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authors
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???.??z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??.??z/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??.??z/
- Hyphenation: au?thors
Noun
authors
- plural of author
Verb
authors
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of author
authors From the web:
writer
English
Etymology
From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wr?tere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ?ewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write +? -er and writ +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??a?.t?/, [???a?t??]
- (US) IPA(key): /??a?.t??/, [???????]
- Rhymes: -a?t?(?)
- Homophone: rider (in some accents)
Noun
writer (plural writers)
- A person who writes, or produces literary work.
- Anything that writes or produces output.
- 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)
- If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever
println
is called.
- If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever
- 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)
- (finance) The seller of an option.
- (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
- (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
- (US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
- Synonyms: ship writer, ship's writer
Synonyms
- author
- See also Thesaurus:writer
Derived terms
Related terms
- write
- writing
Translations
Anagrams
- rewrit, werrit
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wryter, writere, wrytter, wrytere, wrijtere
Etymology
From Old English wr?tere; can be synchronically analysed as writen +? -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wri?t?r(?)/
Noun
writer (plural writers)
- A draughtsman, or copyist; one who notes down the words of another.
- A record-keeper or annalist; one who records significant events.
- A writer or author; one who writes.
- (rare) One who produces a translation.
Related terms
- writen
Descendants
- English: writer
- Scots: writer
References
- “wr?ter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-30.
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