write
English
Verb
(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.
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
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* write one's own ticket
* write-only
* write out
* writer
* write up, write-up
* writing
Noun
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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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