Script

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Script, n. [OE. scrit, L. scriptum something written, fr. scribere, scriptum to write: cf. OF. escript, escrit, F. écrit. See Scribe, and cf. Scrip a writing.].

•  A writing; a written document.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Type made in imitation of handwriting.  [1913 Webster]
•  An original instrument or document.  [1913 Webster]
•  Written characters; style of writing.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Script, n. & v.
--n.
1 handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.
2 type imitating handwriting.
3 an alphabet or system of writing (the Russian script).
4 the text of a play, film, or broadcast.
5 an examinee's set of written answers.
6 Law an original document as distinct from a copy.
--v.tr. write a script for (a film etc.).

Etymology

ME, = thing written, f. OF escri(p)t f. L scriptum, neut. past part. of scribere write

THESAURUS

Script

IPA, ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, alphabet, alphabetics, arrange, art, article, ascender, autograph, autography, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, blank, blueprint, body, book, brainchild, calligraphy, cap, capital, case, charactering, characterization, chart, chirograph, chirography, choreography, composition, computer printout, configure, continuity, conventional representation, copy, counter, create, cue, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, descender, design, diagram, docket, document, dossier, draft, drama, drawing, edited version, em, en, engrossment, essay, exemplification, face, fair copy, fat-faced type, feet, fiction, figuration, file, final draft, finished version, first draft, fist, flimsy, font, form, futhark, graphanalysis, graphemics, graphology, graphometry, groove, hand, handwriting, hieroglyphic, holograph, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, instrument, italic, lay out, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, letter, letters, libretto, ligature, limning, lines, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, logogram, logograph, logotype, lower case, lucubration, majuscule, manuscript, map, matter, minuscule, musical notation, nick, nonfiction, notation, official document, opus, order, organize, original, paleography, paper, papers, parchment, pattern, pen, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, personal file, pi, pica, pictogram, picturization, piece, piece of writing, plan, play, playbook, poem, point, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, prepare, presentment, print, printed matter, printing, printout, production, projection, reading matter, realization, recension, rendering, rendition, representation, roll, roman, runic alphabet, sans serif, scenario, scene plot, schema, score, screed, scrip, scription, scrive, scroll, second draft, shank, shooting script, shoulder, side, small cap, small capital, stamp, stem, stylography, syllabary, symbol, tablature, teleplay, text, the written word, transcript, transcription, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, typescript, upper case, version, work, writ, write, writing, writing system

ROGET THESAURUS

Script

Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.