write
Meanings
Verb
- produce a literary work
- communicate or express by writing
- "Please write to me every week"
- have (one's written work) issued for publication
- "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"
- communicate (with) in writing
- "Write her soon, please!"
- communicate by letter
- write music
- mark or trace on a surface
- record data on a computer
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
- create code, write a computer program
- "She writes code faster than anybody else"
- To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
- To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
- To send written information to.
- To show (information, etc) in written form.
- To convey a fact to someone via writing.
- To be an author.
- To record data mechanically or electronically.
- To fill in, to complete using words.
- To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
- To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
- To sell (an option or other derivative).
- To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.
Noun
- The act or style of writing.
- The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
author, compose, display, drop a line, indicate, indite, inscribe, mark, pen, publish, save, scrawl, scribble, show, sit, spell, store, to post, write
Scrabble Score: 8
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