Script Definition

skrĭpt
scripted, scripting, scripts
noun
scripts
Handwriting; written words, letters, or figures.
Webster's New World
A style of writing with cursive characters.
American Heritage
A typeface that looks like handwriting, with the letters seemingly connected when typeset.
Webster's New World
A style of handwriting; manner or method of forming letters or figures.
Webster's New World
A particular system of writing.
Cuneiform script.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
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verb
scripted, scripting, scripts
To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.
American Heritage
To arrange, direct, or control (an event or a person) as if supplying a script.
American Heritage
To write the script for (a film, etc.)
Webster's New World
abbreviation
Scriptural.
Webster's New World
Scripture.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Script

Noun

Singular:
script
Plural:
Scripts

Origin of Script

  • Middle English skript a piece of writing alteration of scrite from Old French escrit from Latin scrīptum from neuter past participle of scrībere to write skrībh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old English scrit, Latin scriptum (something written), from scrÄ«bō (“write").

    From Wiktionary

Script Sentence Examples

  • In seconds a small script appeared.

  • She had rehearsed her script earlier, but now the words evaded her.

  • The immortal mating script clearly read, Gabriel.

  • But it remains to be proved whether these tablets were written there, and not rather, being in a foreign script, abroad, like most of the Tell el-Amarna archives.

  • This script, together with the general Sumerian culture, was taken over by the Babylonians upon their settlement in the Euphrates valley and adapted to their language, which belonged to the Semitic group. In this transfer the Sumerian words - largely monosyllabic - were reproduced, but read as Semitic, and 1 Cf.

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Words Starting With

SSCSCR

Words Ending With

TPTIPT

Unscrambles

script

Words Starting With S and Ending With T

Starts With S & Ends With TStarts With SC & Ends With TStarts With S & Ends With PT

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With T