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write(verb)BrE / raɪt / NAmE / raɪt / - to make letters or numbers on a surface, especially using a pen or a pencil
- In some countries children don't start learning to read and write until they are six.
- Please write in pen on both sides of the paper.
- I haven't got anything to write with.
- Write your name at the top of the paper.
- The teacher wrote the answers on the board.
- The ‘b’ had been wrongly written as a ‘d’.
- to produce something in written form so that people can read, perform or use it, etc.
- to write a novel/a song/an essay/a computer program, etc.
- Who was ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ written by?
- Which opera did Verdi write first?
- He hopes to write a book about his experiences one day.
- She had to write a report on the project.
- I wanted to travel and then write about it.
- He writes for the ‘New Yorker’ (= works as a writer).
- No decision has been made at the time of writing.
- She wrote him several poems.
- to put information, a message of good wishes, etc. in a letter and send it to somebody
- Bye! Don't forget to write.
- Can you write and confirm your booking?
- I'm writing to enquire about language courses.
- She wrote to him in France.
- I wrote a letter to the Publicity Department.
- I wrote the Publicity Department a letter.
- She wrote that they were all fine.
- Write me while you're away.
- He wrote me that he would be arriving Monday.
- They wrote thanking us for the present.
- to state the information or the words mentioned
- In his latest book he writes that the theory has since been disproved.
- Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.
- ‘Of all my books,’ wrote Dickens, ‘I like this the best.’
- to put information in the appropriate places on a cheque or other form
- to write out a cheque
- I'll write you a receipt.
- The doctor wrote her a prescription for more antibiotics.
- to record data in the memory of a computer
- An error was reported when he tried to write data to the file for the first time.
- to work correctly or in the way mentioned
- to be very obvious to other people from the expression on somebody’s face
- Guilt was written all over his face.
- to show clearly the quality mentioned or the influence of the person mentioned
- It was a performance with star quality written all over it.
- This essay has got Mike written all over it.
- not especially good; ordinary
- The team’s performance was nothing to write home about.
- having no value, especially legally, or because one of the people involved has no intention of doing what they said they would
- used when you are stating that there is nothing more that can be said about something or that something is completely finished
- We were doing well but we ran out of money and that’s all she wrote.
Extra Examples- After ‘Tom Sawyer’, Twain went on to write several other classic books.
- Children must learn to write neatly.
- Doris writes with verve and wit.
- He decided to write off for the brochure.
- He had an extra clause written into his contract.
- He has been commissioned to write a history of the town.
- He has written extensively on the subject.
- He set out to write a short book on taxation.
- He still writes to me regularly.
- He writes on political issues.
- He wrote a list on the back of an old envelope.
- He wrote in his journal.
- He wrote to the editor of the newspaper.
- Her novel was written under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
- I write with an old fashioned pen.
- I’d better write this down, otherwise I’ll forget it.
- She was busily writing in a notebook.
- She was busily writing in an exercise book.
- She was inspired to write the poem by a visit to the cathedral.
- She writes for ‘The New York Times’.
- She wrote back to him the next day.
- She wrote in Arabic.
- She wrote of her life in Africa.
- The role was written specifically for Rita Hayworth.
- The words were written in black ink.
- a journalist who writes about problems in the developing world
- an art critic who writes regularly in the French daily ‘Le Figaro’
- history written from the perspective of the losers
- the ability to write clearly in plain English
- Anicent historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.
- He writes for ‘The New Yorker’.
- I haven’t got anything to write with.
- I’ll write you a receipt.
- In his latest book he writes that the theory has since been disproved.
- In some countries children don’t start learning to read and write until they are six.
- No decision had been made at the time of writing.
- Please write clearly in black ink.
- Someone had written a slogan on the wall.
- Students will be expected to write their own computer programs.
- The ‘b’ had been wrongly written as a ‘d’.
- We teach children to write when they are about six.
- Who was ‘Robinson Crusoe’ written by?
- Write your answer out again on a new sheet of paper.
- Write your name at the top of the page.
Verb Forms- present simple I / you / we / they write
- he / she / it writes
- past simple wrote
- past participle written
- -ing form writing
Word Origin- Old English wrītan ‘score, form (letters) by carving, write’, of Germanic origin; related to German reissen ‘sketch, drag’.
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