Write vs Explain - What's the difference?
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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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To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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, title= (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
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As verbs the difference between write and explain
is that write is (lb) to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate while explain is to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.As a noun write
is (computing) the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.write
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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.
References
* *Statistics
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English
(Explanation)Verb
(en verb)- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained .
Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
- The horse-chestnut isready to explain its leaf.
