[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/script/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) / script # script noun (a script, scripts; script — handwriting); verb (script, scripts, scripted, scripting) «script» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A script is the written words of a play, film or TV show, telling actors what to say and do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#m1) 2. A script is a writing system or style of handwriting, like the Latin, Cyrillic or Arabic script, or joined-up "script" handwriting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#m2) 3. (computers) A script is a small program, a list of instructions for a computer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#m3) 4. To script something is to write the words for it or plan it in detail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#m4) ### In the lessons In drama lessons pupils read scripts, learn their lines and write playscripts with stage directions. In handwriting lessons in the USA, "script" or "cursive" means joined-up writing. In computing, children may write scripts in Scratch. In stories and real life, "following the script" means doing what was planned. Phrases: "learn the script", "film script", "write a script", "go off script", "scripted". ### Examples - I learned my lines from the script for the school play. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x1) - The script says, "Enter the giant, stage left." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x2) - Arabic script is written from right to left. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x3) - In Scratch, we built a script to make the cat dance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x4) - The interview felt scripted, not natural. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x5) - The comedian went off script and made everyone laugh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x6) - We wrote a script for our own puppet show. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x7) - The very letters that have spread through all Europe except Russia, are to be traced to the script of these Irish monks: why not certain folk-tales? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/#x8) ### Note Countable: a script, scripts. A person who writes film scripts is a scriptwriter or screenwriter. "Scripture" (holy writing, like the Bible) comes from the same old word for "writing". A playscript has character names on the left and stage directions in brackets. ## In Jewish tradition In Isaiah, God tells the prophet to write on a tablet in "common script," meaning ordinary letters anyone can read. **Interpretation.** In Sefer Yetzirah "script" is the written letters, one of the three ways God made the world: Scribe, Script and Scroll. ### Examples - In Tomus Primus of \*\* Artis Cabalisticae hoc est reconditae theologiae et philosophise script orum." Basileae 1587, is found \*\* Liber de Creatione Cabalistinis, Hebraice Sepher Jezira ; Authore Abrahamo. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x1) - Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script, and Scroll. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x2) - "Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, the Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script and Scroll." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x3) - And the LORD said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth; (Prophets ISA.8.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x4) ### Note Countable: a script, scripts. A person who writes film scripts is a scriptwriter or screenwriter. "Scripture" (holy writing, like the Bible) comes from the same old word for "writing". A playscript has character names on the left and stage directions in brackets. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «script» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/script/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«script» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/script.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «script» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«script» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/script.html) on Mova free.