Dictionary Definition
script
Noun
1 a written version of a play or other dramatic
composition; used in preparing for a performance [syn: book, playscript]
2 something written by hand; "she recognized his
handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" [syn: handwriting, hand]
3 a particular orthography or writing system v :
write a script for; "The playwright scripted the movie"
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- /skrɪpt/
- Rhymes with: -ɪpt
Noun
- A writing; a written document.
- Written characters; style of writing.
- Type made in imitation of handwriting.
- An original instrument or document.
- The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
- A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
- A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
- An abbreviation for a prescription.
Synonyms
- sense Writing manuscript, handwriting, cursive, hand
- sense Typography cursive type, typeface, face, or font
- sense Computing macro, shell script, batch file
- sense Linguistics writing system, language script
Related terms
Translations
written characters
- French: écriture
- German: Handschrift
- Malayalam: ലിപി (lipi)
text of the dialogue and action for a drama
procedure or program in computing
- Czech: skript
Verb
- to make or write a script
References
Extensive Definition
Script may refer to:
- Script (performing arts), the dialogue and instructions for a play, musical or other performance work
- Script (recorded media), the dialogue and instructions for a film or television programme
- Script (comic book), the dialogue for a comic book or comic strip
- SCRIPT (AHRC Centre) Scottish Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technologies
- Scripting language (computing), a script written for the command interpreter of an operating system
- Behavioral script, a sequence of expected behaviors
- Scripts (artificial intelligence), a structure for representing procedural knowledge
- IBM SCRIPT, IBM's text formatting language
- Writing system
Script can also be used for:
- Handwriting or calligraphy
- Manuscript, any written document that is put down by hand
- Script (typeface), a raster typeface packaged with Windows XP
- Script (typefaces), a coordinated set of letterforms designed with stylistic unity
- Screenplay, the dialog and instructions for a film
- Teleplay, the dialog and instructions for a television production
- A common abbreviation or slang-type usage of Medical prescription
- A set of defined base elements or symbols in a writing system
See also
- Scrip, any currency substitute
- The Script (band), Irish Indie Pop Band
script in Czech: Skript
script in German: Skript
script in Spanish: Guión
script in French: Script
script in Italian: Script
script in Dutch: Script
script in Japanese: スクリプト
script in Polish: Skrypt
script in Portuguese: Script
script in Simple English: Script
script in Slovak: Skript
script in Chinese: 腳本
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
IPA,
ITA, Initial Teaching
Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, alphabet, alphabetics, arrange, art, article, ascender, autograph, autography, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, blank, blueprint, body, book, brainchild, calligraphy, cap, capital, case, charactering, characterization,
chart, chirograph, chirography, choreography, composition, computer
printout, configure,
continuity,
conventional representation, copy, counter, create, cue, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, descender, design, diagram, docket, document, dossier, draft, drama, drawing, edited version,
em, en, engrossment, essay, exemplification,
face, fair copy, fat-faced
type, feet, fiction, figuration, file, final draft, finished
version, first draft, fist,
flimsy, font, form, futhark, graphanalysis, graphemics, graphology, graphometry, groove, hand, handwriting, hieroglyphic, holograph, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, instrument, italic, lay out, legal document,
legal instrument, legal paper, letter, letters, libretto, ligature, limning, lines, literae scriptae, literary
artefact, literary production, literature, logogram, logograph, logotype, lower case, lucubration, majuscule, manuscript, map, matter, minuscule, musical notation,
nick, nonfiction, notation, official document,
opus, order, organize, original, paleography, paper, papers, parchment, pattern, pen, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, personal file,
pi, pica, pictogram, picturization, piece, piece of writing, plan, play, playbook, poem, point, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, prepare, presentment, print, printed matter, printing, printout, production, projection, reading matter,
realization,
recension, rendering, rendition, representation, roll, roman, runic alphabet, sans serif,
scenario, scene plot,
schema, score, screed, scrip, scription, scrive, scroll, second draft, shank, shooting script, shoulder, side, small cap, small capital,
stamp, stem, stylography, syllabary, symbol, tablature, teleplay, text, the written word, transcript, transcription, type, type body, type class, type
lice, typecase,
typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, typescript, upper case,
version, work, writ, write, writing, writing
system