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write
Verb
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(computer) If a computer writes, it records something in its memory or on a disk.
Old computers were much slower at writing files.
rate
Noun
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Speed. A rate is how fast something happens. Something can go at a fast rate or a slow rate.
The rate of water pouring out of the lake into the river is enough to make the lake empty in a year if it doesn't rain.
Her heart rate is 70 beats every minute.
If we keep writing pages at this rate we might have 2000 Simple English Wiktionary words by August 4.
rate
Verb
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Someone rates something when they decide how much its value is (how much it's worth).
I rate this book at six out of ten: it was not the best book.