Found 3 items, similar to Write.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: write mencoret, menggores, menulis, tulis
English → English (WordNet) Definition: write write v 1: produce a literary work; “She composed a poem”; “He wrote four novels” [syn: compose, pen, indite] 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” [syn: publish] 4: communicate (with) in writing; “Write her soon, please!” [syn: drop a line] 5: communicate by letter; “He wrote that he would be coming soon” 6: write music; “Beethoven composed nine symphonies” [syn: compose] 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” [syn: spell] [also: wrote, written]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Write Write \Write\, v. t. [imp. Wrote; p. p. Written; Archaic imp. & p. p. Writ; p. pr. & vb. n. Writing.] [OE. writen, AS. wr[=i]tan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS. wr[=i]tan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. r[=i]zan, Icel. r[=i]ta to write, Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf. Race tribe, lineage.] [1913 Webster] 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures. [1913 Webster] 2. To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter. [1913 Webster] Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her I loved. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author. [1913 Webster] I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart. [1913 Webster] 5. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively. [1913 Webster] He who writes himself 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. --Milton. [1913 Webster] To write to, to communicate by a written document to. Written laws, laws deriving their force from express legislative enactment, as contradistinguished from unwritten, or common, law. See the Note under Law, and Common law, under Common, a. [1913 Webster] Write \Write\, v. i. 1. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] So it stead you, I will write, Please you command. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices. [1913 Webster] 3. To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose. [1913 Webster] They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors. --Felton. [1913 Webster] 4. To compose or send letters. [1913 Webster] He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom. --1 Esdras iv. 49. [1913 Webster]