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Vinony

script

noun

  1. style of handwritten language
  2. set of symbols of a writing system
  3. dialogue and character directions for a work of fiction
  4. type of computer program
  5. document in education
  6. document describing the narrative and dialogue of a comic book in detail
  7. HTML element
L25460 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. write something for someone
L25461 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /skɹɪpt/ / /skɹəpt/ / /skɾipʈ/

noun

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. A writing; a written document.
  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. Type made in imitation of handwriting.
  4. An original instrument or document.
  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. 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. A brief and simple program.

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

  8. A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
  9. Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
  10. A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
  11. 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”

verb

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. To make or write a script.
  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.”