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Write   /raɪt/   Listen
Write

verb
(past wrote; past part. written; archaic past & past part. writ; pres. part. writing)
1.
Produce a literary work.  Synonyms: compose, indite, pen.  "He wrote four novels"
2.
Communicate or express by writing.
3.
Have (one's written work) issued for publication.  Synonym: publish.  "She published 25 books during her long career"
4.
Communicate (with) in writing.  Synonym: drop a line.
5.
Communicate by letter.
6.
Write music.  Synonym: compose.
7.
Mark or trace on a surface.  "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
8.
Record data on a computer.  Synonym: save.
9.
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word).  Synonym: spell.
10.
Create code, write a computer program.



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"Write" Quotes from Famous Books



... welfare of his subjects, for the temples were centres of culture and the priests were the teachers of the young. Excavators have discovered at Sippar traces of a school which dates from the Hammurabi Dynasty. Pupils learned to read and write, and received instruction in arithmetic and mensuration. They copied historical tablets, practised the art of composition, and ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... begin by pointing out that, in general, it implies a radical misconception of the story-teller's methods of procedure. An idea, a situation, is suggested to him by real life, he takes traits and peculiarities from this or that person whom he has known or seen, but this is all. When he comes to write—unless, of course, it is a case of malice and bad faith—the mere necessities of an imaginative effort oblige him to cut himself adrift from reality. His characters become to him the creatures of a dream, as vivid often as his waking life, but still a dream. And the only portraits ...
— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... he said heartily. "You can write me down as willing and anxious to take all the help I can get, for it's going to be no microscopic job, that I can tell you. One week has waked up the Jap to the fact that there's something doing, and he's digging in and has ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... inadequacy; with the realization that some of its principles may have to be modified or their emphasis altered after wider research; but also with the hope that this effort may make the way easier for the scholar who shall some day write the ideal treatise ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple
... enough suggestions for his projected book to enable him to write a library, we think, but he says that he is quite in earnest in wanting to hear from many thousand boys and girls on this subject. His purpose is apparently to make a book which shall be ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various


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