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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
script1
noun
  • 1 handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.

    ■ writing using a particular alphabet: Russian script.

  • 2 the written text of a play, film, or broadcast.
  • 3 Brit. a candidate's written answers in an examination.
  • 4 Computing a program or sequence of instructions that is carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor.
verb write a script for.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘something written’): shortening of OFr. escript, from L. scriptum, neut. past part. (used as n.) of scribere ‘write’.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
script2
noun informal a doctor's prescription.



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