[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/script.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / script [← S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/S/) # script «script» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the written words of a play, film or TV show, telling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (a script, scripts; script — handwriting); verb (script, scripts, scripted, scripting) ### meaning for a pupil 1) A script is the written words of a play, film or TV show, telling actors what to say and do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#m2) 3) (computers) A script is a small program, a list of instructions for a computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#m3) 4) To script something is to write the words for it or plan it in detail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#m4) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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 - 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://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x4) - I learned my lines from the script for the school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x5) - The script says, "Enter the giant, stage left." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x6) - Arabic script is written from right to left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x7) - In Scratch, we built a script to make the cat dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x8) - The interview felt scripted, not natural. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x9) - The comedian went off script and made everyone laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x10) - We wrote a script for our own puppet show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x11) - 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/#x12) ### 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 the corpora - [A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/15/) - [It sounded like a script he'd practised.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/2/) - [Most people don't remember ordinary events to the exact minute; a story that is too perfect can be a practised script.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/35/) - [The other team was scripted to win!" His brother, watching: "Rigged?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/2/) - [The script is called 'defend'." Losing is not proof of cheating.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/4/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «script» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/script/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.