write

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Meaning

1. To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
2. To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
3. To send written information to.
4. To show (information, etc) in written form.
5. To convey a fact to someone via writing.
6. To be an author.
7. To record data mechanically or electronically.
8. 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. To sell (an option or other derivative).
12. To paint a religious icon.

write

compose

draw

inscribe

paint

scribble

mark

pen

author

create

carve

record

draw up

indite

sign

publish

writing

copy

write down

jot

save

spell

cut

letter

engrave

compile

make

note

delineate

draw a line

drop a line

type

hand over

rewrite

set

write up

color

make out

trace

edit

scribe

scrawl

draft

decorate

book

enroll

enter

file

written

typeset

tattoo

summarize

put down

decorate pottery

prepare

scratch

mark down

take note

sketch

address

draw lines

insert

enscribe

write a letter

use

compound

synthesize

underwrite

authorship

convey

signature

jot down

transcribe

tabulate

do some writing

write about

cross

slice

enlist

enrol

regenerate

articles

editorialize

put out

bring on

bring out

carry

circulate

issue

leak

publicize

release

braille

write in

write off

build

carve out

cast

engender

establish

give birth

ramp up

throw

score

burn

capture

document

keep

tape

stele

bite

sting

report

make a note

dash off

devise

think up

picture

represent

graph

established

narrate

invent

photograph

literary work

consign

bring together

scoop

scrape

communicate

act

pierce

rain

sew

spear

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹaɪt/

From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“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 ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.