Script

Definitions

1. A writing; a written document.
   countable
2. Written characters; style of writing.
   countable, uncountable
3. Type made in imitation of handwriting.
   countable, uncountable
4. An original instrument or document.
   countable
5. 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.
   countable
6. A brief and simple program.
   countable, uncountable
7. A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
   countable, uncountable
8. Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
9. A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
   countable, uncountable
10. Clipping of prescription (for drugs or medicine).
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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

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

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