script
Script means handwriting, handwriting with connected letters or a printed typeface that is connected like handwriting.
(noun)- An example of script is calligraphy.
- 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)- An example of a script is the screenplay for the movie Chinatown.
- An example of a script is the greeting which is spoken when making phone calls for a call center.
See script in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- handwriting; written words, letters, or figures
- a style of handwriting; manner or method of forming letters or figures
- Printing a typeface that looks like handwriting, with the letters connected
- a written document; original manuscript
- 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
- scriptural
- scripture
See script in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. Handwriting.b. A style of writing with cursive characters.c. A particular system of writing: cuneiform script.
- Printing a. A style of type that imitates handwriting.b. The matter set in this type.
- a. The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.b. 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.
- 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).
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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