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Definition of Write

Write

  1. 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.
  2. To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
  3. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
  4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
  5. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
  6. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
  7. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
  8. To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
  9. To compose or send letters.

Write Quotations

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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Write Translations

write in Afrikaans is skryf
write in Dutch is neerschrijven, schrijven, uitschrijven
write in Finnish is laatia, kirjoittaa
write in German is schreiben
write in Italian is vergare, scrivere
write in Norwegian is skrive
write in Portuguese is escrever, escreva
write in Spanish is escribir

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