script

A writing; a written document.

Noun

  1. A writing; a written document.

    Synonyms: cursive hand handwriting manuscript

  2. Written characters; style of writing.
    • But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? - 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
  3. Type made in imitation of handwriting.

    Synonyms: cursive

  4. An original instrument or document.
  5. 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.

    Synonyms: play

  6. A series of events with a predefined order and outcome.
    • I was following a social script that teaches women to build lives around money they don’t fully understand. - 2026 April 22, Jillian Sanders, “The Danger of Surrendering Your Financial Independence in a Relationship”,...
  7. A brief and simple program.
    • I wrote a Python script to put all the files into the right format.
  8. A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

    Synonyms: batch file macro shell script

  9. Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
  10. A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

    Synonyms: language script writing system

  11. Clipping of prescription (for drugs or medicine).
    • He located a doctor in Brooklyn who was a writing fool. This croaker would go three scripts a day for as high as thirty tablets a script. - 1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin...
    • Shit, he got the scripts for the cough / In the H, gotta hit Johnny for the frost, swerved off - 2014, “Don't Play”, performed by Travis Scott ft. Big Sean and The 1975:
    • She gave me a Bipolar II diagnosis and a script for epilepsy medicine that could be used off-label in cases like mine. - 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Latin scrīptum Old French escritbor. Middle English scrit English script From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).

Forms

scripts

Related

scripture

Derived

artificial script beat-script Bengali script bronze script clerical script clerkly script conscript constructed script cultural script Cyrillic script flip the script Fraser script grass script great seal script here-script Indic script Indus script inscript insular script Khitan large script Khitan small script large seal script Latin script lesser seal script

Verb

  1. To make or write a script.
  2. To devise, concoct, or contrive.
    • 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. - 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record...

Forms

scripts scripting scripted

Derived

script out