noun
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The act or style of writing.
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The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
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How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
verb
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To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
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The pupil wrote his name on the paper.
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To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
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My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.
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To send written information to.
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(UK) Please write to me when you get there.
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To show (information, etc) in written form.
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The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.
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To be an author.
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I write for a living.
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(with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
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The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
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(of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
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I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
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truth written on the heart
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To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
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To sell (an option or other derivative).
Examples of write in a Sentence
I'll write something every day.
Write down exactly what you want.
Let him write the truth.
That is the way to write a composition.
Why would a woman write her name in her underwear?
Painful as it might be, she was going to have to write any plans that included Justin out of her future.
He loved poetry and soon began to write poems of his own.
Today, it lets me write these words.
He might wish he had never asked her to write her thoughts down.
Write down the names, and I'll take it down, he offered.
You write a whole series of 'A's" and 'B's" and so forth.
Now I am too tired to write more.
It is said that he could speak and write forty languages.
Every day, I write in a journal.
She didn't write down the license info—she skips that stuff unless the place is crowded.
I can write up some pain meds.
I am very happy to write to you because I think of you and love you.
I will write and tell you all the pleasant things we do.
I suppose he has been too busy to write to his little friend.
I hope I have written my letter nicely, but it is very difficult to write on this paper and teacher is not here to give me better.
I tremble to write these following lines.
So she can write about what she's dreaming?
Wasn't it difficult to write, knowing so little about what really happened?
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together.
And I will write to you, she said.
Maybe she's teaching someone else to write, he said.
I hope you will please write to me from all the cities you visit.
But I cannot see you and talk to you, so I will write and tell you all that I can think of.
She does not want me to write more today.
Teacher's eyes have been hurting her so that she could not write to any one, and I have been trying to fulfil a promise which I made last summer.
I write all my themes and examinations on it, even Greek.
Write to Kuragin demanding an explanation?
Sit down and write out the order of the day for tomorrow.
Her mind works so rapidly, that it often happens, that when I give her an example she will give me the correct answer before I have time to write out the question.
He reached for the tablet and she knew what he was going to write before she saw it.
I haven't found an account of her death in the papers yet but her hubby died of the flu in '04 and it didn't mention his wife in his write up.
An impish fear clutched my hand, so that I could not write any more that day.
If we write them down, we could get fired.
Alex signed all the time now, never bothering to write anything down.
I was compelled to write and I wrote.
As I write this, something like fifty million blogs and billions of blog posts are online.
At dinner it was read to the assembled family, who were surprised that I could write so well.
Will you please tell Harry to write me a very long letter soon?
I shall write to her in a short time.
Write to her parents, and leave it to me.
He shrugged, but made no attempt to write anything down.
Thus, to multiply x 3 -2x+1 by 2x 2 +4, we write the process +I +0-2+I +2+0+4 +2+0-4+2 +0+0 - 0+0 +4+0-8+4 +2+0+0+2-8+4 giving 2x 5 + 2x 2 -8x+4 as the result.
A little girl said she would write about "Summer."
He had died by the time I read that passage in one of his books, so I couldn't write him, as is my normal practice when an author's words puzzle me.
I could not make notes in class or write exercises; but I wrote all my compositions and translations at home on my typewriter.