Write
noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 The act or style of writing.
"The pen also gives a better write than the ordinary counter pen. The ink stand cannot be stolen, for it is fastened to the counter or desk."
- 2 The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
"How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?"
- 1 To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. ambitransitive
"The pupil wrote his name on the paper."
- 2 communicate or express by writing wordnet
- 3 To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.). transitive
"My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald."
- 4 record data on a computer wordnet
- 5 To compose and send written information (to). intransitive
"Please write to me when you get there."
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- 6 contact in writing wordnet
- 7 To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to. ditransitive
"Please write me a letter. Please write a letter to me."
- 8 mark or trace words or symbols on a surface wordnet
- 9 To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.; To convey a fact to someone via writing. ditransitive
"Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money."
- 10 create code, write a computer program wordnet
- 11 To show (information, etc) in written form. transitive
"The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus."
- 12 produce a literary work wordnet
- 13 To be an author. intransitive
"I write for a living."
- 14 write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) wordnet
- 15 To record data mechanically or electronically. intransitive
"The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it."
- 16 write music wordnet
- 17 To fill in, to complete using words. Canada, South-Africa, transitive, usually
"I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test."
- 18 To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
"truth written on the heart"
- 19 To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
"Thoſe walled garriſons will I ſubdue, And write my ſelfe great Lord of Affrica: So from the Eaſt vnto the furtheſt Weſt, Shall Tamburlaine extend his puiſant arme."
- 20 To sell (an option or other derivative).
- 21 To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.
Example
More examples"Most people write about their daily life."
Etymology
From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.