script

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   write a script for

   The playwright scripted the movie

2. 2
   noun

   Written characters; style of writing.

   1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman?

3. 3
   noun

   A brief and simple program.

   I wrote a Python script to put all the files into the right format.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   a particular orthography or writing system

7. 7
   noun

   something written by hand

8. 8
   noun

   a written version of a play or other dramatic composition

Etymology

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