Write

Verb



 * 1)  To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
 * The pupil wrote his name on the paper.
 * Your son has been writing on the wall.
 * 1)  To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
 * My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.
 * 1)  To send written information to.
 * (UK) Please write to me when you get there.
 * (US) Please write me when you get there.
 * 1)  To show (information, etc) in written form.
 * The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.
 * 1)  To be an author.
 * I write for a living.
 * 1)  To record (data) mechanically or electronically.
 * The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
 * 1)  To fill in, to complete using words.

Synonyms

 * inscribe, scrawl, scribble
 * author, pen
 * to post
 * display, indicate, mark, show
 * save, store
 * See also Thesaurus:write

Antonyms

 * load, read, retrieve

Derived terms

 * co-write
 * hand-written
 * nothing to write home about
 * overwrite
 * rewrite
 * that's all she wrote
 * underwrite


 * who writes this stuff?
 * write down, write-down
 * write head
 * write in, write-in
 * write off, write-off
 * write once
 * write one's own ticket


 * write-only
 * write out
 * writer
 * write up, write-up
 * writing

Adverbs for Write
diplomatically; admirably; bombastically; trenchantly; graphically; crudely; barbarously; devastatingly; convincingly; pornographically; scintillatingly; profusely; magnanimously; scientifically; laboriously; ironically; irresolutely; irresistibly; pretentiously; tremulously;  elegantly;  desultorily; anonymously;  satirically;   hypothetically; harshly; affectionately; expressly; faultlessly; industriously; legibly; prosaically; salaciously; erotically; sensuously; contemporaneously; authoritatively; genially; avidly; solemnly; incoherently; vigorously; urgently; dogmatically; didactically; eclectically; voluminously; inscrutably; realistically; cynically.

Thesaurus
adapt, arrange, assemble, author, book, bring to life, build, calendar, carve, cast, catalog, catch a likeness, chalk, chalk up, character, characterize, chart, check in, chronicle, coauthor, collaborate, communicate with, compose, compound, concoct, construct, copy, copy out, correspond, correspond with, create, cut, dash off, delineate, depict, describe, devise, diagram, docket, draft, draw, draw up, drop a line, edit, editorialize, elaborate, enface, engrave, engross, enroll, enscroll, enter, erect, evoke, evolve, exchange letters, express, extrude, fabricate, fashion, file, fill out, form, formulate, frame, free-lance, fudge together, get up, ghost, ghostwrite, give words to, grave, harmonize, hit off, impanel, incise, index, indite, inscribe, insert, instrument, instrumentate, jot, jot down, knock off, knock out, limn, list, log, make, make a memorandum, make a note, make a recension, make an adaptation, make an entry, make out, make up, manufacture, map, mark down, matriculate, mature, melodize, minute, mold, musicalize, notate, note, note down, novelize, orchestrate, outline, paint, pamphleteer, patch together, pen, pencil, picture, picturize, piece together, place upon record, poll, portray, post, post up, prefabricate, prepare, print, produce, push the pen, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, put to music, put together, put up, raise, rear, recense, record, reduce to writing, register, render, represent, revise, rewrite, rub, run up, scenarize, schematize, score, scratch, scrawl, scribble, scribe, scrive, scroll, send a note, set, set down, set forth, set to music, set up, shape, sketch, spill ink, spoil paper, superscribe, symbolize, tabulate, take a rubbing, take down, tape, tape-record, throw on paper, trace, trace out, trace over, transcribe, transpose, type, use the mails, videotape, whomp up, write down, write in, write out, write to, write up

Etymology
writan:, from, possibly from rītsan, rīzan, meaning to scratch or mark. Cognate with Dutch rijten:, German reißen:, ritzen:, Norwegian rita:

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skryf
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጻፈ, ደረሰ
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܟܬܒ (kātēb)
 * Hebrew:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: пісаць
 * Bengali: লেখা
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Faroese:, skriva
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: წერა
 * German:
 * Greek: (gráfo)
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, rita
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: សរសេរ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Ladino:
 * Icelandic:, rita
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: សរសេរ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Ladino:
 * Ladino:


 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: rakstīt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: ciska
 * Macedonian: пишува
 * Marathi: लिहिणें
 * Mongolian: бичих
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Norse:
 * Ossetic:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਲਿਖਣਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: लिख्
 * Serbian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: писати, pisati
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: písať
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: ngola
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, isulat
 * Tajik: навиштан
 * Telugu: వ్రాయు రాయు (raayu) (1), రచించు (rachiMchu) (2)
 * Thai:, ขีด
 * Tok Pisin:, raitim
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: שרײַבן
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, isulat
 * Tajik: навиштан
 * Telugu: వ్రాయు రాయు (raayu) (1), రచించు (rachiMchu) (2)
 * Thai:, ขีด
 * Tok Pisin:, raitim
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: שרײַבן
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: שרײַבן


 * Arabic: (kátaba)
 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: (naar)
 * Esperanto: skribi al
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: à
 * German:
 * Greek: (gráfo) (+ σε)
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: scríobh chuig
 * Italian: a
 * Japanese: 書く (かく, kaku)
 * Latin:
 * Lojban: te xatra
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: a
 * Swedish: (till)


 * Afrikaans: skryf
 * Arabic: (kátaba)
 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , forfatte (usually not used)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: ŋlɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, verfassen, ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian: ; megír
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Lojban: ciska
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: A scrie
 * Russian: ,
 * Sotho: ngola
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: kiír


 * Japanese: 書く (かく, kaku), 示す (shimesu)
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kirjanik olema (belles-lettres); literaat olema
 * Ewe: ŋlɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: 書く (かく, kaku)
 * Latin:
 * Lojban: ciska
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, (works of fiction)
 * Welsh: llocio


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: enregistrer
 * Hungarian: ír; megír (record onto a specific data storage, e.g. DVD); kiír (record a specific data item)


 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: 書込む (かきこむ, kakikomu)
 * Latin:
 * Lojban: vreji
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,


 * : ai (h-) (1)


 * : scriber (1, 2)
 * :, 필기하다

Anagrams

 * twier