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| n. (communication) | 1. book, playscript, script | a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance. |
| ~ dramatic composition, dramatic work | a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (communication) | 2. hand, handwriting, script | something written by hand.; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" |
| ~ handwriting | the activity of writing by hand.; "handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis" |
| ~ shorthand, stenography, tachygraphy | a method of writing rapidly. |
| ~ cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand | rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper. |
| ~ writing | letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language.; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible" |
| ~ calligraphy, chirography, penmanship | beautiful handwriting. |
| ~ cacography, scrawl, scribble, scratch | poor handwriting. |
| n. (communication) | 3. script | a particular orthography or writing system. |
| ~ orthography, writing system | a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols. |
| ~ aramaic script, aramaic | 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. |
| v. (creation) | 4. script | write a script for.; "The playwright scripted the movie" |
| ~ authorship, penning, writing, composition | the act of creating written works.; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" |
| ~ indite, pen, write, compose | produce a literary work.; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" |
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