Author

When used as a verb, the term author means to create or publish a script, program, or document. In our business this may pertain to a computer program, operating system (OS), musical score, or any of dozens of other types of produced works. For example, quite often the word gets used in the slightly unusual context of making some media such as an audio or video CD/DVD. The process of authoring a DVD is not too dissimilar from writing computer software.