different between document vs write

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: d?'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/
  • (US): enPR: dä'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/
• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: d?'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/
  • (US): enPR: dä'kyo?om?nt, IPA^(key): /?d?kj?m?nt/

Noun

document (plural documents)

1. An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
2. Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
3. (computing) A file that contains text.
4. (obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
5. (obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.

Hyponyms

• here document
• Web document

Derived terms

• document-style
• here-document

Related terms

Translations

References

• document on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)

1. To record in documents.

2. To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.

Translations

Derived terms

• documentation

References

• document in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /do.ku?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /du.ku?men/

Noun

document m

1. document

Related terms

• documentar

Further reading

• “document” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “document” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “document” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “document” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do?.ky?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: do?cu?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

document n (plural documenten, diminutive documentje n)

1. document

   Synonym: bewijsstuk

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dokument
• ? Indonesian: dokumen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.ky.m??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: documents

Noun

document m (plural documents)

1. document
2. (computing) file

Derived terms

• documenter

Further reading

• “document” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum. Attested from the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?kymen/

Noun

document m (plural documents)

1. document

Related terms

• documentar

References

Piedmontese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duky?m??t/

Noun

document m

1. document

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French document, Italian documento, Latin documentum.

Noun

document n (plural documente)

1. document

English

Etymology

From Middle English writen, from Old English wr?tan (“to incise, engrave, write, draw, bestow by writing”), from Proto-West Germanic *wr?tan, from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan? (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ry? (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: r?t, IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: right, rite, wright

Verb

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

2. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
3. (transitive) To send written information to.

4. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

5. (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
6. (intransitive) To be an author.

7. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.

8. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.

9. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

10. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
11. (finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (form letters, words or symbols in order to communicate): inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely)
• (be the author of): author, pen
• (send (a letter) to): to post
• (show (information, etc) in written form): display, indicate, mark, show
• (computing: store (data)): save, store
• (fill in, complete): sit (Commonwealth)
• See also Thesaurus:write

Antonyms

• (computing: store (data)): load, read, retrieve

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

write (plural writes)

1. The act or style of writing.
   • 1938, The Bankers Monthly (volume 55, page 591)

     The pen also gives a better write than the ordinary counter pen. The ink stand cannot be stolen, for it is fastened to the counter or desk.

2. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

   How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

   • 2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)

     In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

Derived terms

• quick-write

References

• write in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• write in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• twier, twire

Middle English

Verb

write

1. Alternative form of writen

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wr?ta, from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan?. Cognate with English write, Dutch wrijten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vrit?/

Verb

write

1. to rip, to tear
2. to be painful, to sting

Inflection

Further reading

“write”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011