Writing: Definition and part of speech

Writing

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Write
  2. n. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.
  3. n. Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters
  4. n. Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.
  5. n. Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.
  6. n. An inscription.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Write: Definition and part of speech

Write

  1. v. i. To compose or send letters.
  2. v. t. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
  3. v. t. To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
  4. v. t. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
  5. v. t. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
  6. v. t. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one’s own written testimony; — often used reflexively.
  7. v. i. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
  8. v. i. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
  9. v. i. To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Writer: Definition and part of speech

Writer

  1. n. A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
  2. n. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
  3. n. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Writ: Definition and part of speech

Writ

  1. n. An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.
  2. obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
  3. imp. & p. p. of Write.
  4. n. That which is written; writing; scripture; — applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.