script

plural scripts

1. countableA writing; a written document.

   Synonyms: cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript

2. countableuncountableWritten 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?

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

3. countableuncountablemediaType made in imitation of handwriting.

   Synonyms: cursive

4. countablelawAn original instrument or document.
5. countableThe 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.

   Synonyms: play

6. broadlycountableuncountableA 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.

   2026 April 22, Jillian Sanders, “The Danger of Surrendering Your Financial Independence in a Relationship”, in TIME, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2026

7. countableuncountablecomputingA brief and simple program.

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

8. countableuncountablecomputingA file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

   Synonyms: batch file, macro, shell script

9. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountablehuman sciencesEllipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
10. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

    Synonyms: language script, writing system

11. abbreviationclippingcountableinformaluncountableClipping of prescription (for drugs or medicine).

    Shit, he got the scripts for the cough / In the H, gotta hit Johnny for the frost, swerved off

    2014, “Don't Play”, performed by Travis Scott ft. Big Sean and The 1975

    2 more examples

    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.

    1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 20

    She gave me a Bipolar II diagnosis and a script for epilepsy medicine that could be used off-label in cases like mine.

    2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN

present singular third person scripts · participle present scripting · participle past scripted · past scripted

1. transitiveTo make or write a script.
2. transitiveTo 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.

   2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487