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script (skript)

noun

    1. handwriting; written words, letters, or figures
    2. a style of handwriting; manner or method of forming letters or figures
    3. Printing a typeface that looks like handwriting, with the letters connected
  1. a written document; original manuscript
  2. the manuscript, or a copy of the text, of a stage, film, radio, or television show

Etymology: ME < MFr escript < L scriptum < neut. of scriptus, pp. of scribere, to write: see scribe

transitive verb

to write the script for (a film, etc.)
script2 definition

script

  1. scriptural
  2. scripture

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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