Word Finder - written

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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).

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Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

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Having been written.

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I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.

It is a little speech that I have written for him.

Disappointment was written in his face.

Surprise was written on Dean's face.

They have also written to Mr. Hitz about her.

Had Alex written off marriage completely?

Had she written a suicide note then?

There were three sets of numbers written in green ink on his palm.

Jennifer asked, caution written on her words.

Maybe it was written before she married.

I asked her what she had written to Frank.

The suicide note was written in blue ink.

Not only did it seem to him (as to all administrators) that he controlled the external actions of Moscow's inhabitants, but he also thought he controlled their mental attitude by means of his broadsheets and posters, written in a coarse tone which the people despise in their own class and do not understand from those in authority.

Before leaving, Jennifer Radisson explained that Josh had learned of Edith's new address in California—perhaps through some common friend—and had written his teenage sweetheart.

He had written many stories which people at that time liked to read.

I hope I have written my letter nicely, but it is very difficult to write on this paper and teacher is not here to give me better.

The Civil War was over thirty-odd years before this was written.

Possibly this is in reply to objections that had been made to what he had written.

Some of his poems are said to have been written in ecstasies.

In 467 the emperor Anthemius rewarded him for the panegyric which he had written in honour of him by raising him to the post of prefect of Rome, and afterwards to the dignity of a patrician and senator.

Articles written in common soon led to a complete literary partnership, and 1831 there appeared in the Revue de Paris a joint novel entitled Prima Donna and signed Jules Sand.

Her first independent novel, Indiana, was written.

In the former woman appears as the serpent whose trail is over all; in the latter, written twenty-five years after the event, she is the guardian angel abused and maltreated by men.

He was to draw up a written treatise, stating the course he proposed, and defending it by arguments from scripture, the fathers and the decrees of general councils.

The opinions of Berengar are to be ascertained from the works written in refutation of them by Adelmann, Lanfranc, Guitmund, &c. from the fragments of the De sacr.

The typical fighting costume of the Malay is a sleeveless jacket with texts from the Koran written upon it, short tight drawers reaching to the middle of the thigh, and the sarong is then bound tightly around the waist, leaving the hilt of the dagger worn in the girdle exposed to view.

Marca's biography was written in Latin by two of his intimate friends, Etienne Baluze, his secretary (Epistola ad Samuelem Sorbierium, de vita, gestis et scriptis Petri de Marca, Paris, 1663), and his cousin, Paul de Faget (at the beginning of a collection of Marca's theological pamphlets, first published by Paul de Faget in 1668).

Her name was written on the obelisk.

Some part of him had known long before he saw her name written.

Every emotion she experienced used to be written on her face.

As deputy he had no vote, and he naturally took little share in the debates, but it was part of his duty to send written reports of the proceedings to his patron, since the government, with a well-grounded fear of all that might stir popular feeling, refused to allow any published reports.

The poem runs to over goo lines and is written in eight-lined stanzas.

Follen was the author of several celebrated patriotic songs written in the interests of liberty.

It was written by Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and Thomas Norton in collaboration.

Although the first definite endeavour to locate the Golden Chersonese thus dates from the middle of the 2nd century of our era, the name was apparently well known to the learned of Europe at a somewhat earlier period, and in his Antiquities of the Jews, written during the latter half of the 1st century, Josephus says that Solomon gave to the pilots furnished to him by Hiram of Tyre commands " that they should go along with his stewards to the land that of old was called Ophir, but now the Aurea Chersonesus, which belongs to India, to fetch gold."

In a letter to the city, possibly written by Cromwell himself, the officers repudiated any wish to alter the civil government or upset the establishment of Presbyterianism, but demanded religious toleration.

His journals, which were written for his family and intimate friends, give a singularly interesting and vivid picture of life in Paris in the time of the directory.

The `EAXnvucwv OEpairEvruo lraen,uhTwv (De Curandis Graecorum Affectionibus) - written before 438 - is of an historical and apologetic character, very largely indebted to Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius; it aims at showing the advantages of Christianity as compared with " the moribund but still militant " Hellenism of the day, and deals with the assaults of pagan adversaries.

The edition of Sirmond (Paris, 1642) was afterwards completed by Garnier (1684), who has also written dissertations on the author's works.

It contains over 40,000 articles written by over 1,500 authors within their various fields of expertise.

What was particularly remarkable was that many of the entries were written by the most famous people of the age.

Nothing else is known of his life except that he was the author of a Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis, or Chronicon Hierosolymitanum de bello sacro, a work in twelve books, written between 1125 and 1150.

The new comedy of Greece was probably limited for the most part to scenes written in the metres of dialogue; it remained for Plautus, as Leo has shown, to enliven his plays with cantica modelled on the contemporary lyric verse of Greece or Magna Graecia, which was in its turn a development of the dramatic lyrics of Euripides.

Ben Jonson produced a skilful amalgamation of the Aulularia and the Captivi in his early play The Case is Altered (written before 1599).

Some of his finest tragedies were written for her, but her repertoire was not confined to them, and many an indifferent play - like Thomas Corneille's Ariane and Comte d'Essex - owed its success to "her natural manner of acting, and her pathetic rendering of the hapless heroine."

The biography of St Francis de Sales was written immediately after his death by the celebrated P. de La Riviere and Dom John de St Francois (Goulu), as well as by two other authors of less importance.

Heinrich Schiitz's Lamentatio Davidi is written for a bass voice accompanied by four trombones and organ.

There seems no good reason why in modern performances the pianoforte should not be used for the purpose; if only accompanists can be trained to acquire the necessary delicacy of touch, and can be made to understand that, if they cannot extemporize the necessary polyphony, and so have to play something definitely written for them, it is not a mass of interesting detail which they are to bring to the public ear.

The date of this famous letter was 1767, but after Alceste Gluck was still able to use material from earlier work; and the overture to Armide is adapted from that of Telemacco, written in the year of Bach's death (1750).

In the treatment of the orchestra volumes might be written about Haydn's and Mozart's sense of fitness, as shown in Haydn's experiments and Mozart's settled methods.

Haydn's numerous examples of independent violoncello melodies are almost all either marked solo or written for such small orchestras that they would be played as solos.