Script vs. Screenplay — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Script and Screenplay
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Script
Handwriting.
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Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film, television program, or video game. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing.
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Script
A style of writing with cursive characters.
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Screenplay
The script for a movie, including descriptions of scenes and some camera directions.
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Script
A particular system of writing
Cuneiform script.
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Screenplay
A script for a movie or a television show.
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Script
A style of type that imitates handwriting.
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Screenplay
To write a screenplay.
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Script
The matter set in this type.
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Screenplay
A script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets
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Script
The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.
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Script
A copy of a text used by a director or performer.
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Script
(Law) The original of a legal instrument, as opposed to a copy.
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Script
(Computers) A simple program in a language that the computer must convert to machine language each time the program is run.
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Script
To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.
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Script
To arrange, direct, or control (an event or a person) as if supplying a script
"the brilliant, charming, judicial moderate scripted by his White House fans" (Ellen Goodman).
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Script
(Computers) To write (code) for a program.
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Script
A writing; a written document.
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Script
Written characters; style of writing.
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Script
(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
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Script
An original instrument or document.
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Script
(countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
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Script
(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
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Script
(psychology) A behavioral script; sequence of actions in a given situation.
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Script
(linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
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Script
(informal) prescription for drugs or medicine
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Script
(transitive) To make or write a script.
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Script
(transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.
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Script
A writing; a written document.
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Script
Type made in imitation of handwriting.
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Script
An original instrument or document.
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Script
Written characters; style of writing.
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Script
A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
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Script
Something written by hand;
She recognized his handwriting
His hand was illegible
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Script
A particular orthography or writing system
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Script
Write a script for;
The playwright scripted the movie
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