write

Verbs

  • (v) produce a literary work
    • She composed a poem
    • He wrote four novels
    indite, pen, compose,
  • (v) communicate or express by writing
    • Please write to me every week
  • (v) have (one's written work) issued for publication
    • How many books did Georges Simenon write?
    • She published 25 books during her long career
    publish,
  • (v) communicate (with) in writing
    • Write her soon, please!
    drop a line,
  • (v) communicate by letter
    • He wrote that he would be coming soon
  • (v) write music
    • Beethoven composed nine symphonies
    compose,
  • (v) mark or trace on a surface
    • The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper
    • Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet
  • (v) record data on a computer
    • boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk
    save,
  • (v) 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
    spell,
  • (v) create code, write a computer program
    • She writes code faster than anybody else

Synonyms

indite pen compose publish drop a line save spell

See also

write out write up

Words of close approximity

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