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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 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. 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. Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves. --Shak. I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her I loved. --Prior. 3. Hence to compose or produce, as an author. 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. 4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as truth written on the heart. 5. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively. 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. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. So it stead you I will write, Please you command. --Shak. 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. 3. To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose. They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors. --Felton. 4. To compose or send letters. He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom. --1 Esdras iv 49. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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 [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}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: write 1.{Unix}'s simple {talk} command and {protocol}. write has been largely superceded by {talk} and then {irc}. An enhancement, {RWP}, has been proposed. 2. A simple {text editor} for {Windows}. (1998-04-28)
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