script

From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).

• IPA^(key): /skɹɪpt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪpt

script (countable and uncountable, plural scripts)

1. (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.

   Synonyms: cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript

2. Written characters; style of writing.
3. (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

   Synonym: cursive

4. (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
5. (countable) 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.

   Hyponyms: screenplay, teleplay

6. (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

   Synonyms: batch file, macro, shell script

   Hyponyms: coffeescript, here-script, postscript

7. (psychology) Ellipsis of behavioral script; a sequence of actions in a given situation.
8. (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

   Synonyms: language script, writing system

9. (informal) Clipping of prescription. (for drugs or medicine)
   • 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

     She gave me a Bipolar II diagnosis and a script for epilepsy medicine that could be used off-label in cases like mine.

• scripture

script (third-person singular simple present scripts, present participle scripting, simple past and past participle scripted)

1. (transitive) To make or write a script.
2. (transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:

     Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.

• “script”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• crispt

Borrowed from English script.

• IPA^(key): /skrɪpt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: script
• Rhymes: -ɪpt

script n (plural scripts, diminutive scriptje n or scrippie n)

1. (art) script (written text of a dramatic performance)
2. (computing) script (sequential list of commands)

• scenario

Borrowed from English script. Doublet of écrit.

• IPA^(key): /skʁipt/

• Audio

  (file)

script m (plural scripts)

1. script (written dialogue for a play, film, etc.)

• “script”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• szkript

Borrowed from English script.

• IPA^(key): [ˈskript] (phonetic respelling: szkript)
• Hyphenation: script

script (plural scriptek)

1. (computing) script

• skript

Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).

• IPA^(key): /skrɪpt/

script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta or scriptene)

1. (computing) a script (list of commands)
2. (colloquial, cinematography) a script (written document containing dialogue)

script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scripter, definite plural scriptene)

1. (cinematography) a script supervisor

• scripte

• “script” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “script” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• skript

Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).

• IPA^(key): /skrɪpt/

script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta)

1. (computing) a script (list of commands)
2. (colloquial, cinematography) a script (written document containing dialogue)

script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scriptar, definite plural scriptane)

1. (cinematography) a script supervisor

• scripte

• “script” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “script”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Unadapted borrowing from English script. Doublet of escrito.

script m (plural scripts)

1. (acting) script (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)

   Synonym: roteiro

2. (computing) script (source code that is interpreted rather than compiled)

• escrito

Initially inherited from Latin scriptum as the past participle of scrie, which was later replaced by scris. The current meaning is borrowed from English script.

script n (plural scripturi)

1. script (of a film, play, show, etc.)

   Synonym: scenariu

• scriptic