script
- See Wiktionary:Scripts for information about scripts on Wiktionary.
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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) A behavioral script; 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) Short for prescription. (for drugs or medicine)
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TranslationsEdit
writing; written document
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written characters, style of writing
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type made in imitation of handwriting
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(law) an original instrument or document
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text of the dialogue and action for a drama
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(computing) procedure or program
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(psychology) sequence of actions
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a system of writing
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VerbEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
to make or write a script
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ReferencesEdit
- script in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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DutchEdit
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NounEdit
script n (plural scripts, diminutive scriptje n)
- script (written text of a dramatic performance)
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English script. Doublet of écrit.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
script m (plural scripts)
- script (written dialogue for a play, film, etc.)
Further readingEdit
- “script”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
HungarianEdit
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NounEdit
script (plural scriptek)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 BokmålEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 NynorskEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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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PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English script. Doublet of escrito.
NounEdit
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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RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
NounEdit
script n (plural scripturi)
- script (of a film, play, show, etc.)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of script
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||