuff of script writers.

Here's a handy script and table to help you hit the talking points that count.

More writers and producers are cutting branding deals before the movie is cast or the script is fully shaped.

In consecutive translation, a script is read making pauses for the translation.

Provide her with a mental script of a response to a bully.

Have them script and stage a play portraying what people in their community might say and do about this situation.

There's also a script for simultaneous interpretation.

When he spotted a potato bug in his backyard while prepping the script for.

Decades ago the glories of their ruined cities and their beautiful but undeciphered script had many researchers imagining a.

The screenwriters derived their script based from the local public official.

While the practice saves money on script acquisition.

All it needs is some humor and it would make great script material.

Things went according to script until the end of last year, but have since reversed.

Summerlin is still acting out a script written years ago.

Whether it's the fact that the script has already been story-boarded or maybe because they.

By asking us questions it gives us an opportunity to divert from what will become a script.

So far the current recovery is following this post-crisis script.

We go over the script scene by scene and address any questions that come up.

The script came largely out of the improvised quips of the cowboys, replacing cattle with cats.

Most directors gave him merely a script and an outline.

Either the host or the writers of the script couldn't seem to decide if this was a fun ride or an issue of character.

So the script supervisor had to maintain laser focus, resetting the clock for each take.

The script is gritty and naturalistic, with authentic rhythms that come with improvisation from the cast.

The firm has found a way to etch, in script invisible to the naked eye, its logo and a serial number on its gems.

Every six months or so he buys a script from one of the many itinerant writers trawling the market, and hires a producer and crew.

It remains to be seen how closely national authorities follow the script.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

Scriptural.

Scripture.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

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]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Etymonline

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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Slang Dictionary

script(t) definition

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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