script
English
/skɹɪpt/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) A writing; a written document.
- Written characters; style of writing.
- (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
- (countable) An original instrument or document.
- (countable) 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.
- (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
- (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English scrit borrowed from Old French escrit derived from Latin scriptum (that which is written, written thing).
Origin
Latin
scriptum
Gloss
that which is written, written thing
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ActionScript English
- Apple English
- AppleScript English
- LiveScript English
- URBI English
- VB English
- VBScript English
- action English
- afterscript English
- biscriptal English
- circumscript English
- circumscriptly English
- coscript English
- festschrift English
- forescript English
- live English
- microscript English
- miniscript English
- monoscriptal English
- multiscript English
- multiscriptal English
- multiscriptual English
- nonscriptable English
- play English
- playscript English
- retroscripting English
- scriptability English
- scriptable English
- scriptal English
- scripter English
- scripting English
- scriptless English
- scriptlessness English
- scriptlet English
- scriptlike English
- scripton English
- scriptwise English
- scriptwriter English
- scriptwriting English
- scripty English
- subscript English
- subscripted English
- tape English
- tapescript English
- telescript English
- type English
- typescript English
- uncircumscript English
- urbiscript English
- writer English
- writing English
- scriptum Latin
- scriptus Latin
- Abschrift German
- Aufschrift German
- Bilderschrift German
- Blockschrift German
- Brailleschrift German
- Brotschrift German
- Buchstabenschrift German
- Druckschrift German
- Durchschrift German
- Festschrift German
- Flugschrift German
- Frakturschrift German
- Geheimschrift German
- Handschrift German
- Hieroglyphenschrift German
- Himmelsschrift German
- Ideenschrift German
- Keilschrift German
- Knotenschrift German
- Kursivschrift German
- Kurzschrift German
- Lautschrift German
- Majuskelschrift German
- Minuskelschrift German
- Mitschrift German
- Niederschrift German
- Notenschrift German
- Runenschrift German
- Schmähschrift German
- Schreibschrift German
- Schrift German
- Schriftart German
- Schriftbild German
- Schriftdeutsch German
- Schriftgelehrte German
- Schriftgelehrter German
- Schriftgröße German
- Schriftleiter German
- Schriftleitung German
- Schriftrolle German
- Schriftsprache German
- Schriftstück German
- Schrifttum German
- Schriftzeichen German
- Schriftzug German
- Schrägschrift German
- Schönschrift German
- Silbenschrift German
- Skript German
- Skriptum German
- Sonntagsschrift German
- Sütterlinschrift German
- Umschrift German
- Urschrift German
- Verhandlungsschrift German
- Wortschrift German
- Zeitschrift German
- schriftlich German
- schriftlos German
- script Hungarian
- scripted Hungarian
- script Dutch, Flemish
- script French
- scripteur French
- шрифт Russian
- script Portuguese
- スクリプト Japanese
- scrit Middle English
- escrit Old French
- स्क्रिप्ट Hindi
- script Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- scrift Old High German
- iskrip Tagalog
- schrift Middle High German
- escrit Middle French
- VB
- type
- play
- live
- URBI
- tape
- Apple
- writer
- action
- scripty
- writing
- scriptal
- coscript
- VBScript
- scripter
- scripton
- scriptlet
- scripting
- subscript
- scriptlike
- urbiscript
- scriptable
- miniscript
- playscript
- biscriptal
- forescript
- scriptless
- scriptwise
- LiveScript
- tapescript
- telescript
- typescript
- multiscript
- AppleScript
- microscript
- afterscript
- subscripted
- festschrift
- circumscript
- monoscriptal
- ActionScript
- scriptwriter
- scriptwriting
- multiscriptal
- nonscriptable
- scriptability
- uncircumscript
- circumscriptly
- multiscriptual
- scriptlessness
- retroscripting