Write vs Jot - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between write and jot

is that write is to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate while jot is (usually with "down") To write quickly.

As nouns the difference between write and jot

is that write is the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk while jot is an iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle.

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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jot

English

Noun

(en noun)

An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle.

He didn't care a jot for his work.

* Bible, Matthew v. 18

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

* Shakespeare

Neither will they bate / One jot of ceremony.

A brief and hurriedly written note.

* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:

"I say, it is no uneven jot , to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical'' life to the more considerable effects of ''general Motion'' in ''Minerals'', ''Metalls'', and sundry ''Meteors "

Synonyms

*(small amount) see also .

Derived terms

* every jot and tittle * not a jot or tittle

Verb

(jott)

(usually with "down") To write quickly.

Tell me your order, so I can jot it down.

Derived terms

* jot down