noun
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The act or style of writing.
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The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
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How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
verb
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To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
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The pupil wrote his name on the paper.
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To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
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My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.
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To send written information to.
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(UK) Please write to me when you get there.
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To show (information, etc) in written form.
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The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.
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To be an author.
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I write for a living.
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(with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
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The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
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(of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
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I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
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truth written on the heart
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To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
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To sell (an option or other derivative).
Examples of writes in a Sentence
I think if he writes, I will write too, she said, blushing.
She writes with fair speed and absolute sureness.
She writes itsy-bitsy numbers.
She writes so differently than what you'd expect, given her circumstances—where she is and what she's doing.
Constant practice makes the fingers very flexible, and some of my friends spell rapidly--about as fast as an expert writes on a typewriter.
Dinnik writes on the fauna in Bull.
His style is clear, absolutely unadorned, and somewhat lacking in force; he appeals constantly to the intellect rather than to the emotions, and is seldom picturesque, though in describing a few famous scenes, such as the execution of Charles I., he writes with pathos and dignity.
He also writes a weekly column for The Glasgow Herald.
To the poster who writes limericks, good poem!
December 22, [1898] ...I suppose Mr. Keith writes you the work-a-day news.
He also plays piano and guitar, and writes music.
He writes to correspondents making enquiries about the tides in the Euxine and Caspian Seas.
Never more than a nominal wife at most, the unfortunate Stella commonly passed for his mistress till the day of her death (in her will she writes herself spinster), bearing her doom with uncomplaining resignation, and consoled in some degree by unquestionable proofs of the permanence of his love, if his feeling for her deserves the name.
After the Directions he writes little beyond occasional verses, not seldom indecent and commonly trivial.
All this points to the position of a "conservative" or semi-Arian of the East, one who belongs, perhaps, to the circle of Lucian of Antioch and writes before the time of Julian.
Of the detestable Tiptoft he writes that there flowered in.
But it had attained the rank of a Christian university; and in this treatise Origen does not furnish milk for babes; he writes for himself and for like-minded friends.
In his Life of Lord George Bentinck he writes of Peel fairly and even generously.
Itakkama writes thus to the Pharaoh, 5 " Behold, Namyawaza has surrendered all the cities of the king, my lord, to the SA-GAS in the land of Kadesh and in Ubi.
Polybius is careful constantly to remind us that he writes for those who are CALXoµaO€is lovers of knowledge, with whom truth is the first consideration.
Anyway, she writes - " I bet you've never had an aardvark before " .
You may wish to use an amanuensis (somebody who writes down your words ), a computer or tape recorder.
She edited the acclaimed anthology Sixty Women Poets in 1993 and writes a regular feature on the craft of poetry for Mslexia magazine.
Here Handel writes an aria of operatic dramatic proportions.
No one breed dominated this year's May beef sales at Borderway, writes auctioneer David Dickinson.
Emotional and uplifting, without ever indulging in trite sentimentality, Tim Pare writes bittersweet, confessional love songs.
By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
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He writes about it sensitively, with due modesty and a sensible regard for the precise chronology, the details, the sensations.
An aggregate collectivity, Peter French writes, is " merely a collection of people " (French 1984, p. 5 ).
Fine writes about a serious subject with a deftness of touch that is at times darkly comic.
A friend of mine who writes horror comics agreed.
He reads well, can do simple math, writes a messy cursive and of course is a delight to his family.
Each week, our mayor writes a brief diary about his previous week.
The British dossier instead writes " 30,000 to 40,000 " .
The frustration for fans lies with the fact that King writes these human foibles all too well in his novels.
The title of my thesis was The modeling of solid oxide fuel cells for power generation, ' writes Ben Todd.
This advocacy of Christianity is all the more amusing from someone who writes in the name of a Norse god.
Josephus writes that the High Priest wore a headpiece on which... ...was engraved the sacred name.
On 17 August 1914, Arthur writes, 'This is absolutely hellish.
Or the bloke who writes the horoscopes for the Sun.
Nicolson writes about the challenge of moving from the hectic London life to the quiet rural idyll which is the title of the book.
The Gabriel he writes about, and the Colombia in which he grows up, both seem very familiar and very immediate.
Despite the occasional stylistic infelicity and the overuse of the first person singular, Nettle writes well.
She writes of the ' twisted ' interpretation of Zen koans.
He writes ' It goes against the grain for a scientist to be so intellectually lazy.
She writes the stuff, they said, all night - we should impose a levy.
Punk writes a virtual manifesto for the brave new world.
Some people hang on every word Jakob writes, whereas some detest his apparent omniscience regarding the world wide web.
Mr Brown writes an Op-Ed in the FT on the global economy and does not mention domestic politics.