script1
n.
- handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.
▸writing using a particular alphabet:
Russian script.
- the written text of a play, film, or broadcast.
- Brit. a candidate's written answers in an examination.
- Computing a program or sequence of instructions that is carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor.
v.
write a script for.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘something written’): shortening of OFr. escript, from L. scriptum, neut. past part. (used as n.) of scribere ‘write’.