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[Write]

To write is to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. If you have trouble falling asleep, write down all the thoughts swimming around your head before getting into bed as a way to clear your mind.

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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.

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communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"

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record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"

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

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communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon"

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

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produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

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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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write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"

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


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.

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Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.


Write

Write , v. t. [imp. Wrote ; p. p. Written ; Archaic imp. & p. p. Writ ; p. pr. & vb. n. Writing.] [OE. writen, AS. wr'c6tan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS. wr'c6tan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. r'c6zan, Icel. r'c6ta to write, Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf. Race tribe, lineage.] 1. 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. 2. 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 speak To her I loved.
3. 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.
4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart. 5. 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.
To write to, to communicate by a written document to. -- Written laws, laws deriving their force from express legislative enactment, as contradistinguished from unwritten, or common, law. See the Note under Law, and Common law, under Common, a.

Write

Write, v. i. 1. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. Chaucer.
So it stead you, I will write, Please you command.
2. 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. 3. 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.
4. To compose or send letters.
He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom.

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.

To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.

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Usage Examples

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

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