26984 words

scripts

15 definitions • 17 examples
1
the words of a film, play, broadcast, or speech:

Examples:

script for Bruce Robinson wrote the script for "The Killing Fields".
2
the way people are expected to behave or the way a situation is expected to be:

Examples:

script for The Stones wrote the script for how a rock band should behave and misbehave.
The Earth is refusing to follow the script climatologists have written for it.
3
a set of letters used for writing a particular language:

Examples:

Arabic/Cyrillic/Roman script
4
writing, especially when well-formed:

Examples:

in script The invitation was written in beautiful italic script.
5
a type of language for programming computers that is used for finding and showing websites on the internet
6
an answer paper written by a student in an exam:

Examples:

Don't forget to write your name at the top of your script.
7
short for

Examples:

She went to her doctor who wrote her a script for antidepressants.
8
to write the words of a film, play, broadcast, or speech:

Examples:

He scripted the TV series "Homicide".
He's a very good actor, but the part was scripted for an older person.
9
a text that is written for a movie, play, broadcast, or speech:

Examples:

They gave me the script and I only had five lines.
10
writing, esp. writing done by hand in which the letters of a word are joined to each other:

Examples:

[ C ] a neat, legible script
11
Script is also the special set of letters used in writing a language:

Examples:

12
the text of a film, play, broadcast, or speech:

Examples:

He stayed up all night writing the script for his presentation.
13
a program or set of instructions that tells a computer to do something, or the language used to write these:

Examples:

Most scripts can be opened and edited using a basic text editor.
You have to write the formula in Java script.
14
to write the exact words that will be used in a speech, meeting, conversation, etc. rather than speaking in a natural unplanned way:

Examples:

The sales calls had been scripted.
15
to write a program or set of instructions that tells a computer to do something:

Examples:

I tried to script a difficult program.

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