(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ of a play, film, or television programme is the written version of it.
Jenny’s writing a film ~.
N-COUNT
2.
The person who ~s a film or a radio or television play writes it.
...James Cameron, who ~ed and directed both films.
VERB: V n
3.
You can refer to a particular system of writing as a particular ~.
...a text in the Malay language but written in Arabic ~.
N-VAR: usu adj N
4.
If you say that something which has happened is not in the ~, or that someone has not followed the ~, you mean that something has happened which was not expected or intended to happen.
Losing was not in the ~...
The game plan was right. We just didn’t follow the ~.
N-SING: the N, usu with brd-neg