script

Script means handwriting, handwriting with connected letters or a printed typeface that is connected like handwriting.

(noun)

  1. An example of script is calligraphy.
  2. An example of script is cursive writing.

Script is defined as the written words of a play, movie or show, or a standard message to deliver on the phone or in person.

(noun)

  1. An example of a script is the screenplay for the movie Chinatown.
  2. An example of a script is the greeting which is spoken when making phone calls for a call center.

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See script in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

Origin: 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.)

  1. scriptural
  2. scripture

See script in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. a. Handwriting.
    b. A style of writing with cursive characters.
    c. A particular system of writing: cuneiform script.
  2. Printing
    a. A style of type that imitates handwriting.
    b. The matter set in this type.
  3. a. The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.
    b. A copy of a text used by a director or performer.
  4. Law An original document.
  5. Computer Science A simple program in a utility language or an application's proprietary language.
transitive verb script·ed, script·ing, scripts
  1. To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.
  2. 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).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English skript, a piece of writing

Origin: , alteration of scrite

Origin: , from Old French escrit

Origin: , from Latin scrīptum

Origin: , from neuter past participle of scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots

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