Script may refer to:
- Computing
- Script (computing), a small program written for a command interpreter or another scripting language
- script (Unix), a tool that records a tty session
- SCRIPT (markup), a text formatting language developed at IBM
- Scripts (artificial intelligence), a structure for representing procedural knowledge
- Media
- Script (comics), the dialogue for a comic book or comic strip
- Script (performing arts), the dialogue and instructions for a play, musical or other performance work
- Script (recorded media), the dialogue and instructions for a film or television programme
- Manuscript, any written document that is put down by hand
- Screenplay, the dialog and instructions for a film
- Teleplay, the dialog and instructions for a television production
- Music
- The Script, an Irish band
- The Script (album), an album by The Script
- Psychology
- Behavioral script, a sequence of expected behaviors
- Life (or childhood) script in transactional analysis
- Places
- SCRIPT (AHRC Centre) Scottish Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technologies
- Writing
- A distinctive writing system
- A set of defined base elements or symbols in a writing system
- Scripts in Unicode, collections of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in writing systems, each assigned to a Unicode number
- Penmanship, the writing with the hand and a writing instrument
- Calligraphy, the art of fancy lettering, the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner
- Handwriting, a person's particular style of writing by pen or a pencil
- Hand (handwriting), varieties of formal, historic & exemplary writing styles.
- Script (typefaces), a coordinated set of letterforms designed with stylistic unity
- Other
- A common abbreviation or slang-type usage of Medical prescription
Famous quotes containing the word script:
“...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declaring that every man should be master in his own house.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Esther 1:22.
King Ahasuerus, after his Queen Vashti refused to come at the kings command.
“Genghis Khan, in his usual jodhpurs accessorized with whip, straddled a canvas chair and gloated upon the fairyland he had built. Journalists, photographers, secretaries, sycophants, script girls, and set dressers milled and stirred around him, activity ... irresistibly reminiscent of the movement of maggots upon rotting meat.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“I long to create something
that cant be used to keep us passive:
I want to write
a script about plumbing, how every pipe
is joined
to every other.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)