What does script mean?

Definitions for script
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. script, book, playscriptnoun

    a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance

  2. handwriting, hand, scriptnoun

    something written by hand

    "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible"

  3. scriptverb

    a particular orthography or writing system

  4. scriptverb

    write a script for

    "The playwright scripted the movie"

Wiktionary

  1. scriptnoun

    A writing; a written document.

  2. scriptnoun

    Written characters; style of writing.

  3. scriptnoun

    Type made in imitation of handwriting.

  4. scriptnoun

    An original instrument or document.

  5. scriptnoun

    The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.

  6. scriptnoun

    A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

  7. scriptnoun

    A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

  8. scriptnoun

    An abbreviation for a prescription.

  9. scriptverb

    to make or write a script

  10. Etymology: scrit, scriptum (something written), from scribo.

ChatGPT

  1. script

    A script is a written document that outlines the narrative and dialogue of a play, film, television show, video game, or broadcast. It provides direction for the actors and other members of the production team about scenes, actions, settings, and emotions to be portrayed. Alternatively, in computing, a script is a series of instructions written in a scripting language, executed by a runtime system, to automate tasks in a particular program or software.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scriptnoun

    a writing; a written document

  2. Scriptnoun

    type made in imitation of handwriting

  3. Scriptnoun

    an original instrument or document

  4. Scriptnoun

    written characters; style of writing

  5. Etymology: [OE. scrit, L. scriptum something written, fr. scribere, scriptum to write: cf. OF. escript, escrit, F. crit. See Scribe, and cf. Scrip a writing.]

Wikidata

  1. SCRIPT

    SCRIPT, any of a series of text markup languages starting with Script under Control Program-67/Cambridge Monitor System and Script/370 under Virtual Machine Facility/370; the current version, SCRIPT/VS, is part of IBM's Document Composition Facility for IBM z/VM and z/OS systems. SCRIPT was developed for CP-67/CMS by Stuart Madnick at MIT, succeeding CTSS RUNOFF. SCRIPT is a procedural markup language. Inline commands called control words, indicated by a period in the first column of a logical line, describe the desired appearance of the formatted text. SCRIPT originally provided a 2PASS option to allow text to refer to variables defined later in the text, but subsequent versions allowed more than two passes.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Script

    skript, n. (print.) type like written letters: a writing: (law) an original document: handwriting.—n. Scrip′tion, a handwriting. [O. Fr. escript—L. scriptumscribĕre, to write.]

Editors Contribution

  1. script

    A system of sequenced writing, coding within a type of computer, computer language, software, computer program, app, website or webpage.

    The software programmers were creating the script very efficiently for the new system.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 14, 2020  


  2. script

    A system of writing.

    Various types of software have script within them.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 14, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'script' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4774

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'script' in Nouns Frequency: #2194

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of script in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of script in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of script in a Sentence

  1. Burt Reynolds:

    I think I have a performance in me. It's a good one, i don't know if I'll get that script. I'm hoping.

  2. Jack Minot:

    It is not surprising that Die Hard would make the most stressful Christmas viewing, with script designed for action compared to more traditional Christmas films that make it onto the most relaxing list.

  3. Kristian Brown:

    Based on the script, I can tell you 100 percent, Han shot first.

  4. Mark Anthony Neal:

    The optics of being on the ground and recognizing what has happened is more important than anything Barack Obama has to say, i would like for once to see Barack Obama go off script and have a human, angry reaction to this, because it would humanize Barack Obama and it would humanize this situation that the country seems almost desensitized to.

  5. Koichi Hagiuda:

    This has become a political card with people overseas saying that to be persuasive, a certain script must be followed ... in a statement that Japan will issue on its own, if he meets those expectations, this will eternally become a political card.

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