Word Finder - writer

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A person who writes, or produces literary work.

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Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!

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Anything that writes or produces output.

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The seller of an option.

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A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

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An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.

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A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.

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• ship writer
• ship's writer

She had a short career as a writer.

Surely the writer must become as a little child to see things like that.

Neat writer, ain't he?

The duties of a young "writer" were then such as are implied in the name.

He particularly reverenced the writer and the preacher.

Langen was more celebrated as a writer than as a speaker.

As a writer he displayed great versatility.

Jonathan Swift, often called Dean Swift, was famous as a writer on many subjects.

To him Homer was a great writer, though what his writing was about he did not know.

Maximilian was also a writer of books, and his writings display his inordinate vanity.

Ethel Reagan, the writer, noted the tips were telephoned from various locations across the country and provided by both men and women.

No one has better understood or more skilfully portrayed the artistic temperament - the musician, the actor, the poet - and no French writer before her had so divined and laid bare the heart of a girl.

Bonaparte and Professor Schlegel (1850), though it excludes many birds which an English writer would call "grosbeaks."

Lydgate is a most voluminous writer.

Miss Keller has a braille writer on which she keeps notes and writes letters to her blind friends.

Taking opossums to have been the ancestors of the group, the author considers that the present writer may be right in his view that marsupials entered Australia from Asia by way of New Guinea.

It is from a similar standpoint that Aaron is condemned for the manufacture of the golden calf, and a compiler (not the original writer) finds its sequel in the election of the faithful Levites.'

The writer of Acts ii., anxious to prove that Providence from the first included the Gentiles in the Messianic Kingdom, assumes that the gift of tongues was a miraculous faculty of talking strange languages without having previously learned them.

But Suarez is much more moderate on this point than a writer like Mariana, approximating to the modern view of the rights of ruler and ruled.

The next writer of note is John Mortimer, whose Whole Art of Husbandry, a regular, systematic work of considerable merit, was published in 1707.

The Spartans were happy, said the writer, because they had plenty of good, suitable clothing and lodging, robust women, and were able to meet their requirements both physical and mental.

According to this writer the Druids held the mistletoe in the highest veneration.

This newly discovered inheritance of " variation in the tendency to react " has a wide application and has led the present writer to coin the word " educability."

As a writer he is chiefly known as the reputed author of a collection of martyrologies which cover the reigns of Sapor II., Yazdegerd I.

The episode had a deadening effect on Helen Keller and on Miss Sullivan, who feared that she had allowed the habit of imitation, which has in truth made Miss Keller a writer, to go too far.

He was an enthusiastic, but a fickle and ambitious demagogue, and he achieved a better reputation as a writer.

He had married in 1905 Miss Ethel Annikin, who became well known as a speaker and writer on social subjects.

For it is impossible to accept the theory of one writer that they sailed or rowed round the continent - a journey requiring enormous maritime skill, which, according to the theory, they must have promptly lost.

Thus he came at length to stand on the verge of the Indian Ocean; " gazing upon it," a writer has said, " with as much delight as Balboa, when he crossed the Isthmus of Darien from the Atlantic to the Pacific."

He commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press in connexion with the Morning Chronicle, and he afterwards became a leading contributor to the Examiner and the Daily News.

At present we can only be certain that the criterion according to which Brahms, being a symphonic writer, has no mastery of orchestration whatever, is not a criterion compatible with any sense of symphonic style.

This method has the advantage of distinctness, and so is writer less trying to the eyes of the operators.

It was found impossible to make the Morse ink writer so sensitive that it could record signals sent over land lines of several hundred miles in length, if the speed of transmission was very much faster than that which could be effected by hand, and this led to the adoption of automatic methods of transmission.

The Creed system is a development of the Morse-Wheatstone system, and provides a keyboard perforator which punches Morse letters or figures on a paper strip by depressing type writer keys.

Empiricism is restated by Paley, who is Kant's younger contemporary as a man and also on the whole as a writer.

The theistic writers are usually intuitionalists; but it has been urged above that a fruitful study of theism must in each case inquire what is the writer's philosophical basis.

This idea of the air as the original principle and source of life and intelligence is much more clearly expressed by a later writer, Diogenes of Apollonia.

By this writer the world is explained as a product of three principles - dead matter, and two active forces, heat and cold.

There is, however, one writer who sets forth so clearly the alternative suppositions respecting the origin of the world that he claims a brief notice.

According to this writer, existence is nothing but a becoming, and matter is simply the momentary product of the process of becoming, while force is this process constantly revealing itself in these products.

This writer traces their origin to the 14th century; but the procedure does not seem to have become regularized or common till the reigns of Louis XII.

The present writer has suggested that the word Pali should be reserved for the language of the canon, and other words used for the earlier and later forms of it; 1 but the usage generally followed is so convenient that there is little likelihood of the suggestion being followed.

This argument was tacitly accepted or explicitly avowed by almost every writer on the theory of geography, and Carl Ritter distinctly recognized and adopted it as the unifying principle of his system.

Jerome's work was continued successively by Gennadius of Marseilles, Isidore of Seville, and Ildefonsus of Toledo; the last-named writer brings the list down to the middle of the 7th century.

In one of the testimonials which accompanied his application to the trustees of Rugby, the writer stated it as his conviction that "if Mr Arnold were elected, he would change the face of education all through the public schools of England."

But no great writer and no great administrator came from Narbonensis; itinerant lecturers and journalists alone were produced in plenty, and at times minor poets.

Some idea of his activity as a writer on mathematical and physical subjects during these early years may be gathered from the fact that previous to this appointment he had contributed no less than three important memoirs to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and eight to the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

The strictness of the principle of admission or exclusion differs at the various German courts, and has tended to be modified by the growth of a new aristocracy of wealth; but a single instance known to the present writer may serve to illustrate the fundamental divergence of German (a fortiori Austrian) ideas from English in this matter.

The writer nowhere finds consolation in any Christian belief, and Christ is never named in the work.

Certainly no early writer thought of providing material for such use.