Write
[raɪt]
Definition
(verb.) communicate or express by writing; 'Please write to me every week'.
(verb.) record data on a computer; 'boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk'.
(verb.) communicate (with) in writing; 'Write her soon, please!'.
(verb.) communicate by letter; 'He wrote that he would be coming soon'.
(verb.) mark or trace on a surface; 'The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper'; 'Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet'.
(verb.) produce a literary work; 'She composed a poem'; 'He wrote four novels'.
(verb.) create code, write a computer program; 'She writes code faster than anybody else'.
Checked by Carlton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
(v. t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
(v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
(v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
(v. t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
(v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
(v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
(v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
(v. i.) To compose or send letters.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Inscribe, scrawl, scribble, scratch.[2]. Compose, indite, produce, frame, pen, jot down, draw up, set down in writing, commit to paper, put on paper, dash off.
v. n. [1]. Compose, express one's self (in writing), put pen to paper, take pen in hand.[2]. Write a letter, send a letter.[3]. Tell (in writing), give account.
Typist: Lolita
Definition
v.t. to form letters with a pen or pencil: to express in writing: to compose: to engrave: to record: to communicate by letter.—v.i. to perform the act of writing: to be employed as a clerk: to compose books: to send letters: to practise the art of writing: to work as an author: to compose a letter:—pr.p. wrī′ting; pa.t. wrōte; pa.p. writ′ten.—ns. Wrī′ter one who writes: a professional scribe or clerk: an ordinary legal practitioner in Scotch country towns: an author: a petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship—usually Ship-writer:—fem. Wrī′teress (rare); Wrī′ter's-cramp (see Cramp); Wrī′tership the office of a writer; Wrī′ting the forming letters with a pen or pencil: that which is written: literary production; Wrī′ting-book a book of paper for practising penmanship; Wrī′ting-case a portable case containing materials for writing; Wrī′ting-cham′ber a room fitted for writing: a law office; Wrī′ting-desk a desk with a sloping top for writing upon: a portable writing-case; Wrī′ting-ink ink suited for writing with; Wrī′ting-mas′ter a master who teaches the art of penmanship: the yellow-bunting; Wrīting-pā′per paper finished with a smooth surface for writing upon; Wrī′ting-school a school for penmanship; Wrī′ting-tā′ble a table fitted or used for writing upon.—adj. Writ′ten reduced to writing—opposed to Oral.—Writers to the Signet an ancient society of solicitors in Scotland who formerly had the exclusive right to prepare all summonses and other writs pertaining to the supreme court of justice and still have the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs which include all charters precepts and writs from the sovereign or prince of Scotland.—Write down to put down in written characters: to condemn in writing; Write off to cancel by an entry on the opposite side of the account; Write out to transcribe: to exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing; Write up to put a full description of in writing: to praise something in writing above its merits.
Editor: Wallace
Examples
- Come, come, I'll write you a cheque,' said the little man; and down he sat at the table for that purpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They would not yet let me go: I must sit down and write before them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If you doubt that in the least degree, I will never write it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My Lady Steyne, he said, once more will you have the goodness to go to the desk and write that card for your dinner on Friday? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She could write letters enough for both, as she knew to her cost, and it was far better for him to be amiable than learned. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He would try to write it and if he had luck and could remember it perhaps he could get it down as she told it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She had written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In disproof of which superfluous remark Sir Leicester has indignantly written on the slate, I am not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is written in letters, not figures,--twenty thousand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I would not tell him that I thought him dying, so I expressed my regret that he had not written to me when he was so ill. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Laura had certainly written to say she would pass the night under the roof of her old friend--but she had never been near the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This was his answer, written, I suppose, in some pique: True you have given me many sweet kisses, and a lock of your beautiful hair. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Our friend, the doctor, was hard put to it when he wrote this. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In this place I will print an article which I wrote for the New York Herald the night we arrived. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Twice or thrice in the year, according to her promise, she wrote him letters to Madras, letters all about little Georgy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I did not remember, at the moment when I wrote last, that you knew them both; but I remembered it afterwards, and it helped me on. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I was informed he wrote several small occasional works, but only one of them was printed, which I remember to have seen several years since. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But she took such a long walk up and down our rooms that night, while I was writing to Agnes, that I began to think she meant to walk till morning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At last he grasped the manuscript upon which Jane Porter had been writing, and as cautiously withdrew his arm and hand, holding the precious treasure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I insisted on writing to Napier, who was at Melton Mowbray. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was bent on writing to Ponsonby. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Would you object to my writing it? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Under date of February 12, he writes: This day has been memorable in the annals of Valdivia for the most severe earthquake experienced by the oldes t inhabitant. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Sometimes she writes Percival only, but very seldom--in nine cases out of ten she gives him his title. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And you should see the hand she writes! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she writes about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- So Frank writes word. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Captain Marryatt writes: I do not know a spot on the globe which so much astonishes and delights upon first arrival as Madeira. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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