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script noun [ skrɪpt ]

• handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.
• "her neat, tidy script"
Similar: handwriting, writing, hand, autograph, pen, letters, longhand, penmanship, calligraphy, chirography, scribble, scrawl, fist,
• the written text of a play, film, or broadcast.
Similar: text, book, screenplay, libretto, lyrics, score, lines, parts, dialogue, words, manuscript,
• a candidate's written answers in an examination.

script verb

• write a script for (a play, film, or broadcast).
• "it was perfectly scripted and beautifully acted"
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘something written’): shortening of Old French escript, from Latin scriptum, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of scribere ‘write’.

script noun

• a doctor's prescription.
Origin: late 19th century: shortened from prescription.

flip the script

• reverse the usual or existing positions in a situation; do something unexpected or revolutionary.
"Campbell flips the script on the old beauty-and-the-beast formula"



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