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script

script [ skript ]


noun  (plural scripts)
Definition:
 
1. text of play or broadcast: the printed version of a stage play, movie screenplay, or radio or television broadcast, including the words to be spoken and often also technical directions

2. text instructing somebody what to say: a real or imagined piece of text setting out what somebody is to say or do on a specific occasion
The president stuck to his script and refused to comment on side issues.

3. manuscript: an original document or manuscript

4. handwriting: characters written by hand, especially in cursive form

5. system of writing: any system of characters used in writing

6. printed type resembling writing: printed type designed to imitate handwriting

7. series of commands in computer program: a sequence of automated computer commands embedded in a program that tells the program to execute a specific procedure when a Web page is opened or a hypertext link is clicked



transitive verb  (past and past participle script·ed, present participle script·ing, 3rd person present singular scripts)
Definition:
 
1. write script for something: to write or prepare a script for something, especially a play, film, or broadcast

2. direct somebody to say or do something: to make or arrange something as if according to a script
carefully scripted comments

[14th century. Via French< Latin scriptus< scribere "write"]

script·ed adjective
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