different between write vs typewriter

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

English

Etymology

From type +? writer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?ta?p??a?t?(?)]

Noun

typewriter (plural typewriters)

1. A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
2. (archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
3. (US, dated, slang) A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
4. A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.

Synonyms

• typographer
• (one who uses a typewriter): typist

Derived terms

Related terms

• type
• typewrite
• typist
• write

Translations

See also

• touch-typist