write
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: writes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: writing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wrote
pos: verb
tags: past
form: writ
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: written
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: writ
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: ywriten
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: write
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: write
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: wrote
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: write
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: writest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: wrote
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: wrotest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: writes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: writeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: wrote
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: write
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: wrote
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: write
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: wrote
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: write
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: writing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: written
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: writes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The pupil wrote his name on the paper.
Your son has been writing on the wall.
gloss: To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.
gloss: To compose and send written information (to).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Please write to me when you get there.
Please write me when you get there.
He never phones me, but he does write occasionally.
gloss: To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Please write me a letter. Please write a letter to me.
gloss: To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.
Do you know, one man actually wrote me he thought he could almost shave with the back of the blade, the lather "mellowed" his beard so.
gloss: To show (information, etc) in written form.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.
Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice."
The route passes over low-lying land, the only item of note being the Cerebos salt works at Greatham, where one may catch a glimpse of the smart black diesel locomotive emblazoned with the firm's name writ large.
gloss: To be an author.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I write for a living.
I said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent.
gloss: To record data mechanically or electronically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
gloss: To fill in, to complete using words.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
South-Africa
transitive
usually
examples: I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.
Kúnlé had failed biology and chemistry, key requirements for admission into any medical school in the country. Kúnlé’s father wanted him to write the exams again.
gloss: To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
pos: verb
examples: truth written on the heart
14 For when the Gentiles which haue not the Law, doe by nature the things contained in the Law: these hauing not the Law, are a Law vnto themselues,
15 Which shew the worke of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witnesse, and their thoughts the meane while accusing, or else excusing one another:
gloss: To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
He who writes himself Martyr 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.
gloss: To sell (an option or other derivative).
pos: verb
gloss: To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.
pos: verb
gloss: The act or style of writing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
pos: noun
examples: How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
Synonyms: author
pen
to post
store
write
Antonyms: load
read
retrieve
Related words: handwrite
Derived words: bewrite
copy-on-write proxy
co-write
cross write
don't forget to write
forewrite
ghost write
ghost-write
hand-written
inwrite
nothing to write home about
overwrite
read-write
rewrite
something to write home about
teach to read and write
that's all she wrote
the jokes write themselves
to write home about
underwrite
who writes this stuff
write-ahead log
write-ahead logging
write-around
write as separate words
write-back
writeback
write blocker
write checks one can't cash
write cheques one can't cash
write-down
write down
write for the drawer
write head
write-in
write in
write itself
write-off
write off
write-onable
write once
write once, run anywhere
write oneself into a corner
write one's own ticket
write-only
write-only memory
write out
write over
writer
write the book
write-through
write up
write-up
writing
writ large
quick-write
torn write
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: skryf aan
lang: Arabic
word: كَاتَبَ
roman: kātaba
lang: Armenian
word: գրել
roman: grel
lang: Bashkir
word: яҙыу
roman: yaźıw
lang: Central Bikol
word: surat
lang: Bulgarian
word: пиша
roman: piša
lang: Czech
word: napsat
lang: Danish
word: skrive
lang: Dutch
word: schrijven (naar)
lang: Esperanto
word: skribi al
lang: Estonian
word: kirjutama
lang: Finnish
word: kirjoittaa
lang: French
word: écrire à
lang: West-Frisian
word: skriuwe (oan immen)
lang: German
word: schreiben
lang: Greek
word: γράφω
roman: gráfo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐπιστέλλω
roman: epistéllō
lang: Hebrew
word: כָּתַב
roman: katáv
lang: Hungarian
word: ír
lang: Icelandic
word: skrifa utan á bréf
lang: Indonesian
word: tulis
lang: Irish
word: scríobh chuig
lang: Italian
word: scrivere a
lang: Japanese
word: 書く
roman: kaku
lang: Kashmiri
word: لیکھُن
roman: lēkhun
lang: Kazakh
word: жазу
roman: jazu
lang: Latin
word: scribo
lang: Macedonian
word: пишува
roman: pišuva
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skrive
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: skriva
lang: Portuguese
word: escrever
lang: Russian
word: писать
roman: pisatʹ
lang: Russian
word: написа́ть
roman: napisátʹ
lang: Northern Sami
word: čállit
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пи́сати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: písati
lang: Spanish
word: escribir a
lang: Swedish
word: skriva
lang: Walloon
word: scrire
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: tsʼíibt
lang: Afrikaans
word: skryf
lang: Arabic
word: َأَلَّف
roman: aʔallaf
lang: Armenian
word: գրել
roman: grel
lang: Bulgarian
word: съчинявам
roman: sǎčinjavam
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: hwandziha
lang: Czech
word: psát
lang: Danish
word: skrive
lang: Danish
word: digte
lang: Danish
word: forfatte
lang: Dutch
word: schrijven
lang: Esperanto
word: verki
lang: Estonian
word: kirjutama
lang: Ewe
word: ŋlɔ
lang: Finnish
word: kirjoittaa
lang: French
word: écrire
lang: French
word: rédiger
lang: West-Frisian
word: skriuwer
lang: German
word: schreiben
lang: German
word: verfassen
lang: German
word: texten
lang: German
word: dichten
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γράφω
roman: gráphō
lang: Hebrew
word: כָּתַב
roman: katáv
lang: Hungarian
word: ír
lang: Hungarian
word: megír
lang: Icelandic
word: rithöfundur
lang: Ingrian
word: kirjuttaa
lang: Irish
word: scríobh
lang: Japanese
word: 書く
roman: kaku
lang: Kashmiri
word: لیکھُن
roman: lēkhun
lang: Latin
word: scribo
lang: Macedonian
word: пишува
roman: pišuva
lang: Norman
word: écrire
lang: Norman
word: êcrithe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skrive
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: skriva
lang: Portuguese
word: escrever
lang: Romanian
word: scrie
lang: Russian
word: писать
roman: pisatʹ
lang: Russian
word: написа́ть
roman: napisátʹ
lang: Northern Sami
word: čállit
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пи́сати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: písati
lang: Sotho
word: ngola
lang: Spanish
word: escribir
lang: Swedish
word: skriva
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یازمق
roman: yazmak
lang: Vietnamese
word: viết
lang: Walloon
word: scrire
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: tsʼíibt