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write
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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
- (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
- (transitive) To send written information to.
- (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
- (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
- (intransitive) To be an author.
- (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
- (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
- To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
- To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
- (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)
- 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.
- 1938, The Bankers Monthly (volume 55, page 591)
- (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
- 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
- to rip, to tear
- to be painful, to sting
Inflection
Further reading
“write”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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redraft
English
Etymology
re- +? draft
Verb
redraft (third-person singular simple present redrafts, present participle redrafting, simple past and past participle redrafted)
- To draft again
Noun
redraft (plural redrafts)
- A second or subsequent draft
- (finance) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or endorsers, for the amount of the bill, with costs and charges.
Anagrams
- drafter
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