script-n; 6 Senses

Sense Number 1: a dramatic composition, e.g., for a play

Commentary: SCRIPT[+artifact][+document][+composition][+dramatic]

Examples:
The actor threw his script down in disgust.
The film director is working from a revised copy of the shooting script.
The screenwriter has optioned a spec script to a major studio.
The candidate felt his election team were not all working from the same script. (metaphoric extension)

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: style of personal handwriting

Commentary: SCRIPT[+form][+information][+written][+style][+handwriting][+personal]

Examples:
The scrawling large script of the note looked like John's handwriting.
The children practiced their script in penmanship class.
The crabbed, small script of her notes is almost illegible.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: a style or type of orthography, e.g., Helvetica

Commentary: SCRIPT[+form][+information][+written][+style][+orthography][+system]

Examples:
The book was published in a beautiful Russian Cyrillic script.
The word-processing program provides dozens of scripts to choose from.
Screenplays are required to be formatted using Courier 12-point script.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 4: a short sequenced computer program

Commentary: SCRIPT[+artifact][+program][+short][+computer][+sequence][+of_instructions]

Examples:
Mary wrote a Perl script to format the text files into database records.
The book provides many useful examples of Unix shell scripts.

Mappings:
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 2a

Sense Number 5: rote, stereotypical social behavior

Commentary: SCRIPT[+event_set][+behavior][+social][+rote]

Examples:
The princess was expected to follow the script of being the wife of royalty.
Her book on discourse analysis looks at a variety of conversational scripts that occur between customers and clerks in department stores.

Mappings:
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 2b

Sense Number 6: a doctor's prescription

Commentary: SCRIPT[+artifact][+document][+prescription][+doctor's]

Examples:
Dr. Jones wrote Mary a script for an anti-depressant.
The scripts are entered via computer and transmitted electronically to the pharmacy.

Mappings:
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 2