Script may refer to:
Writing systems
* Script, a distinctive
writing system
A writing system is a method of visually representing verbal communication, based on a script and a set of rules regulating its use. While both writing and speech are useful in conveying messages, writing differs in also being a reliable fo ...
, based on a repertoire of specific elements or symbols, or that repertoire
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Script (styles of handwriting)
Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...
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Script typeface
Script typefaces are based upon the varied and often fluid stroke created by handwriting. They are generally used for display or trade printing, rather than for extended body text in the Latin alphabet. Some Greek alphabet typefaces, especially ...
, a typeface with characteristics of handwriting
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Script (Unicode)
In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support one and only one writing system and language, for example, Armenian. Other scri ...
, historical and modern scripts as organised in
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
glyph encoding
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Script (comics)
A script is a document describing the narrative and dialogue of a comic book in detail. It is the comic book equivalent of a television program teleplay or a film screenplay.
In comics, a script may be preceded by a plot outline, and is almost al ...
, the dialogue for a comic book or comic strip
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Script (video games), the narrative and text of a video game
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Manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in ...
, any written document, often story-based and unpublished
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Play (theatre)
A play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between characters and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. The writer of a play is called a playwright.
Plays are performed at a variety of levels, f ...
, the dialogue and stage directions for a theatrical production
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Rob Wagner's ''Script'', a defunct literary magazine edited by Rob Wagner
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Screenplay, the dialogue, action and locations for film or television
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Scripted sequence
In video games, a scripted sequence is a pre-defined series of events that occur when triggered by player location or actions that play out in the game engine.
Function
Some scripted sequences are used to play short cutscenes that the player has ...
, a predefined series of events in a video game triggered by player location or actions
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The Script, an Irish band
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''The Script'' (album), their 2008 debut album
Computing and technology
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Scripting language
A scripting language or script language is a programming language that is used to manipulate, customize, and automate the facilities of an existing system. Scripting languages are usually interpreted at runtime rather than compiled.
A scripting ...
, in which computer programming scripts are written
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SCRIPT (markup)
SCRIPT,Stuart E. Madnick and Allen G. Moulton (1968) IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech, Vol. EWS-11, No. 2, pp. 92-100. any of a series of text markup languages starting with Script under Control Program-67/Cambridge Monitor Sy ...
, a text formatting language developed by IBM
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script (Unix), a command that records a terminal session
* Script, a description of procedural knowledge used in
script theory, also used in artificial intelligence
Medicine and psychology
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SCRIPT (medicine) SCRIPT is a standard promulgated by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) for the electronically transmitted medical prescriptions in the United States.
Adoption
The first version of SCRIPT was approved in 1997. Version 8.1 ...
, a standard for electronically transmitted medical prescriptions
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SCRIPT (mnemonic)
Heart murmurs are unique heart sounds produced when blood flows across a heart valve or blood vessel. This occurs when turbulent blood flow creates a sound loud enough to hear with a stethoscope. Turbulent blood flow is not smooth. The sound di ...
, a memory aid related to heart murmurs
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Behavioral script, a sequence of expected behaviors
* Life (or childhood) script, in
transactional analysis
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social interactions (or “transactions”) are analyzed to determine the ego state of the communicator (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult-like) as a b ...
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Medical prescription
A prescription, often abbreviated or Rx, is a formal communication from a physician or other registered health-care professional to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient. Historicall ...
(abbreviated Rx, scrip, or script), official health instructions
Other uses
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SCRIPT (AHRC Centre), the Scottish Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technologies
See also
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Scrip
A scrip (or ''chit'' in India) is any substitute for legal tender. It is often a form of credit. Scrips have been created and used for a variety of reasons, including exploitive payment of employees under truck systems; or for use in local co ...
, any currency substitute
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Scripps (disambiguation) Scripps may refer to:
People
* Edward W. Scripps (1854–1926), American publisher and media financier
* Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), American philanthropist, half-sister of Edward W. Scripps
* James E. Scripps (1835–1906), American ne ...
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Scripted (company), an online marketplace for businesses and freelance writers
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