Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense scripts, present participle scripting, past tense, past participle scripted
1. countable noun
The script of a play, film, or television programme is the written version of it.
Jenny's writing a film script.
Synonyms: text, lines, words, book More Synonyms of script
2. verb
The person who scripts a film or a radio or television play writes it.
The film is scripted and directed by Chris McQuarrie. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: write, draft, pen, compose More Synonyms of script
3. variable noun [usually adjective NOUN]
You can refer to a particular system of writing as a particular script.
...a text in the Malay language but written in Arabic script.
4. singular noun
If you say that something which has happened is not in the script, or that someone has not followed the script, you mean that something has happened which was not expected or intended to happen.
Losing was not in the script.
The game plan was right. We just didn't follow the script.
More Synonyms of script
script in British English
(skrɪpt)
noun
1.
handwriting as distinguished from print, esp cursive writing
2.
the letters, characters, or figures used in writing by hand
3.
any system or style of writing
4.
written copy for the use of performers in films and plays
5. law
a.
an original or principal document
b.
(esp in England) a will or codicil or the draft for one
6.
any of various typefaces that imitate handwriting
7. computing
a series of instructions that is executed by a computer program
8.
an answer paper in an examination
9. another word for scrip3
verb
10. (transitive)
to write a script for
Word origin
C14: from Latin scriptum something written, from scrībere to write
script in American English1
(skrɪpt)
noun
1.
a.
handwriting; written words, letters, or figures
b.
a style of handwriting; manner or method of forming letters or figures
c. Printing
a typeface that looks like handwriting, with the letters connected
see also cursive
2.
a written document; original manuscript
3.
the manuscript, or a copy of the text, of a stage, film, radio, or television show
verb transitive
4.
to write the script for (a film, etc.)
Word origin
ME < MFr escript < L scriptum < neut. of scriptus, pp. of scribere, to write: see scribe
script in American English2
1.
scriptural
2.
scripture
Examples of 'script' in a sentence
script
Its witty script covers the underlying problems of different cultures trying to live together in harmony.
The Sun (2012)
To import your script you just email it to your account at the app.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You can make a good script better in production but you can rarely save a bad script.
The Sun (2013)
Write yourself a script and vow to use it!
Lindenfield, Gael 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman (1989)
The first draft of the script takes about a month.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This shabby opportunism follows a script devised long before the election defeat.
The Sun (2010)
Such a threat might have come from a film script.
Geraghty, Tony The Bullet Catchers (1989)
It had a literary pedigree and a witty script.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They just have boring scripts and some hair gel.
The Sun (2014)
This actor has only just been handed the script and knows no more about the show than we do.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Pupils study the history of theatre, play scripts and playwrights.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There's no love of language in these scripts.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They send me their scripts and treatments to sell in Hollywood.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It's a little like rewriting the script of a play.
Mansfield, Patricia Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive? (1994)
The script's language is resolutely modern.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Yet in some strange way the rejection worked for my writing of the script, helping it to evolve into something deeper and more heartfelt.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We would have liked to study examination scripts but it turned out that the examination boards had, somewhat surprisingly, destroyed this evidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
script
British English: script NOUN
The script of a play, film, or television programme is the written version of it.
She's writing a film script.
American English: script
Brazilian Portuguese: roteiro
Chinese: 脚本
European Spanish: guión
French: scénario
German: Drehbuch
Italian: copione
Japanese: 台本
Korean: 대본
European Portuguese: roteiro
Latin American Spanish: guión
British English: script VERB
The person who scripts a film or a radio or television play writes it.
He scripted and directed both films.
American English: script
Brazilian Portuguese: escrever o script
Chinese: 写脚本
European Spanish: escribir el guión de
French: écrire le scénario de
German: das Drehbuch schreiben für
Italian: scrivere il copione di
Japanese: 脚本を書く
Korean: 대본을 쓰다
European Portuguese: escrever o guião
Latin American Spanish: escribir el guión de
All related terms of 'script'
film script
a script containing dialogue and directions for a film; a screenplay
Gothic script
denoting, relating to, or resembling the style of architecture that was used in W Europe from the 12th to the 16th centuries, characterized by the lancet arch , the ribbed vault , and the flying buttress
script doctor
one who revises or alters a script to improve it
script kiddie
a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
shooting script
written instructions indicating to the cameraman the order of shooting
examination script
a script with answers written on it by an examination candidate taking a written examination
Chinese translation of 'script'
script
(skrɪpt)
n
(c)[of play, film]剧(劇)本 (jùběn)
(c/u) (= writing) 文字体(體)系 (wénzì tǐxì)
1 (noun)
Definition
the text of a play, TV programme, or film for the use of performers
Jenny's writing a film script.
Synonyms
text
the text of Dr. Zuckermann's speech
lines
words
book
copy
dialogue
The play's dialogue is sharp and witty.
manuscript
libretto
the author of one or two opera librettos
2 (noun)
Definition
handwriting
She wrote the letter in an elegant script.
Synonyms
handwriting
The address was in Anna's handwriting.
writing
It's a little difficult to read your writing.
hand
written in the composer's own hand
letters
calligraphy
longhand
penmanship (formal)
(verb)
Definition
to write a script for
I scripted and directed both films.
Synonyms
write
She wrote articles for magazines in Paris.
draft
He drafted a standard letter.
pen
She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
compose
He started at once to compose a reply to her letter.
author
Additional synonyms
in the sense of compose
Definition
to create (a musical or literary work)
He started at once to compose a reply to her letter.
Synonyms
create,
write,
produce,
imagine,
frame,
invent,
devise,
contrive,
indite
in the sense of dialogue
Definition
a conversation in a literary or dramatic work
The play's dialogue is sharp and witty.
Synonyms
script,
conversation,
lines,
words,
text,
spoken part
in the sense of draft
Definition
to write a preliminary outline of a letter, book, or speech