Write

English Meaning

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.

1. To form (letters, words, or symbols) on a surface such as paper with an instrument such as a pen.
2. To spell: How do you write your name?
3. To form (letters or words) in cursive style.
4. To compose and set down, especially in literary or musical form: write a poem; write a prelude.
5. To draw up in legal form; draft: write a will.
6. To fill in or cover with writing: write a check; wrote five pages in an hour.
7. To express in writing; set down: write one's thoughts.
8. To communicate by correspondence: wrote that she was planning to visit.
9. To underwrite, as an insurance policy.
10. To indicate; mark: "Utter dejection was written on every face” ( Winston S. Churchill).
11. To ordain or prophesy: It was written that the empire would fall.
12. Computer Science To transfer or copy (information) from memory to a storage device or output device.
13. To trace or form letters, words, or symbols on paper or another surface.
14. To produce written material, such as articles or books.
15. To compose a letter; communicate by mail.
16. write down To set down in writing.
17. write down To reduce in rank, value, or price.
18. write down To disparage in writing.
19. write down To write in a conspicuously simple or condescending style: felt he had to write down to his students.
20. write in To cast a vote by inserting (a name not listed on a ballot).
21. write in To insert in a text or document: wrote in an apology at the end of the note.
22. write in To communicate with an organization by mail: write in with a completed entry form.
23. write off To reduce to zero the book value of (an asset that has become worthless).
24. write off To cancel from accounts as a loss.
25. write off To consider as a loss or failure: wrote off the rainy first day of the vacation.
26. write out To express or compose in writing: write out a request.
27. write out To write in full or expanded form: All abbreviations are to be written out.
28. write up To write a report or description of, as for publication.
29. write up To bring (a journal, for example) up to date.
30. write up To overstate the value of (assets).
31. write up To report (someone) in writing, as for breaking the law. wrote him up for speeding.
32. write (one's) own ticket To set one's own terms or course of action entirely according to one's own needs or wishes: an open-ended and generous scholarship that lets recipients write their own ticket.
33. writ large Signified, expressed, or embodied in a greater or more prominent magnitude or degree: "The man was no more than the boy writ large” ( George Eliot).