script

noun

1. 1

   A writing; a written document.

2. 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?

3. 3

   Type made in imitation of handwriting.

4. 4

   An original instrument or document.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 7

   A brief and simple program.

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

8. 8

   A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

9. 9

   A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

10. 10

    Variant of behavioral scriptEllipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.

11. 11

    Variant of prescriptioninformalClipping 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.

    Shit, he got the scripts for the cough / In the H, gotta hit Johnny for the frost, swerved off

    She gave me a Bipolar II diagnosis and a script for epilepsy medicine that could be used off-label in cases like mine.

verb

1. 1

   To make or write a script.

2. 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.

Forms

plural

scripts

past tense

scripted

past participle

scripted

present participle

scripting

third person singular

scripts