scripts

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of script.

   The studio archived thousands of scripts from its earliest productions.

   Scholars spent decades deciphering the ancient scripts carved into the stone.

   Note

   The plural picks out the countable uses of script: plays and screenplays, written documents, short computer programs, and distinct writing systems. When script means a style of handwriting or a typeface imitating it, it is often uncountable (written in script, set in script). In those uses the plural signals separate kinds, as when scholars compare the scripts of two alphabets.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of script.

   The lead writer scripts the entire show under a punishing deadline.

   A small team scripts the dialogue while another handles the staging.

   Note

   This form is spelled like the noun plural, and the subject tells them apart: a writer scripts, a studio keeps scripts. The verb is transitive, so it takes a direct object, as in she scripts the episode. Beyond writing for performance, it can mean devising or contriving. Someone who scripts an excuse or a meeting has arranged it in advance.

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