transcription, транскрипция: [ raɪt ]
( writes, writing, wrote, written)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
When you write something on a surface, you use something such as a pen or pencil to produce words, letters, or numbers on the surface.
If you’d like one, simply write your name and address on a postcard and send it to us...
They were still trying to teach her to read and write...
He wrote the word ‘pride’ in huge letters on the blackboard.
VERB : V n adv / prep , V , V n
2.
If you write something such as a book, a poem, or a piece of music, you create it and record it on paper or perhaps on a computer.
I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days...
Finding a volunteer to write the computer program isn’t a problem...
Thereafter she wrote articles for papers and magazines in Paris...
Jung Lu wrote me a poem once.
VERB : V n , V n , V n for n , V n n
3.
Someone who writes creates books, stories, or articles, usually for publication.
Jay wanted to write...
She writes for many papers, including the Sunday Times...
VERB : V , V for n
4.
When you write to someone or write them a letter, you give them information, ask them something, or express your feelings in a letter. In American English, you can also write someone.
Many people have written to me on this subject...
She had written him a note a couple of weeks earlier...
I wrote a letter to the car rental agency, explaining what had happened...
Why didn’t you write, call, anything?...
He had written her in Italy but received no reply.
nothing to write home about: see home
VERB : V to n , V n n , V n to n , V , V n
5.
When someone writes something such as a cheque, receipt, or prescription, they put the necessary information on it and usually sign it.
Snape wrote a receipt with a gold fountain pen...
I’ll write you a cheque in a moment.
VERB : V n , V n n , also V n for n
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Write out means the same as write .
We went straight to the estate agent and wrote out a cheque...
Get my wife to write you out a receipt before you leave.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P n , also V n P
6.
If you write to a computer or a disk, you record data on it. ( COMPUTING )
You should write-protect all disks that you do not usually need to write to.
VERB : V to/onto n , also V , V n to/onto n
7.
see also writing , written