Script

script
    n 1: a written version of a play or other dramatic composition;
         used in preparing for a performance [syn: {script}, {book},
         {playscript}]
    2: something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting";
       "his hand was illegible" [syn: {handwriting}, {hand},
       {script}]
    3: a particular orthography or writing system
    v 1: write a script for; "The playwright scripted the movie"
    

Script \Script\, n. [OE. scrit, L. scriptum something written,
   fr. scribere, scriptum to write: cf. OF. escript, escrit, F.
   ['e]crit. See {Scribe}, and cf. {Scrip} a writing.]
   1. A writing; a written document. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   2. (Print.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
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   3. (Law) An original instrument or document.
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   4. Written characters; style of writing.
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SCRIPT

   1. An early system on the {IBM 702}.

   [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].

   2. A {real-time} language.

   ["A Communication Abstraction Mechanism and its Verification",
   N. Francez et al, Sci Comp Prog 6(1):35-88 (1986)].

   (1994-12-01)
    

script

   <language> A program written in a {scripting language}, but
   see {Ousterhout's dichotomy}.

   (1999-02-22)
    

SCRIPT, conv. The original or principal instrument, where there are part and 
counterpart. Vide Chirograph; Part, Rescript. 
    

211 Moby Thesaurus words for "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