script
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
script (countable and uncountable, plural scripts)
- (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.
- Synonyms: cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript
- Written characters; style of writing.
- (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
- Synonym: cursive
- (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
- (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
- (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
- (psychology) Ellipsis of behavioral script; a sequence of actions in a given situation.
- (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
- Synonyms: language script, writing system
- (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.
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- artificial script
- beat-script
- Bengali script
- clerical script
- clerkly script
- conscript
- constructed script
- cultural script
- flip the script
- Fraser script
- grass script
- great seal script
- here-script
- Indic script
- Indus script
- inscript
- large seal script
- Latin script
- lesser seal script
- love script
- oracle bone script
- Pollard script
- post script
- Qin script
- regular script
- retroscripting
- Roman script
- running script
- script doctor
- script editor
- scripting language
- script kiddie
- script kiddy
- script monkey
- scriptorium
- scriptwriter
- seal script
- small seal script
- spec script
- square script
- subscripting
- Sundanese script
- Tibetan script
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Verb edit
script (third-person singular simple present scripts, present participle scripting, simple past and past participle scripted)
- (transitive) To make or write a script.
- (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, , 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.
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References edit
- “script”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Noun edit
script n (plural scripts, diminutive scriptje n or scrippie n)
- (art) script (written text of a dramatic performance)
- (computing) script (sequential list of commands)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English script. Doublet of écrit.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
script m (plural scripts)
- script (written dialogue for a play, film, etc.)
Further reading edit
- “script”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
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Noun edit
script (plural scriptek)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | script | scriptek |
accusative | scriptet | scripteket |
dative | scriptnek | scripteknek |
instrumental | scripttel | scriptekkel |
causal-final | scriptért | scriptekért |
translative | scriptté | scriptekké |
terminative | scriptig | scriptekig |
essive-formal | scriptként | scriptekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | scriptben | scriptekben |
superessive | scripten | scripteken |
adessive | scriptnél | scripteknél |
illative | scriptbe | scriptekbe |
sublative | scriptre | scriptekre |
allative | scripthez | scriptekhez |
elative | scriptből | scriptekből |
delative | scriptről | scriptekről |
ablative | scripttől | scriptektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
scripté | scripteké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
scriptéi | scriptekéi |
Possessive forms of script | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | scriptem | scriptjeim |
2nd person sing. | scripted | scriptjeid |
3rd person sing. | scriptje | scriptjei |
1st person plural | scriptünk | scriptjeink |
2nd person plural | scriptetek | scriptjeitek |
3rd person plural | scriptjük | scriptjeik |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).
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Noun edit
script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta or scriptene)
- (computing) a script (list of commands)
- (colloquial, cinematography) a script (written document containing dialogue)
script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scripter, definite plural scriptene)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta)
- (computing) a script (list of commands)
- (colloquial, cinematography) a script (written document containing dialogue)
script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scriptar, definite plural scriptane)
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English script. Doublet of escrito.
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script m (plural scripts)
- (acting) script (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)
- Synonym: roteiro
- (computing) script (source code that is interpreted rather than compiled)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
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.
Noun edit
script n (plural scripturi)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) script | scriptul | (niște) scripturi | scripturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) script | scriptului | (unor) scripturi | scripturilor |
vocative | scriptule | scripturilor |
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kreybʰ-
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