Write vs Enwrite - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between write and enwrite

is that write is (lb) to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate while enwrite is to write upon something; inscribe; imprint.

As a noun write

is (computing) the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

write

English

Verb

(lb) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

(lb) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

(lb) To send written information to.

(lb) To show (information, etc) in written form.

(lb) To be an author.

To record (data) mechanically or electronically.

To fill in, to complete using words.

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.

Synonyms

* inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely) * (be the author of) author, pen * to post * display, indicate, mark, show * save, store * See also

Antonyms

* load, read, retrieve

Derived terms

* bewrite * 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

Noun

(en noun)

(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

* 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)

In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes , the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

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enwrite

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

To write upon something; inscribe; imprint.

*1905 , Iowa State Education Association, Proceedings of the Annual Session :

It is the good fortune of those who lay foundations to so inwrite their names in the annals of the institutions that they found that the historian can neither overlook them nor ignore them.

*1863 , Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe :

What wild heart histories seemed to lie enwritten / Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!