verb
- Produce a literary work.
- usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
- Communicate or express by writing.
- usage: "Please write to me every week"
- synonyms: write
- Have (one's written work) issued for publication.
- usage: "How many books did Georges Simenon write"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
- Communicate (with) in writing.
- usage: "Write her soon, please"
- synonyms: write, drop a line
- Communicate by letter.
- usage: "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
- synonyms: write
- Write music.
- usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
- Mark or trace on a surface.
- usage: "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
- synonyms: write
- Record data on a computer.
- usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
- Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word. )
- usage: "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
- Create code, write a computer program.
- usage: "She writes code faster than anybody else"
- synonyms: write
adjective
- Set down in writing in any of various ways.
- usage: "written evidence"
- Systematically collected and written down.
- usage: "written laws"
- Written as for a film or play or broadcast.
- synonyms: scripted
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