PRESCRIPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prescript mean? 

• PRESCRIPT (noun)
  The noun PRESCRIPT has 1 sense:

1. prescribed guide for conduct or action

  Familiarity information: PRESCRIPT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESCRIPT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prescribed guide for conduct or action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

prescript; rule

Hypernyms ("prescript" is a kind of...):

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prescript"):

bylaw (a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members)

rubric (an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure)

order; parliamentary law; parliamentary procedure; rules of order (a body of rules followed by an assembly)

rule of evidence ((law) a rule of law whereby any alleged matter of fact that is submitted for investigation at a judicial trial is established or disproved)

Miranda rule (the rule that police (when interrogating you after an arrest) are obliged to warn you that anything you say may be used as evidence and to read you your constitutional rights (the right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent until advised by a lawyer))

precept; principle (rule of personal conduct)

golden rule (any important rule)

GIGO ((computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out)

dictate; ordinance; regulation (an authoritative rule)

canon (a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy)

etiquette (rules governing socially acceptable behavior)

communications protocol; protocol ((computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data)

Holonyms ("prescript" is a part of...):

book; rule book (a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made)