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script

noun
/skɹɪpt/CA/skɹəpt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Latin scrīptum Old French escritbor. Middle English scrit English script From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).

  1. derived from scriptum
  2. derived from escrit
  3. inherited from scrit

Definitions

  1. A writing

    A writing; a written document.

  2. Written characters

    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. Type made in imitation of handwriting.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. An original instrument or document.

    2. The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama

      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.

    3. 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.

    4. A brief and simple program.

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

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

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

    6. Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.

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

    8. 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.
      • 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.

    9. To make or write a script.

    10. 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.

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Derived

artificial script, beat-script, Bengali script, bronze script, clerical script, clerkly script, conscript, constructed script, cultural script, Cyrillic script, flip the script, Fraser script, grass script, great seal script, here-script, Indic script, Indus script, inscript, insular script, Khitan large script, Khitan small script, large seal script, Latin script, lesser seal script, love script, oracle bone script, Pollard script, post script, prompt script, Qin script, regular script, retroscripting, Roman script, running script, script doctor, script editor, script fill, scripting language, script kiddie, script kiddy · +11 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at script. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at script. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at script

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA