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Writting

Obsolete form of writing

Write

To form (letters, words, or symbols) on a surface such as paper with an instrument such as a pen.

Write

To form (letters or words) in cursive style, especially in contrast to printing by hand.

Write

To spell
How do you write your name?.

Write

To fill (an amount of space) with words or information
Wrote five pages in an hour.
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Write

To put written information in the blank spaces of (a check, form, or similar document).

Write

To produce or compose (text) in a recorded form that can be read
Write a poem.
Write a letter.

Write

To express in writing; set down
Write one's thoughts.

Write

To communicate by writing, especially by written letter
She wrote that she was planning to visit.

Write

To communicate with (someone) by writing, especially by letter
Wrote me to tell me she had moved again.
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Write

To compose (a musical work).

Write

To underwrite, as an insurance policy.

Write

To compose in legal form; draft
Write a will.

Write

To indicate; mark
"Utter dejection was written on every face" (Winston S. Churchill).

Write

To ordain or prophesy
It was written that the empire would fall.

Write

(Computers) To transfer or copy (information) from memory to a storage device or output device.

Write

To trace or form letters, words, or symbols on paper or another surface
People who cannot read or write.

Write

To produce written material, such as articles or books
She wrote for most of her adult life.

Write

To compose a letter, email, or other written communication
Please write while you are away.

Write

(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
The pupil wrote his name on the paper.
Your son has been writing on the wall.

Write

(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.

Write

(transitive) To send written information to.
(UK) Please write to me when you get there.
(US) Please write me when you get there.

Write

(transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.

Write

To convey a fact to someone via writing.
Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.

Write

(intransitive) To be an author.
I write for a living.

Write

To record data mechanically or electronically.
The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.

Write

To fill in, to complete using words.
I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.

Write

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
Truth written on the heart

Write

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

Write

(finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).

Write

To paint a religious icon.

Write

The act or style of writing.

Write

(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

Write

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.

Write

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.
Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.
I chose to write the thing I durst not speakTo her I loved.

Write

Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living.

Write

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.

Write

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; - often used reflexively.
He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.

Write

To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
So it stead you, I will write,Please you command.

Write

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.

Write

To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors.

Write

To compose or send letters.
He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom.

Write

Produce a literary work;
She composed a poem
He wrote four novels

Write

Communicate or express by writing;
Please write to me every week

Write

Have (one's written work) issued for publication;
How many books did Georges Simenon write?
She published 25 books during her long career

Write

Communicate (with) in writing;
Write her soon, please!

Write

Communicate by letter;
He wrote that he would be coming soon

Write

Write music;
Beethoven composed nine symphonies

Write

Mark or trace on a surface;
The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper

Write

Record data on a computer;
Boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk

Write

Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);
He spelled the word wrong in this letter

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