script

Noun
  1. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition;
    Used in preparing for a performance (synset 107023062)
    is a type of: dramatic composition, dramatic work - a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.
    subtypes:
    • prompt copy, promptbook - the copy of the playscript used by the prompter
    • continuity - a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot
    • dialog, dialogue - the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
    • libretto - the words of an opera or musical play
    • scenario - an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)
    • screenplay - a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets
    • shooting script - the final detailed script for making a movie or TV program
    same as: book, playscript
  2. Something written by hand (synset 106415036)
    "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible"
    referred to in: handwriting - the activity of writing by hand
    is a type of: writing - letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language
    subtypes:
    same as: hand, handwriting
  3. A particular orthography or writing system (synset 106363020)
    is a type of: orthography, writing system - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
    subtypes:
    • aramaic, aramaic script - an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it
    • avestan - the script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written
    • brahmi - a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed
    • devanagari, devanagari script, nagari, nagari script - a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
    • pahlavi - the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language
    • uighur, uigur, uygur - the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
    • uncial - a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries
    • cuneiform - an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
    • syllabary, syllabic script - a writing system whose characters represent syllables
    • alphabet - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
Verb
  1. Write a script for (synset 201760563)
    "The playwright scripted the movie"
    referred to in: authorship, composition, penning, writing - the act of creating written works
    is a type of: compose, indite, pen, write - produce a literary work

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