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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Script  \Script\,  n.  [OE.  scrit,  L.  scriptum  something  written, 
  fr  scribere  scriptum  to  write:  cf  OF  escript,  ?scrit,  F. 
  ['e]crit.  See  {Scribe},  and  cf  {Scrip}  a  writing.] 
  1.  A  writing;  a  written  document.  [Obs.]  --aucer. 
 
  2.  (Print.)  Type  made  in  imitation  of  handwriting. 
 
  3.  (Law)  An  original  instrument  or  document. 
 
  4.  Written  characters;  style  of  writing. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  script 
  n  1:  a  written  version  of  a  play  or  other  dramatic  composition; 
  used  in  preparing  for  a  performance  [syn:  {book},  {playscript}] 
  2:  something  written  by  hand;  "she  recognized  his  handwriting"; 
  "his  hand  was  illegible"  [syn:  {handwriting},  {hand}] 
  3:  a  particular  orthography  or  writing  system 
  v  :  write  a  script  for  "The  playwright  scripted  the  movie" 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  SCRIPT 
 
  1.  An  early  system  on  the  {IBM  702}. 
 
  [Listed  in  CACM  2(5):16  (May  1959)]. 
 
  2.  A  {real-time}  language. 
 
  ["A  Communication  Abstraction  Mechanism  and  its  Verification", 
  N.  Francez  et  al  Sci  Comp  Prog  6(1):35-88  (1986)]. 
 
  (1994-12-01) 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  script 
 
    A  program  written  in  a  {scripting  language},  but 
  see  {Ousterhout's  dichotomy}. 
 
  (1999-02-22)




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