scriptn.1adj.
/skrɪpt/, U.S. /skrɪp(t)/ A. n.1
I. A written document, and related senses.
1. A piece of writing; a written document, letter, note, etc. Also as a mass noun: that which is written; writing. Also figurative. Now rare. script of mart: see mart n.4
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society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > piece or quantity of
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M1899
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun]
i-writeOE
bookOE
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workOE
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composure?1606
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performance1665
literature1852
a1350 Life St. Alexius (Laud) l. 409 in F. J. Furnivall Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 62 In his hond he fond a skript [c1390 Vernon skrit; rhyme as tyd].
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 125 Ȝif [printed zif]..chartre of feffement, quyt cleyme, or other script be put forward in pledyng aȝens [printed azens] the pleyntiff [etc.].
?a1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (St. John's Cambr. L. 1) (1894) ii. l. 1130 She..seide script [a1413 Pierpont Morgan scryt] ne bille Ffor loue of god..Ne brynge me non.
1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1013/2 Bilney..neuer had any such bill, or script or scrolle in his hand to read, either softly, or apertly.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. 1129 He delivered unto them a script to this effect as followeth.
a1625 J. Fletcher Wife for Moneth i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggggv/1 Do you see this Sonnet? This loving Script? do you know from whence it came too?
1665 J. Eliot Commun. of Churches Pref. A few copies of this small script are printed.
1722 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 315 He delivered to me a Parchment Script..the words of which Script here follow.
1781 W. Pollard Let. 25 Feb. in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 383 I once more repeat, that any script of paper assuring me of your welfare will give me the greatest satisfaction.
1851 J. Iredell Rep. Supreme Court N. Carolina 11 6342 The other witness, Gates, deposed, that he was present when Fuller wrote the script.
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia viii. 237 Forgive this feeble script, which doth thee wrong, Measuring with little wit thy lofty Love.
1891 Harper's Mag. Mar. 534/2 A beardless face, full of the script of years.
1914 H. James Let. 30 Aug. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) vi. 295 I yearn for a small scrap of script from you.
1977 Daily Standard (Sikeston, Missouri) 21 June 2/5 Written beneath my bold directions ‘Photos Do Not Bend’ was a hasty script arguing, ‘Oh yes they do.’
2. Law.† a. The original of a legal document, of which there is a duplicate or counterpart. In quots. in collocation with rescript n. Obsolete. rare.
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1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. at Chirograph They made their Deeds of mutual Covenant in a Script and Rescript, or in a Part and Counter-part.
1843 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 2) II. 263/1 Covenants were formerly made in a script and rescript, or part and counterpart.
b. A will, codicil to a will, or written instructions for a will; (also) a document that may be used as evidence of the contents of a will that has been lost or destroyed.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will
witword?997
quideOE
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intestement1463
latter will1540
testimonialc1616
settlement1815
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test1890
1850 Notes Cases Eccl. & Maritime Courts 7 276 He declared that he opposed the Script C.., as being a pretended codicil to the will.
1885 W. J. Dixon Probate & Admin., Law & Pract. (ed. 2) 395 A fac-simile copy of the will, script, or other document,..containing the pencil writing, must also be filed.
1913 N.Y. Suppl. 141 717 The will, or propounded script,..has, on the other hand, been duly proved, and is entitled to probate.
1971 New Law. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 814/1 The plaintiff..must swear an affidavit..describing any testamentary script of the deceased person.
1998 K. Wood High Court 163 Any scripts in the defendant's custody must be annexed to the affidavit.
2008 N. Carolina Lawyers Weekly (Nexis) 17 Mar. Any other script purporting to be the decedent's will should be offered and its validity determined in the caveat proceeding.
3.
a. The written text of a play, film, television or radio programme, etc., typically including acting instructions, scene directions, and the like.play script, film script, movie script, television script, radio script; rehearsal script, shooting script, etc.: see the first element.
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society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > writing script > script
script1890
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > script
book1592
script1890
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > screenplay or script > [noun]
script1890
scenario1905
screenplay1920
treatment1928
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 June 1/2 Mr McCarthy has only just put the finishing touches to his script. But the new play may be expected, at any rate, a day or two after the 21st inst.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 13 May 10/1 Hearing of the success of the play from a friend, Macready wrote asking to see the 'script.
1911 Moving Picture News 18 Nov. 23/1 An unknown author writes a scenario. It may be impossible to film. But that writer has expended time, money and much anxiety on his beloved script.
1931 P. Dixon Radio Writing i. 5 Network regulations forbid mentioning the name of the author of a script.
1952 A. Huxley Let. 22 Mar. (1969) 643 I am just about to start work on the script of a film on Gandhi.
1982 J. Benedetti Stanislavski ii. 44 The creative actor fills out the script with his own experience.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Sept. 64/2 A few weeks before our meeting, I received a script in the mail, some 99 pages of typed dialogue and stage directions.
b. The written text of a speech, presentation, etc., prepared in advance to be read aloud by the speaker.
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1899 Western Mail (Cardiff) 23 June 5/8 Then followed the presentation of the freedom of the borough... The town-clerk..read the script.
1919 Manch. Guardian 20 Dec. 7/4 The Prince of Wales will have general approval for his confession of opinion against the reading of speeches, though..many politicians have confessed that it gave them a feeling of confidence to have the script at hand.
1989 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 28 Oct. 5 He wishes he had stuck to the script of his policy speech.
2005 K. Shephard Presenting at Conf., Seminars & Meetings iv. 77 Audiences like charismatic speakers that appear to know their subject well and do not read from a script.
c. Originally U.S. figurative. An intended or projected pattern of events; a plan or scenario. according to (the) script: as intended or expected; according to plan. In early use chiefly in sporting contexts.
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1928 Marion (Ohio) Star 16 Apr. 10/6 They are ringing the curfew on old Ty Cobb over in Philadelphia, which may be quite according to script with everybody except old Ty Cobb.
1954 Chicago Defender (National ed.) 23 Jan. 24/3 He had figured on disposing of the Windy City slugger in about eight rounds. But Bob pressed his attack,..so Ezzard had to rewrite the script.
1968 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Feb. 13 It's easy to think of a dozen different scripts for events of the next few weeks.
1972 Canberra Times 25 Nov. 36/8 Nothing went according to the script—Pakistan's top-order bats were woeful, its pace bowlers wonderful.
1992 USA Today (Nexis) 10 Mar. 1 a In a race that refuses to stick to its script, voters are constant.
2010 E. Moodie El Salvador in Aftermath of Peace 205 The surge of violence that followed was not in the script for peace.
d. Originally Psychology. A socially expected or accepted pattern of behaviour, spec. one that is culturally prescribed as appropriate to a person's gender or social group.to flip the script: see flip v. Additions.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > [noun] > culturally determined role
sex role1917
script1968
1968 ETC. June 175 All human sexual experience is scripted behavior. Without the proper elements of a script that defines the situation, names the actors, and plots the behavior, little is likely to happen... The scripts we bring to such [interpersonal] encounters are most typically non-sexual.
1979 Z. Luria & M. D. Rose Psychol. Human Sexuality iv. 111 Boys learn a different script from girls.
1989 S. J. Leonardi Dangerous by Degrees v. 115 Hilda, in her attempt to alter the romantic script prescribed for her life, alters as well Ralph's narrative.
1996 Law & Social Inq. 21 402 [They] develop traits such as independence, self-assertion, and persistence that deviate from the normative behavioral script of femininity.
2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Nov. (WSJ Mag.) 46/3 Traditional life scripts have broken down. Kids never leave the nest.
e. Originally Psychology. A person's mental representation of the typical sequence of events (and the people and things involved) in a frequently experienced situation, serving as a guide to dealing with and knowing how to behave in that situation. Cf. schema n. 1b.
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1975 R. C. Schank in D. G. Bobrow & A. Collins Representation & Understanding ix. 264 Some of the episodes which occur in memory serve to organize and make sense of new inputs. These episodic sequences we call scripts.
1982 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 66 155/2 To emphasize the importance of scripts, consider the uneasiness that one might feel when trying to apply a fast-food restaurant script in a three-star restaurant.
2002 R. White in R. Cross Vision for Sci. Educ. (2004) xiii. 170 Most of us..have a script for catching a bus, which includes knowing that some sort of sign indicates where to wait for the bus, knowing that on entry we have to pay a fare or show a pass, and knowing where it is socially acceptable to sit.
f. Computing. In artificial intelligence: a formalized description of a commonly occurring situation, typically detailing expected actions and stereotypical sequences of events, which is intended to assist comprehension (usually by a computer program) of textual descriptions of such a situation, esp. ones in which not all the details are made explicit.
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society > computing and information technology > [noun] > artificial intelligence > outline of situation
script1987
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > formalized description of event
script1987
1987 Austral. Personal Computer Dec. 131/3 The script also contains other information, such as what kinds of people or things are found in the restaurant, and what types of actions these people or things are allowed to do.
1996 J. Finlay & A. Dix Introd. Artific. Intelligence (1999) i. 25 It is this type of stereotypical knowledge that scripts attempt to capture, with the aim of allowing a computer to make similar inferences..to those we were able to make above.
2016 tr. M. Flasiński Introd. Artific. Intelligence vii. 99 A script can be defined as a structural representation which describes an event of a certain type in a generalized/stereotyped way.
4. An examination candidate's set of written answers; = examination paper n. (b) at examination n. Compounds 2.See also examination script n. at examination n. Compounds 2, exam script n. at exam n. Compounds 2.Not common in North American use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > an answer, response > in particular circumstances > for examination
script1900
1900 N. Wales Chron. 25 Aug. 8/5 ‘Many of the scripts,’ says the examiner, ‘were of a most intelligent, thoughtful, and independent order.’
1923 P. B. Ballard New Examiner i. 27 The man who sets an examination paper will ‘knock it off’ in an hour or two, but the man who reads the scripts will have to toil over them for days.
1969 Times 13 Dec. 9/4 Retention of candidates' scripts which fall near the grade borderlines.
2016 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 8 June 2,500 higher-level Junior Certificate maths and French scripts were re-marked.
5. Computing. A sequence of instructions or commands (typically stored in a text file) that are to be executed by a computer program, esp. in order to automate particular processes or tasks.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > set of instructions
routine1945
procedure1946
subroutinec1946
subprogramme1947
block1948
module1963
partition1971
script1978
1978 P. D. Lebling Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 751. 2 Complete FTP scripts may be found, if you are interested, on mtm-dm.
1988 ICL Techn. Jrnl. 6 167 The elementary User Interface Subsystem which currently exists is a UNIX shell script.
1997 Internet Mag. Jan. 116/1 Although cookies can be included in static HTML documents, they're most often generated on-the-fly by a CGI script.
2015 T. Dietrich FileMaker Pro 13 Absolute Beginner's Guide xiii. 219 When FileMaker reaches this step of the script, it enters Preview mode and then pauses until the user indicates that he wants to continue.
II. A type of writing or handwriting, and related senses.
6. Typography. Any of various typefaces or fonts which imitate the appearance of handwriting, esp. cursive handwriting; lettering in any of these typefaces. Cf. sense B. 1a.In quot. 1779 showing attributive use of the plural.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > others
script1779
Baskerville1802
Egyptian type (letters, figures)1855
hand lettering1864
Garamond1868
runic1869
outline1878
Bodoni type1880
hairline letter1888
bold-face1889
Cheltenham1910
in-line1923
slab serif1924
Bembo1930
Times New Roman1932
Times1957
manifolderc1961
Times Roman1963
1779 B. Franklin Let. 2 June in Papers (1992) XXIX. 599 The Scripts Letters..cost me double the Price of common Letters of The Same sizes.
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 751 Since 1820 the English letter founders have produced a variety of beautiful Scripts of different sizes.
1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 403/1 Nearly one hundred varieties of script are now made in the United States.
1921 Amer. Printer 20 May 46/1 Most printers..compose funeral notice cards in script.
2009 L. S. King Photoshop CS4 535 Casual scripts are designed to look as though they were drawn (quickly) by hand. Formal scripts have carefully crafted strokes..like cursive handwriting.
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a. Handwriting, a person's style of handwriting (frequently with modifier, as clear, illegible, etc.). Also: the action or process of writing by hand, as distinguished from printing.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun]
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autography1787
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calligraph1831
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scription1846
hand lettering1864
back-hand1885
1834 N.-Y. Mirror 6 Dec. 183/3 We have sundry professors of penmanship, who pledge themselves to convert the most appalling chirography into a neat, beautiful and most legible script.
1860 S. S. Haldeman Analyt. Orthogr. iii. 25 Script and print are essentially different in this, that as facility in execution must be a primary object in writing, the most complicated character can be printed with the same ease as the simplest one.
1923 Mod. Philol. 21 205 The capitals..and many of the smaller letters are those characteristic of what we now know to be his script.
1950 M. L. Coit John C. Calhoun xxii. 373 The bulky letters..addressed in Anna Maria's angular, illegible script.
1979 E. Eisenstein Printing Press as Agent of Change (1980) i. 24 The shift from script to print affected methods of record-keeping.
2013 Guardian (Nexis) 6 June 37 His Whitehall memos and minutes were well known for their fine, clear script.
b. A style of handwriting resembling print in using simple unjoined letterforms, esp. as taught to young children before they learn cursive writing; = print script n. at print n. and adj.2 Compounds 2. Cf. sense B. 2.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > resembling print
print hand1676
print-work1786
print letters1800
script1920
print script1922
1920 Times of India 3 June 8/4 There is plenty of individuality in formed adult script writing; but bank authorities agree that ‘script’ is much more easily forged than running hand.
1937 R. Tanner Lettering for Children 9 A..more profitable method is..to use the infants' school script to form a simple running italic hand.
1966 D. E. M. Gardner Exper. & Trad. in Primary Schools iv. 156 This scale shows specimens of children's writing in script and also in cursive hand.
1995 E. Thomas in D. Thomas Teachers' Stories ii. 32 These children were being taught to write ‘joined-up’ before they had written in script, which I thought was crazy.
8. A system of writing using a particular alphabet. Frequently with modifier, as Latin, Greek, Arabic, etc.
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society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun]
script1880
1880 Amer. Antiquarian 2 318 The position of the Cypriote language, as transmitted to us in the peculiar monumental script called epichoric Cypriote, among the other languages of antiquity has been a matter of doubt.
1883 I. Taylor Alphabet I. 268 Both scripts [sc. the ancient alphabet of Israel and the Aramean alphabet] were probably employed concurrently for a considerable period.
1909 Expositor May 437 Recent excavation has carried the history of the use of the Babylonian script in Palestine a little further.
1959 V. Cronin Pearl to India vi. 86 Grantham was not, as Europeans thought, a name for Sanskrit, but merely the angular script evolved by the Tamils to write Sanskrit.
2003 H. Wiese Numbers, Lang., & Human Mind vii. 219 This script goes from left to right (hence like Latin, but unlike Arabic script).
B. adj. (chiefly attributive).Some early examples may represent attributive use of the noun.
1.
a. Typography. Of a typeface, font, or letterform: having the appearance of handwriting, esp. cursive handwriting. Cf. sense A. 6.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > others
modern1764
script1782
Caxtonian1811
Porsonian1813
antique type?1817
Aldine1837
Scotch1847
old-face1859
Times1860
old-faced1863
Fell type1883
Fournier1902
monotype1910
Goudy1933
monoline1962
slab serif1970
monospaced1972
1782 Gen. Advertiser 29 Apr. (advt.) The large and extensive Printing Type Foundery of the late ingenious Mr John James... Comprehending a great variety of Punches and Matrices, of the Hebrew,..Italic, Saxon, Old English, Hibernian, Script,..and other Characters.
1804 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 28 Nov. (advt.) Blank Deeds, Printed on handsome Script type, For Sale at this Office.
1893 Brit. Printer Nov. 398/1 The main idea of variety explains the adoption of the round, the bastard, and the script style of face.
1953 A. E. Burke Archit. Lettering Plans & Ornamental Design x. 156 A store front is shown with..the name ‘Restaurant’ in a type of script lettering that is almost handwriting.
2005 L. Kent Scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements ii. 16 Script typefaces have a handwritten look... One large script capital letter at the beginning of a paragraph or sentence..can evoke beauty and elegance.
b. Of writing or letterforms: written by hand; spec. cursive.
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1833 New-Hampsh. Statesman 20 Apr. The system [of chirography]..recognizes the principle of construction for the form and fashion of every character in script letters.
1884 Indiana School Jrnl. Nov. 637 Shall the printed or script forms of these words be first taught?
1990 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 19 June b4 A method that allows computers to recognize overlapping handwritten letters, a step on the road toward computers that understand script handwriting.
2002 S. Alexander 10-Minute Magic Spells 170 The letters can be written..in any way you choose. Use uppercase or lowercase letters, printed or script.
c. Designating any of various systems of shorthand using symbols which are similar to longhand characters in appearance and formation; of or relating to any of such systems.
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society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [adjective] > systems of
phonographic1840
Pitman1869
phraseographic1881
script1882
Pitmanic1883
1882 Sci Rev. & Sci. & Lit. Rev. 7 Feb. 21/1 M. Guénin..ascribed the origins of the ‘script’ system, in which all the characters slope in the direction of those of the common running hand, to Roe.
1888 Science Victorious 7 Shorthand constructed on the Script or one-slope principle.
1919 Stenographer May 134/1 Any system of shorthand may be regarded as geometric, script, grafic or cursive.
1992 Los Angeles Times 27 Dec. (Westside ed.) j3/4 (advt.) Beverly Hills Adult School. Script Shorthand. Beginning. Alphabetic shorthand system based on abbreviated writing. No symbols are involved.
2. Designating a style of handwriting resembling print in using simple unjoined letterforms; opposed to cursive. Cf. sense A. 7b.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > others
bastard1524
secretary1571
Gothical1612
Gothicc1660
Longobardic1677
Lombardic1697
Langobardic1724
longhand1729
rustic1768
Lombard1833
Carlovingian1853
mogigraphic1857
Carolingian1881
Beneventan1882
hand-printed1882
insular1908
script1920
1920 Times of India 3 June 8/4 There is plenty of individuality in formed adult script writing; but bank authorities agree that ‘script’ is much more easily forged than running hand, although they have for some time accepted ‘script’ signatures.
1938 Scotsman 2 Aug. 10/3 These [facsimiles]..allow readers further to differentiate between the script-handwriting of Charlotte and the more artistic calligraphy of Branwell.
2015 G. Marzinotto et al. in S. Battiato et al. Adv. Concepts for Intelligent Vision Syst. 438 Men tend to use mixed cursive and script handwriting.
Compounds
C1. General attributive and objective (in sense A. 3a).
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1940 Washington Post 7 June 19/2 Whenever a producer encounters script trouble, he sends for Oppenheimer.
1951 Manch. Guardian 30 Oct. 4/5 He looks for the future to..the combined talents of writers and producers, and to a trained and expert script unit.
1961 E. Wilson Shaw on Shakespeare 255 Shaw denounced script cuts and productional schemes which distorted the plays.
1981 R. M. Bramson Coping with Difficult People 113 A month ago I gave him some script revisions.
1987 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 19 Dec. There's nothing wrong with Fran Of Fundy that a ruthless script edit couldn't have helped; pared down to one episode, it would be much improved.
1989 Time 6 Nov. 71/2 Guber's nose for good script ideas..meshed with Peters' hustle and tenacity.
1992 N.Y. Times 19 July ii. 12/1 Evenings begin with script readings or screenings of one of the advisers' movies.
1996 Guardian 18 Sept. ii. 12/2 The dramaturg records all the improvisations on a laptop computer and distributes script pages when scenes are set.
2004 P. Biskind Down & Dirty Pictures ix. 294 A bigger audience would necessitate script changes to broaden the film's appeal.
C2.
script approval n. Film and Television the rights to accept or reject a particular version of a script.
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1941 Hollywood Feb. 37/1 Raft..demands script approval of everything he does.
1963 Boxoffice 22 Apr. 16/2 Script approval was obtained from Disney before the deal was concluded.
2004 P. C. Marcello G. Steinem xii. 149 Part of her deal included script approval. She wanted to be sure the movie version of what happened did not deviate too far from the reality.
script clerk n. †(a) a clerk responsible for the written records of a company (obsolete); (b) Film and Television a secretarial assistant in a film or television crew whose responsibilities include keeping a detailed record of what happens during filming sessions as compared with the shooting script; (sometimes) spec. = script supervisor n. (b).
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society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > people involved in putting on broadcast
script clerk1867
editor1881
programme builder1898
narrowcaster1930
story editor1930
sponsor1931
programme controller1934
scripter1936
lighting1956
producer1961
outside broadcaster1971
sound1972
programmer1978
1867 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Plaindealer 15 Jan. The employees of the company are as follows:..R. E. Foote, script clerk.
1906 Black Diamond 8 Sept. 24/2 H. W. Graham, who has been chief bookkeeper.., has been succeeded by Mr. Bobbitt, who has been script clerk.
1921 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 2 Jan. 6/2 The following people are always to be found on the set: All the players..the director, the assistant director..the company secretary or script clerk, and occasionally, the scenario writer.
1988 S. Ulmer in G. W. Mank B. Lugosi & B. Karloff: Expanded Story of Haunting Collaboration (2009) xiii. 154 In 1933, I..worked at Universal as a script clerk (we're called ‘script supervisors’ today!).
2014 Variety 5 Mar. 66/2 Bole began his professional life as a script clerk, advancing to script supervisor..before breaking into directing.
script conference n. a conference held to determine the development or implementation of the script of a film, programme, etc.
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1933 Washington Post 13 Apr. 15/2 ‘We'll have to revamp tonight's script and maybe lots more.’.. Until daylight this strangest of all script conferences carried on.
1950 ‘E. Crispin’ Frequent Hearses iv. 35 It's a role which gets more and more etiolated..as one script conference follows another.
1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final xvii. 182 In a script conference the director is in the position of defending his vision against four or five people who are attacking it.
script consultant n. = script doctor n.
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1946 Daily Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 10 Feb. 9/2 Six men and seven women make up the play's cast... Script consultant is Dr. E. P. Conkle, professor of drama.
1968 S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ i. v. 70 The script consultant's job is primarily one of rewriting scripts.
2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling lii. 321 If she ever needs a freelance script consultant, I'd be happy to fly out to her San Fernando office and tidy up her plotlines.
script doctor n. a person employed to revise and improve other writers' scripts, esp. film screenplays.
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1931 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 Dec. 5/3 It is the script reader's business to suggest changes... The author objects to the result, and naturally the producer, knowing nothing else to do, calls in another script doctor.
1987 B. A. Powe Ice Eaters i. vi. 35 ‘I thought it was my best book.’ ‘It is. From a literary POV.’ ‘A what?’ ‘Point of view. A film expression. I used to be a script doctor, y'know.’
2007 Big Issue 8 Jan. 16/1 He's envious of Hollywood script doctors, earning $250,000 a week for a screenplay ‘polish’.
script-doctoring n. the revision and improvement of an existing script, esp. a film screenplay, by another writer; the work of a script doctor.
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1940 Washington Post 7 June 19/2 Whenever a producer encounters script trouble, he sends for Oppenheimer. There are many such script-doctoring assignments.
1989 A. Burgess in Observer 2 July 44/2 He [sc. William Faulkner] sold himself into Hollywood slavery,..showing little talent for anything except minimal script-doctoring.
2007 K. Morgan Death by Sudoku vii. 69 He made a living..doing script doctoring for movie producers who specialized in direct-to-video product.
script-edit v. transitive to edit the script of (a film, television series, etc.).
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1968 Punch 13 Nov. 684/2 I'm script-editing a marvellous new television serial.
1990 Canberra Times 2 Dec. 24/8 She also script-edited Return Home.
2002 T. Gates Scenario 39 I had already been working in television for a while and had devised and script-edited a series of my own.
script editing n. the action or process of editing the script of (a film, television series, etc.).
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1914 Variety 6 Feb. 22/1 Brandon..has turned her attention to vaudeville writing in addition to her script editing.
1980 Financial Times 9 Jan. 13/4 Chance of a Lifetime..seemed to need script editing to..strengthen character.
2005 J. A. Wright Animation Writing & Devel. xiv. 203 It's better to write a little too long and cut to tighten than not to write enough. Save the script editing until the end.
script editor n. a person who edits the script of (a film, television series, etc.).
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1912 Moving Picture News 6 July 18/1 Script editors are pointing out that many of the plots turned in are better fitted for magazine stories than for pictureplays.
1912 Moving Picture News 6 July 18/1 Script editors are pointing out that many of the plots turned in are better fitted for magazine stories than for pictureplays.
1974 Radio Times 14 Mar. 33/4 A comedy series..Script editor John Chapman.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama iii. 76 Writers..who tried to make a living by writing for television, and who worked in a more or less collaborative way with directors, producers, and even lowly script editors.
script girl n. Film and Television a female script clerk (script clerk n. (b)) or script supervisor (script supervisor n. (b)).Such positions were formerly often filled by women, hence the use of gender-specific terms (cf. continuity girl n. at continuity n. Compounds 2); gender-neutral terms are now preferred.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > others involved in filming
director of photography1916
grip1918
continuity writer1921
script girl1922
gaffer1926
production manager1927
best boy1931
production assistant1932
continuity girl1933
titler1933
clapper-boy1937
AD1957
1922 Boston Sunday Globe 24 Sept. 54/6 The scenes are directed from the script girl's records instead of from the original scenario.
1980 L. St. Clair Obsessions v. 110 The..script girl..dashed into Mimeo with a stack of scripts.
2006 J. Becker Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking 155 A good script supervisor (formerly known as the continuity girl or script girl) is a real joy to have around.
script kiddy n. (chiefly in form script kiddie) Computing slang (depreciative) an unsophisticated or unskilled hacker who is largely reliant upon computer scripts and applications produced by other hackers.
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1996 Phoenix, AZ 2600 Meeting Friday June 7 in alt.2600 (Usenet newsgroup) 4 June From the elite hacker..to the dufus script kiddie,..come one, come all and hang with us.
1999 Guardian 28 Jan. (Online section) 5/1 Entry-level hackers are script kiddies, newbies and cyber-punks.
2001 Independent 13 Aug. ii. 9/2 Code Red and its recent variants are not the usual ‘script kiddy’ nuisances: somebody with time and serious skills has cooked up these puppies.
2017 @JaneDenton_CA 16 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Was he actually a hacker or just a script kiddie using one of the tools on the darknet?
script language n. (a) a conventional or standardized form of a language used in writing (now rare); (b) a computer language designed or regarded as being particularly suitable for writing scripts (see sense A. 5).
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1895 Catholic World Feb. 695 Acquiring a knowledge of this script-language must have been equivalent to learning from three to five of our modern languages.
1944 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 30 126 Script language, on the other hand, is a derivative of spoken language, a simple translation of the latter into a system of signs.
1985 File Xfer Utility Sought in net.micro.pc (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Apr. Tango has a simple script language that allows automatic dialup and login, and whatever other automatic actions you would like.
2002 D. Huberty in D. Meyerhoff et al. Software Quality & Software Testing in Internet Times ii. 109 Script languages such as JavaScript and VB Script (Visual Basic Script) also play an important role in web-based applications.
2009 S. L. Sanders Invention Hebrew (2011) Introd. 6 Local kings sponsored monumental inscriptions in West Semitic..written in their own distinctive script-languages.
script lichen n. any of several crust-forming lichens of the genus Graphis or (more widely) the family Graphidaceae, whose fruiting bodies (apothecia) form irregular patterns thought to resemble scribbles or writing.Also (esp. formerly) called letter lichen, scripture wort.
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1947 G. G. Nearing Lichen Bk. Index 628 Brown Script Lichens... Black Script Lichen.
1964 Conservationist Dec. 30/3 Two crustose lichens not rare on the smooth bark of branches are the common script lichen (Graphis scripta) on deciduous trees, especially maple, and the green needle lichen (Bacidia chlorococca) on branches of conifers.
1995 School Sci. Rev. June 17/1 Script lichens..look like strange, black writing on the tree.
2015 Berwick Advertiser (Nexis) 29 May There are about 20 species of script lichen confined to the Atlantic woodlands.
script reader n. a person employed by a theatre, film studio, etc., to read scripts offered for production.
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1912 Moving Picture News 31 Aug. 20/1 The experiences of the script readers in this contest should be interesting and..highly instructive to the pictureplaywright.
1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 78 A number of specialist script-readers and adapters.
2009 E. Grove Raindance Writers' Lab (ed. 2) i. 2 My screenwriting training began as a script reader. I started reading scripts for free and wrote up a five-page critique on dialogue, characterization, plot, structure, and writing style.
script supervisor n. Film and Television (a) a person whose job is to supervise the selection, editing, etc., of film or television scripts (now rare); (b) a member of a film or television crew who is responsible for maintaining continuity between shots or scenes and documenting any changes to the shooting script (also called continuity supervisor).
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1927 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 9 Jan. 9/7 Many of the ‘conferences’ one hears so much about between director and author or production chief or script supervisor are held over the glasses and with the sweeties sitting in.
1946 Hollywood Q. 1 331/2 It became increasingly necessary that one person should be responsible..for noting the condition of the actor's dress, the condition of the set, and the all-important condition of matching action. The person on the set whose job it has become to keep this record is the script supervisor.
1965 B.B.C. Handbk. 203 All television scripts should be submitted to: Script Supervisor, Television, BBC Television Centre.
2011 J. J. Tomaric Filmmaking vii. 409 The editor's ability to create this seamless feel is often dictated by the quality of the footage shot, the script supervisor's attention to continuity, and your preplanning.
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scriptn.2
/skrɪpt/, U.S. /skrɪp(t)/ Share certificates; provisional share certificates; shares. Cf. scrip n.4 1.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > certificates
trust certificate1720
scrip?1734
script1768
savings certificate1842
stock certificate1863
PINC1986
property income certificate1986
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 374 The Bank of England give no interest upon their notes, whereas the Bank of the Universe improve what we have lying there to immense advantage, far beyond what could be made in Script by any Jew or clerk in the secretary office let into secrets.
1834 J. B. Purcell in Catholic Hist. Rev. (Washington) (1919) V. 245 The City Clerk paid me today, in Script, as they term it.
1885 11th Semi-Ann. Rep. Railroad Comm. Georgia 9 If no script had been issued upon his share, the holder would be entitled to claim eight dollars.
1955 Financial Times 21 Mar. 8/6 The stockbroker's form provides cover in respect of certificates, bonds, script or notes which they may handle.
2017 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 22 Nov. 44 Shareholders are being offered script in an unlisted entity.
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script certificate n. a provisional share certificate; a certificate for a fractional share; = scrip certificate n. at scrip n.4 Compounds 2.
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1803 Gaz. U.S. (Philadelphia) 13 July The script certificates are directed to be delivered to the stockholders at any time.
1948 Accounting Rev. 23 390/2 Script certificates in amounts aggregating one or more shares may be exchanged for stock certificates.
2000 Business Wire (Nexis) 28 July The Corporation shall issue..in respect of such fractions a script certificate transferable by delivery entitling the holder thereof.
script issue n. an issue of extra shares to existing shareholders, in proportion to the shares already held; = scrip issue n. (b) at scrip n.4 Compounds 2.
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1862 Boston Daily Advertiser 11 Feb. Your Committee would recommend only the payment of Six Per Cent. on the Script issues of the Company.
1954 Irish Times 18 Aug. 8/2 Shareholders are..to receive a script issue on a ‘1-for-4’ basis.
2017 A. Higham et al. Project Finance for Constr. xi. 380 Script issues do not raise new money: a company simply gives shareholders more shares in proportion to their existing holdings.
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scriptn.3
/skrɪpt/, U.S. /skrɪp(t)/ colloquial.
A doctor's prescription, spec. one for narcotic drugs. Cf. scrip n.5
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the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > prescription or recipe
receipta1398
recipe1533
billa1535
prescription1568
prescript1583
physic-bill1614
script1887
Rx1911
scrip1917
1887 Chemist & Druggist 19 Mar. 370/2 Pharmacist..sends a prescription.., signed by a well-known lady physician...‘What has pharmacy descended to; or what is the use of a Pharmacopœia when such a “script” as this is brought to us?’
1916 Sydney Morning Herald 7 Jan. 6/1 (advt.) Our prescription dept...while making up strictly in accord with your physicians' script, does not charge fancy prices.
1922 E. F. Murphy Black Candle xv. 253 A certain professional he-wolf..sold from 100 to 2,600 prescriptions a week... Some of these ‘scripts’ called for as much as 500 grains of heroin or morphine at one time.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie iii. 40 I got a codeine script from an old doctor by putting down a story about migraine headaches.
1980 J. Winchester Solitary Man xiv. 136 He completed the script and handed it across the desk.
2017 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 4 Mar. 7 As soon as you came off your methadone script, you got back into drugs and your life went downhill rapidly.
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scriptv.
/skrɪpt/, U.S. /skrɪp(t)/ 1. transitive. To write (something) by hand. Somewhat rare.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > write with own hand
manuscribe1649
script1834
handwrite1871
autograph1883
1834 Manch. Times & Gaz. 27 Dec. There lay Sir Robert Peel's letter, and it had been scripted in characters of blood.
1933 W. E. Orchard From Faith to Faith vii. 137 All our service books were gradually scripted and illuminated.
2012 T. P. Soon tr. H. Yung in tr. Diary J. Sung Foreword p. xv They [sc. the diaries] were scripted in the small, but neat and beautiful, handwriting of the man himself.
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a. transitive. To write a script for (a film, television or radio programme, play, etc.). Also intransitive.
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society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > put on or produce broadcast [verb (transitive)] > write script
script1931
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > screenplay or script > [verb (transitive)] > write script or scenario
scenarioize1914
scenarize1915
script1931
1931 Variety 24 Nov. 6/2 ‘Royal Road to Romance’, by Richard Halliburton, which was purchased by Fox two years ago, is suddenly being scripted by Dwight Cummings.
1940 Writer's Jrnl. Oct. 8/1 Charles Martin is again scripting for radio.
1960 K. Amis New Maps of Hell (1961) iii. 67 A British writer who has since scripted two rather..horrific science-fiction films.
1990 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 10 Feb. Maza..has since worked extensively as an actor..as well as directing, producing and scripting plays such as The Keepers, which was produced by Mainstreet Theatre Company.
2005 Variety 14 Feb. 28/3 Current hits include ‘Shameless’, a subversive blue-collar drama scripted by the highly rated Paul Abbott.
b. transitive. To adapt (a novel, story, etc.) into a script or screenplay.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [verb (transitive)] > adapt into film
filmize1911
cinematize1914
script1936
adapt1952
to open up1970
to open out1981
1936 Life & Lett. Today 14 183 Dallas Bower has plenty of plans. One of these is for scripting parts of The Dynasts.
1974 J. Wainwright Hard Hit 17 It must be hell scripting a book like that for the screen.
2012 India Abroad (N.Y.) 24 Aug. a68 The Oscarwinning screenplay writer Eric Roth..scripted the novel Shantaram to be directed by Mira Nair.
c. transitive. To write (a scene, character, section of dialogue, etc.) as part of a script or screenplay; spec. to write (a character's part) in a particular way or for a particular actor.
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1947 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 4/7 The part with Spencer Tracy was originally scripted for Jennifer.
1958 Oxf. Mag. 6 Mar. 354 There are two bit parts..which have been scripted with far more thought than parts of that size usually receive.
1971 Sight & Sound Summer 120/1 About half of their dialogue was scripted and the rest was worked out much later.
2004 J. Bartimole Irish Heroes & Heroines of Amer. xc. 178 Whenever you see Susan Sarandon in a movie, it seems as if the screenwriters scripted the role especially for her.
3. transitive. To plan or arrange in detail (an event, series of events, etc.). Cf. script n.1 3c.
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1966 Washington Post 18 Feb. (Sports section) d1/1 The events leading up to Wednesday's Everglades could not have been better scripted by promoters eager to fill a race track full of fans.
1977 O. Schell China (1978) i. 22 And then, as if scripted by my own thoughts, a European woman walks through this flow of Chinese faces.
1996 ABC News (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 11 Aug. This convention, as much as any in history, has been meticulously scripted by the Republicans.
2012 P. Druckerman Bringing up Bébé ii. 31 Eric still can't believe how Jennifer wanted to script the delivery. ‘She wanted to give birth on a balloon, give birth in a bath,’ he recalls.
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