Overview of verb write

The verb write has 10 senses

• write, compose, pen, indite -- (produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels")


• write -- (communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week")


• publish, write -- (have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career")


• write, drop a line -- (communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!")


• write -- (communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon")


• compose, write -- (write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies")


• write -- (mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet")


• write, save -- (record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk")


• spell, write -- (write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter")


• write -- (create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else")

Overview of adj written

The adj written has 3 senses

• written -- (set down in writing in any of various ways; "written evidence")


• written -- (systematically collected and written down; "written laws")


• scripted, written -- (written as for a film or play or broadcast)