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Definition: Write |
WriteVerb1. Produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels". 2. Communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week". 3. Have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"'She published 25 books during her long career". 4. Communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!". 5. Communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon". 6. Write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies". 7. Mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper". 8. Record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk". 9. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "write" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Write 1. |
Aerospace | In computer terminology, record.Back to Table of Contents. (references) |
Literature | Write To write up. To bring into public notice or estimation by favourable criticisms or accounts of, as to write up a play or an author. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Writing is the process of recording characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other larger language constructs. The instrument or instruments used for recording, and the medium on which the recording is done can be almost infinite, and can be done by any instrument capable of making marks on any surface that will accept them; writing has even been done at nearly the atomic level. Writing can be done even on a grain of rice. The durability is often very good, but very volatile is e.g. writing in the sand; writing on a blackboard is also for short-term use and often erased after some minutes or hours.Writing is also often used to describe the craft of creating a larger work of literature. This is an extension of the original meaning, which would include the act of writing longer texts. (Interestingly, if this is done on a typewriter, the physical act of making the marks on the paper in the typewriter would be called typing, whereas the intellectual activity involved in generating the letters, words and sentences would be called "writing".) Writing in this sense can refer to the production of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and sometimes letters.
Most of time, writing aims to produce works that are target of reading.
Typically, however, one will use a writing utensil (such as a pen or pencil) to write characters on paper; or a computer (or typewriter) to record characters to disk, (electromagnetic tape, CD-ROM, or other computer medium on which information can be recorded). The use of pen and paper has historical primacy, and one could argue that the second is merely analogous to writing. Still, as commonly used, writing refers to recording visual characters on physical or electronic media.
In the western world, this means putting characters together to form words and sentences. In cultures using ideograms, each character used represents a word or concept, and can then be put together with others to form sentences.
Writing is believed to have originated by the simple drawing of ideograms: for example, a drawing of an apple represents an apple, and a drawing of two legs may represent the concept of walking or standing. From this origin, the symbols become more abstract, eventually evolving into symbols which seem unrelated to the original symbol. For example, the letter N in English is actually from an Egyptian hieroglyph representing the same sound, but depicting waves in water - the Egyptian word for water contains only one consonant /n/, and the picture eventually came to represent not only the idea of water, but the sound /n/ as well.
Writing with the intent to communicate has been viewed spontaneously in non-humans. Work with the bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha in the United States has provided one such example. The examples which occur are very few, but the origin of bonobo "writing" seems to be analogous to the origin of human writing.
An exception to the general rule that writing is an attempt to communicate is the writing in unknown scripts or languages alleged by mediums to be communicated to them by ghosts, spirits, or other, generally supernatural or extraterrestrial entities. This technique is known as automatic writing.
Writing that blends meaning and transcription is called constrained writing.
Sometimes writing is done in invisible ink that can be later decoded, if the message is intended to be secret and only for the recipient or recipients.
Rarely, "writing" is used to refer to the making of marks using various methods, that is not, strictly speaking, writing, as in the "indecipherable writing" (a type of surautomatism) developed by the Romanian surrealists; "indecipherable writing" is actually more akin to what would commonly be described as drawing or painting than writing.
The borderline between prehistory and history is usually taken to be the time from when we have written records. The importance of writing for history and record keeping comes from the fact that it allows information to be stored and communicated across generations, in addition to between individuals (as language enables.)
See also author, communication, linguistics, orthography, pencil, printing, publishing, speech, word processing, writer, boustrophedon text.
Further reading
- A History of Writing: From Hieroglyph to Multimedia , edited by Anne-Marie Christin, Flammarion (in French), hardcover: 408 pages , 2002), ISBN 2080108875
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Writing."
Synonyms: WriteSynonyms: compose (v), drop a line (v), indite (v), pen (v), publish (v), spell (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Phrase: "among the giant fossils of my past"; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain"; "I lived to write and wrote to live"; "look in thy heart and write"; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live"; "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers"; "volumes that I prize above my dukedom". |
Correspondence | Verb: correspond with; write to, send a letter to; keep up a correspondence. |
Dissertation | Verb: expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject. |
Importance | Attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to; Noun: value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark; mark with a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in italics, print in capitals,print in large letters, put in large type, put in letters. of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on. |
Information | Announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword, send word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an account; give an account; (describe); state; (affirm). |
Magnetic media, paper medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM. | |
Prose | Write prose, write in prose. |
Record | Verb: record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory; (remember); commemorate; (celebrate); report; (inform); write, commit to writing, reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum; make a return. |
Compact disk; floppy disk, diskette; hard disk, Winchester disk; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM. | |
Style | Verb: express by words; write. |
Writing | Verb: write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down; (record); sign; (attest); enface. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Write |
| English words defined with "write": write about, write copy, write of, write off, write on, write out, write up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "write": concurrent read, concurrent write, concurrent read, exclusive write ♦ exclusive read, concurrent write, exclusive read, exclusive write ♦ ratio write back-spread, Remote Write Protocol, reverse ratio write ♦ variable ratio write ♦ write buffer, Write Like an Angel. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "write": Writability. (references) |
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Screenplays | Then I'll write a song and we'll put it in the show and whenever you sing it or hear it. Or whistle or hum it then you'll know (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) You gonna write us a happy ending, Heather (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) Rightnow write that one hundred times (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) | |
Lyrics | And I'll write the words you love (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply) You'll never write (Www.memory; performing artist: Alan Jackson) YOU CAN WRITE IT IN A LETTER, BABE (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) Well maybe I'll call or write you a letter (Good; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) There would still be music left to write (The Longest Time; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Clever | Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. (references; author: Mark Twain) Illiterate? Write For Help. (references; author: unknown) Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: In the memo field of all your checks, write "FOR SEXUAL FAVORS. (references; author: unknown) You work for a defense contractor if you write your personal letters in vu-graph format. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Write It Right (1960) Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) Don't Write Letters (1922) Pa Tries to Write (1916) Let's Write a Story (2003) | |
Song Titles | I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (performing artist: Madeleine Peyroux) The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em) (performing artist: The Greg Kihn Band) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Confidentiality: don't write it off!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Protect children against sexual abuse. : Learn how. Write for a free booklet: Say "No!". Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | News note: beginning July 1, former President Coolidge will write a daily letter for a New York newspaper. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I don't suppose he'd want me to write the history!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pogo]. You sure this is the best poem you kin write to woo Miz Boombah for ol' Deacon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Who stole the tarts?] "Please, your Majesty," said the Knave, "I didn't write it ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hawaii's Constitutional Convention opens April 4 in Honolulu armory, with 63 delegates gathered to write a constitution for Hawaii pending Senate approval of statehood for the territory. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sir James Simpson, full-length portrait, facing front, seated at a table with inkwell, pen, and paper, as if about to write. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer and his wife write a letter on the post office steps. Ontario, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unfortunately, this is the only deadline we have in Vietnam. One more death is one too many. Write your congressman. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Many postcards" by Jewel Collins Commentary: "In my postcards series. inspired by the ataris song: "postcards on the floor/ but this pen can't write lonliness no more."." | "Pen in Hand" by Brian Griesbaum Commentary: "Left Handed Pen in Hand beginning to write memo." |
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 | Scribble; pencil; pen; scribbling; write; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal | It is difficult not to write satire. |
Benjamin Franklin | Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. |
John Adams | Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. |
Lord Acton | Advice to Persons About to Write History -- Don't. |
Meister Eckhart | Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. |
Oscar Wilde | Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it. |
| Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. | |
Otto Von Bismarck | The main thing is to make history, not to write it. |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | I write [music] as a sow piddles. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Feudal Socialism Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | When American military men approach some serious situation they are wont to write at the head of their directive the words "over-all strategic concept." There is wisdom in this, as it leads to clarity of thought. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Isabella and Emma, I think, do write very much alike |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It would be a mistake to write to Liege for corks or to Pau for gloves |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And his father had told him if he wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow |
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | Eugene: She wants me to write quietly |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Write to me very shortly, And you shall understand from me her mind |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | It give him the shivers to write. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Besides, I meddle not the least with any party, but write without passion, prejudice, or illwill against any man or number of men whatsoever |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I asked him if he ever wished to write his thoughts |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Try to write down the times when you go to the bathroom. (references) | |
Ask your doctor to slow down when you need more time to write. (references) | ||
They cannot speak or understand speech, nor can they read or write. (references) | ||
Business | AutoCAD is the most popular environment, used by a large number of Autodesk’s partners to write their own applications. (references) | |
The Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaiones (CNT) was established in an executive decree (Res. 1185/90) with the purpose to administer licences, oversee rates, evaluate performance, write and enforce regulations. (references) | ||
NATAM's Infrastructure Plan will be released in November 2000. On release of the plan, CS Oslo will write a supplementary IMI to this ISA. The IMI will outline infrastructure developments that NATAM is planning. (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | Even those children who go to school are not assured of being able to read and write. (references) |
Pakistan | According to UNICEF figures, a nationwide sample of children in grade five revealed that only 33 percent could read with comprehension, while a mere 17 percent were able to write a simple letter. (references) | |
Russia | Ombudsmen may only write a letter requesting an inquiry by law enforcement authorities, assist those whose rights have been violated to understand their legal rights, and make suggestions to legislators (local, regional, and federal) on ways to improve legislation. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Yemen | Amer continues to write for another newspaper, al-Usbu'. (references) |
Bulgaria | However, journalists frequently write reports to conform with the views of their owners. (references) | |
Fiji | Many academics write articles for the media and include disclaimers in their work to preclude contract or work permit problems. (references) | |
Economic History | Russia | In early 2000 Russia negotiated a 35% write off of its commercial debt with the London Club. (references) |
Estonia | These acts prompted 40 established intellectuals to write a letter to Moscow and the republic authorities. (references) | |
South Korea | Chinese characters (Hanja) were used to write Korean before the Korean Hangul alphabet was invented in the 15th century. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bhutan | In cases where defendants cannot write their own defense, courts assign judicial officers to assist defendants. (references) |
China | Dissidents in Shanghai have been warned not to meet with certain persons, talk to reporters, or write or fax articles. (references) | |
China | To promote transparency, Shenzhen courts instituted a pilot program requiring judges to write out the reasoning behind their verdicts. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | While many professors lecture and write in opposition to the Government, they exercise self-censorship. (references) |
Vietnam | Political commentators write about the need to attract foreign capital while safeguarding Vietnam's socialist political system. (references) | |
CZECH REPUBLIC | Firms are allowed to write off the first year's share of a bad debt without filing suit against the debtor, though subsequent write-offs must document unsuccessful efforts to collect past due amounts. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkmenistan | In 1998 the President announced that any Turkmen citizen who desired to write to him with a complaint could do so directly. (references) |
East Timor | The Constituent Assembly was formed to write a constitution to determine the structure of government and division of powers for an independent East Timor. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Reportedly citizens continued to write to the President because these letters often were cited in the local media, but the numbers received during the year were not reported. (references) | |
Trade | Ireland | NIST offers industry an in-depth reference system on EU standards information gathered from the two European standards bodies tasked to write the EU norms - the European Committee for Standards (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC). (references) |
Netherlands | A part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST offers industry an in-depth reference system on EU standards information gathered from the two European standards bodies tasked to write the EU 1992 norms - the European Committee for Standards (CEN), and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC). (references) | |
Italy | Exporters can stay fully informed of the latest EU technical standards activities by contacting the Standards Information Service of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at (301) 975-4040. A part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST offers industry an in-depth reference system on EU standards information gathered from the two European standards bodies tasked to write the EU norms --the European Committee for Standards (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC). (references) | |
Travel | Venezuela | Companies that write to a government agency in English will probably not receive a reply. (references) |
Sweden | U.S. firms should write to the U.S. Council at its New York address to apply for ATA Carnets. (references) | |
Mexico | If necessary, write any PIN numbers on a piece of paper and carry it with you separate from your wallet. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Switzerland | Generally the victims were unable read, write, or speak the country's languages, and were afraid to seek help from the authorities. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be. 'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John." A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad. In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light. Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free. Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame. While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town. "How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t." (That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.) "Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling. "Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear -- "By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake. "We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will." So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
David Berkowitz | Well, I have my time at the end of the workday. I can go to the chapel on nights we have Bible studies or services, or I can stay back on other nights and write letters. I read and so forth. |
Gerald Ford | Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must. |
Judy Collins | I do. I have a couple of books on the way. And, fortunately, I can write on the airplanes when I'm traveling. |
Julie Andrews | It's like trying to write a Haiku poem of sorts. You boil it down to essence. Illustrations show so much. And you have to have narrative. You have to have a small message. |
Mattie Stepanek | Jimmy Carter is my hero because he is a humble peacemaker. He will write a book. He'll solve a problem. He'll build a house. |
Paul McCartney | Half an hour, something like that. If you're really lucky, they just arrive and you kind of just write them down. |
Rush Limbaugh | We're empowering courts in this country way too much, and legislators whose job it is to write laws are letting it happen by not raising a stink when judges rewrite their laws. |
Walter Cronkite | I'm just back from the biggest assignment that any American reporter could have so far in this war. And when we were permitted to write, there was plenty to report. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | There is nothing I want more than to see the day come when I do not have to write any of those letters. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We must also invest in safe schools, so that our children can learn to count and read and write without also learning how to duck bullets. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Write" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 63.93% of the time. "Write" is used about 10,870 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 63.93% | 6,950 | 1,393 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 36.02% | 3,916 | 2,497 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,870 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "write": able to write ♦ he can hardly write ♦ i write myself your most obedient servant ♦ please write it down ♦ put write ♦ remote Write Protocol ♦ reverse ratio write ♦ to write the book ♦ To write to ♦ variable ratio write ♦ write a good hand ♦ write a letter ♦ write a message ♦ write a report ♦ write a treatise on ♦ write about ♦ write again ♦ write an account ♦ write away ♦ write back ♦ write buffer ♦ write copy ♦ write down ♦ write down of bank building ♦ write endurance ♦ write fairly ♦ write for ♦ write for the press ♦ write head ♦ write in ♦ write in a crabbed hand ♦ write in code ♦ write in for ♦ write in full ♦ write in pencil ♦ write in prose ♦ write in texthand ♦ write into ♦ write notes in the margin ♦ write of ♦ write off ♦ write off a loss ♦ write on ♦ write on diary keeper ♦ write once read mostly memory ♦ write oneself out ♦ write out ♦ write out a check ♦ write out a prescription ♦ write out fair ♦ write out figures in words ♦ write out in words ♦ write over ♦ write poems ♦ write poetry ♦ write prose ♦ write smb. cheque ♦ write smth. in the margin ♦ write to ♦ write to ask ♦ write too much ♦ write up ♦ write up an article ♦ write with pen. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "write": write-access, write-a-thon, write-a-thons, write-back, write-down, write-downs, write-in, write-in candidate, write-off, write-offs, write-on, write-once, Write-Once Read-Many, write-once-read-many, write-only code, write-only language, write-only memory, write-permission, write-protect, write-protected, write-protection, write-through, write-thru, write-tip, write-up, write-ups, write-your-own. | |
Ending with "write": pc-write, read-write. | |
Containing "write": non-write-through, no-write allocation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
write a resume | 2,437 | write a poem | 134 |
write a book | 662 | c driver unix write | 133 |
write | 601 | write an autobiography | 130 |
write a cover letter | 510 | write a reference letter | 129 |
write a bibliography | 467 | write a check | 123 |
write a novel | 459 | write child book | 117 |
write an essay | 433 | write a biography | 113 |
write a business plan | 390 | write a business proposal | 110 |
write a letter | 309 | cd write | 108 |
write proposal | 238 | write music | 108 |
how and to and write and business and letter | 221 | write a love letter | 99 |
write a resignation letter | 220 | write a mission statement | 97 |
write song | 220 | grant write | 96 |
write a letter of recommendation | 217 | write poetry | 95 |
write a press release | 193 | write a book report | 89 |
write a will | 190 | write resume for free | 85 |
write a research paper | 189 | write a contract | 85 |
write a screenplay | 180 | write story | 83 |
you write a thank you note | 172 | write a speech | 82 |
write a cv | 140 | write a thank you letter | 82 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "write"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skryf. (various references) | |
Albanian | shkruaj (chalk up, enter, note, pen, pencil, register), kompozoj (compose, put together). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتب (compile, compose, draft, draw up, enter, inscribe, note down, pen, prescribe, publication, record, register, write down), لحن (air, melody, set to music, tune), وضع الألحان, ألف (accustom, affect, compile, comprise, constitute, form, frequent, millenary, put together, score, thousand), دون (below, beneath, inferior, mark, mark down, nick, notch, note, put down, record, set down, stick down, take down, take notes, tally, transcribe, under, write down, write out). (various references) | |
Asturian | escribir (to write). (various references) | |
Aymara | qellpaña (to write). (various references) | |
Basque | idatzi (write to). (various references) | |
Bemba | ukulemba (to write). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | sínaaki (to write). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | композирам (compose), оставям следи, оставям белези, написвам (make, make out, produce, put down, scratch, transcribe, turn out, write out), писателствувам (be a writer, sling ink, wield the pen), пиша музика, пиша писмо, пиша (inscribe, pen, record, sling ink, writ, write down), изписвам (discharge, write for, write in for). (various references) | |
Catalan | escriure. (various references) | |
Cebuano | magsulat (to write). (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma tugé (to write). (various references) | |
Chinese | 編著 (compile), 編 (arrange, compile, compose, edit, fabricate, group, organize, plait, weave), 泐 , 撰寫 (compose), 写 (Written). (various references) | |
Cornish | scryfa (to write). (various references) | |
Croatian | piše. (various references) | |
Czech | psát (keep, say, type). (various references) | |
Danish | skrive. (various references) | |
Dutch | schrijven (writing). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | quillcana (pen, to write). (various references) | |
Esperanto | verki (compose, create), skribi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skriva (compose, create), seta saman (assemble, compose, create, link, mount, put together). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوشتن (Character, Inscribe, Pen), تحریرکردن (Redact), تالیف کردن (Compile), انشاکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | kirjoittaa (contribute to). (various references) | |
French | composer, écrire (write down, write out). (various references) | |
Frisian | skriuwe (to write). (various references) | |
German | schreiben (communication, compose, letter, make out, missive, produce, production, put, score, scribble, send away, spell, to write, type, write away, write in, write out, writing, written), verfassen (compile, compose, create, draw up), abfassen (compose, couch, create, draft, indite, to compose, to indite). (various references) | |
Greek | γράφω (pen). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לכתוב (pen, record, register), חיבר (compose, join), כתב (bill, correspondent, document, reporter, script, scripture, writing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ír (Irish, Irishman, Iriswoman, ointment, paddy, salve, to keep the score, to review, to scribble, to trace, to trail a pen, to wield the pen, to write out). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skrifa, rita. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tulis, menulis, menggores (streak), mencoret (do a pen drawing, rule). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | titiraqtuq (to write). (various references) | |
Irish | scríobh (to write). (various references) | |
Italian | scrivere (contribute, draw up, enter, inscribe, pen, put down, record, report, write down). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 造る (to, to create, to draw up, to make, to manufacture, to write), 書き添える (0317, to add, to write a postscript), 書く (to write), 作る (to create, to draw up, to make, to manufacture, to write). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かきとめる (to chronicle, to leave a note behind, to record, to write down), かきまくる (to dash off, to write freely), かきつくす (to write down or convey in full), かきつける (to write down), かきかた (how to write, way of writing), かきいれる (to carry in, to write in), かきあらわす (to express, to publish, to write out), かきあげる (to comb upwards, to finish writing, to shoulder, to write out or down), かきわける (to classify and write up, to push one's way through), よせがき (write jointly), かきとどめる (to leave a note behind, to write down), かきしるす (to record, to register, to write down), かきとる (to take dictation, to take notes, to write down), かきだす (to begin to write, to extract, to scrape out, to write out), かく (angle, beautiful passage of literature, bishop, case, character, divide, each, every, kernel, nucleus, status, stroke, to break, to chip, to crack, to depict, to describe, to draw, to lack, to paint, to perspire, to scratch, to sketch, to write), いいおくる (to send a message, to write to), あらわす (to display, to express, to indicate, to publish, to reveal, to show, to write), もうしおくる (to hand over, to send word to, to write to), もうしつかわす (to hand over, to send word to, to write to), もうしこす (to send word to, to write to), かきもらす (forget to write, leave out), つくる (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), したためる (to write up), きひつ (beginning to write), きょくをつける (to write music for a song), しょうせつをかく (to write a novel), しるす (to note, to write down), しんでかく (to write in the square style), ひつりょく (ability to write, power of the pen, strength of the brush stroke), ぶさた (neglect to call, neglect to write, neglecting to stay in contact, silence), かきくだす (to write down), ふでをとる (to draw, to pen, to write), かきそえる (to add, to write a postscript), かきたてる (to arouse, to stir up, to write up), かきすてる (to begin writing then stop part-way through, to write and throw away, to write carelessly), かきおくる (to write), かきおろす, かきおとす (to forget to write, to leave out, to scrape off), かきなおす (to make a fair copy, to write out), かきながす (to write off), |
