Writable vs Write - What's the difference?
writable | write |
Capable of being written.
Capable of being written to.
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(programming) mutable
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(lb) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
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(lb) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
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*: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.
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(lb) To show (information, etc) in written form.
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(lb) To be an author.
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To record (data) mechanically or electronically.
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To fill in, to complete using words.
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
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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.
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
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As an adjective writable
is capable of being written.As a verb write is
(lb) to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.As a noun write is
(computing) the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.writable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Are sign languages writable ?
- The file is writable only for users in the admin group.
- I burned my family's vacation photos onto a writable CD.
- The following code snippet shows how to check whether a writable database already exists, and if not, create an editable copy.
- In general, writable variables must have unique instances per processor executing a shader and therefore cannot be shared.
Antonyms
* (computing) read-onlyAlternative spellings
* writeable English autological termswrite
English
Verb
Synonyms
* inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely) * (be the author of) author, pen * to post * display, indicate, mark, show * save, store * See alsoAntonyms
* load, read, retrieveDerived 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 * writingNoun
(en noun)- How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
- 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.