script
Other forms: scripts; scripted; scripting
A script is a written version of a play or movie. If you're auditioning for a movie, you'll get the script to practice a scene or two.
Script comes from the Latin scrībĕre, meaning "to write," and all its meanings have to do with something written. Your handwriting is your script. The written version of what you're supposed to say, whether for a wedding toast or a play, is a script. And if you were feeling old-fashioned you could call the grocery list you just wrote a script. It's also a verb. You can script a play.
Definitions of script
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something written by hand
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synonyms:
hand, handwriting
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shorthand, stenography, tachygraphy
a method of writing rapidly
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cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand
rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
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calligraphy, chirography, penmanship
beautiful handwriting
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cacography, scratch, scrawl, scribble
poor handwriting
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miniscule, minuscule
a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
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copperplate
a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings
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italic
a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
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round hand
a clearly written style of longhand with large round curves
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chicken scratch
cramped or illegible handwriting
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squiggle
an illegible scrawl
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type of:
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writing
letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language
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a particular orthography or writing system
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Aramaic, Aramaic script
an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it
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Avestan
the script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written
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Brahmi
a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed
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Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script
a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
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Pahlavi
the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language
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Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
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uncial
a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries
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cuneiform
an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
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syllabary, syllabic script
a writing system whose characters represent syllables
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alphabet
a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
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Armenian, Armenian alphabet
a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written
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Babylonian
the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
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Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script
a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
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Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet
the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
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Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script
a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
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Greek alphabet
the alphabet used by ancient Greeks
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Cyrillic, Cyrillic alphabet
an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)
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Arabic alphabet
the alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu)
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phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet
an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
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finger alphabet, manual alphabet
an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions
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type of:
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orthography, writing system
a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
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a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
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synonyms:
book, playscript
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prompt copy, promptbook
the copy of the playscript used by the prompter
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continuity
a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot
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dialog, dialogue
the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
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libretto
the words of an opera or musical play
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scenario
an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)
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screenplay
a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets
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shooting script
the final detailed script for making a movie or TV program
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teleplay
a script adapted or written for television
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duologue
a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors
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type of:
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dramatic composition, dramatic work
a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.
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write a script for
Pronunciation
US
/skrɪpt/
UK
/skrɪpt/
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