Write
- v. i. To compose or send letters.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. t. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
- v. t. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
- v. t. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one’s own written testimony; — often used reflexively.
- v. i. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
- 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.
- 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. <
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.