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means A written set of instructions — for actors, for a film, or for a computer — that tells someone or something exactly what to do and say, step by step.

from From Latin scriptum, 'a thing written,' the past participle of scribere, 'to write' — the same root that gives us scribe, describe, and manuscript. Scribere itself traces back to a root meaning 'to cut' or 'incise,' a memory of when writing meant scratching marks into wax or stone rather than typing them into a void.