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Meaning write meaning

What does write mean?
Definitions in simple English

write Verb

— If you write a book, an article, a computer program, a piece of music, etc., you create it. My dream is to write a children's book. Mozart wrote over 600 pieces of music during his lifetime. He can't write. He's a terrible writer. In the article, the author writes that these things need to change. — If you write, you use letters, numbers, or other marks on paper or on a computer to show words. Can you write your name and phone number here for me? Our teacher taught us to write beautifully. It's amazing how many people can't read and write. Do you have any paper to write on? Listen to what I say and write it down. — If you write, you send a letter to someone. Please, phone or write me when you have some time. She would write to Mom every week and give her all the details. — (computer) If a computer writes, it records something in its memory or on a disk. Old computers were much slower at writing files.

write

— verb (= compose) produce a literary work She composed a poem He wrote four novels — verb communicate or express by writing Please write to me every week — verb (= publish) have (one's written work) issued for publication How many books did Georges Simenon write? She published 25 books during her long career — verb communicate (with) in writing Write her soon, please! — verb communicate by letter He wrote that he would be coming soon — verb (= compose) write music Beethoven composed nine symphonies — verb 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 — verb record data on a computer boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk — verb (= spell) 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 — verb create code, write a computer program She writes code faster than anybody else

Synonyms write synonyms

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compose draw inscribe scribble paint mark pen author create record indite draw up carve sign publish writing write down spell save jot copy type rewrite register note make letter hand over engrave drop a line draw a line delineate cut compile written write up trace set scribe scrawl print make out file enter enroll edit draft decorate color book

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Topics write topics

What do people use write to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Write
Social behavior Social activity Music

Compose music
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Describe

Conjugation write conjugation

How do you conjugate write?

write · verb

Examples write examples

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Simple sentences

At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
I have to write a letter. Do you have some paper?
Write with pen and ink.
Ann likes to write poems.
Can you write a letter in English?
Come and write your name.
Please write down your name.
I will write down your name and address.
I am going to write about our parks and mountains.
I wish he would write more often.
I was just going to write a letter when he came home.
She was different from most women in the neighborhood, for she was able to read and write.
Please write it down.
Most people write about their daily life.
Didn't you write a letter to him?
Since you like to write letters, why don't you drop her a line?
Write your name in capitals.
Write your address here.
It is right that you should write it.
No matter how busy he was while living abroad, he never failed to write home to his parents at least once a week.
We learn to read and write.
We disputed for hours about what to write.
You write a very good hand.

Movie subtitles

Total write-off.
Hey, do you want to write a novel?
I'm gonna write that down.
Look, I'll write down my details for you.
You should write novels, detective.
I keep looking at the Mullucks and wishing I could just write a prescription for a pill to make everything better.
We can write.
I wouldn't advise the intermingling of lips on this particular doorstep, but you may write our initials with a sparkler later on.
I'm sure she'll write personally, as soon as she's able.
Oh, I've decided to write to my sister and borrow her cream two-piece that she wears for parish high days and holidays.
Did Cal write the last three rungs?
Can you read and write?
I'm sure he'll write back when he can. - Yeah.
My father didn't have a son, so he taught me to read and write like a boy.
I'd like to see you write Arabic!
He can't write Arabic either!
You write for this rag?
I'll write every day and tell you what's happening.
I hope you'll write a nice article.
I'll write him what I think.
I need you to write down the location of each drop you've made.
Why would she write down a mathematical formula?
Write: premises are lacking for collective seeds and livestock, but not wonderful buildings for the kulaks.
Did you write this?
He'll certainly write about his first impressions. and first impressions are always most important.
What do they write?
I SHOULD WRITE THAT DOWN.
I'll write to your wife. I'll write to her.
Well, now you can buy an envelope and a two-cent stamp and you can write home and tell Mama.
He must write, tell him.
Where should I write?

News and current affairs

His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity.
PARIS - The newspaper commentaries that I write often have a dark perspective.
We must write and enforce laws that restore credibility to our financial markets.
Not long after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, these liberal reformers joined with 160 other professionals to write and sign a petition to Crown Prince Abdullah asking for reforms.
BERKELEY - It is hard right now to write about American political economy.
In such cases, all creditors would be better off with a debt write-down than with dissolution.
Until recently, many professional economists would be reluctant to write a popular book.
And every quarter brought new write-offs that ruined efforts to rebuild the bank's reputation and its employees' morale.
Above all, any realistic strategy for dealing with the eurozone crisis must involve massive write-downs (forgiveness) of peripheral countries' debt.
This is hardly the first time I have stressed the need for wholesale debt write-downs.
Debt write-downs and guarantees will inevitably bloat Germany's government debt, as the authorities are forced to bail out German banks (and probably some neighboring countries' banks).
Those who would write off the euro as a failure should consider that it is only ten years old.
Either we will write this history ourselves, or we will suffer through a dark era that could have been avoided.
The main parties write their own anti-trust legislation, vote their own subsidies, and choose their own elected officials.
I write this in the 88th year of my life, but not because I have learned from experience.
Iraqis have elected their own representatives and are poised to write their constitution.
The second major shock came with Argentina's currency collapse of 2002-3, after which Argentina's government demanded an extremely large debt write-off.
Second, bankruptcy reform is needed to allow homeowners to write down the value of their homes and stay in their houses.
But we shouldn't allow American politicians who do not even possess passports to write us off with the same patronizing sneer that some Europeans used to reserve for President George W. Bush's administration and policies.

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