单词 | write |
释义 | write (once / 10 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v To write is to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. If you have trouble falling asleep, write down all the thoughts swimming around your head before getting into bed as a way to clear your mind. Write is the modern day spelling of the Old English writan, meaning “to score, outline, draw the figure of.” Now it has the sense of “to set down in writing.” You can write music, a short story, or computer code. You can write a letter, or write in cursive. You can write up an account of a burglary, or write down your feelings in a journal. Write on! WORD FAMILYwrite: overwrite, rewrite, underwrite, writer, writes, writing, written, wrote+/overwrite: overwrites, overwriting, overwritten, overwrote/rewrite: rewriter, rewrites, rewriting, rewritten, rewrote/rewriter: rewriters/rewriting: rewritings/underwrite: underwriter, underwrites, underwriting, underwritten, underwrote/underwriter: underwriters/writer: writers/writing: writings/written: unwritten USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Pope, writing on Twitter, pegged the air quality index, a measure of the pollution, above 400 around the time of the video. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) This is a comedy, but one with “a steady undertow of anxiety, dread and anger,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) “Life experience was only half the equation,” she writes. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) Syn|Hypo spell spell out spell fully and without abbreviating hyphen, hyphenatedivide or connect with a hyphen 2v mark or trace on a surface 2The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet Hypo|Hyper dot make a dot or dots stenographwrite in shorthand calligraphwrite beautifully and ornamentally crosstrace a line through or across superscribewrite on the outside or upper part of superscribewrite on the top or outside capitalise, capitalizewrite in capital letters lettermark letters on or mark with letters printwrite as if with print; not cursive scrawl, scribblewrite carelessly copycopy down as is impress, printreproduce by printing letterset down or print with letters recopycopy again set, typesetset in type provetake a trial impression of misprintprint incorrectly offsetproduce by offset printing copy outcopy very carefully and as accurately as possible overprint, print overprint (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper cyclostyleprint with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil boldfaceprint in boldface italicise, italicizeprint in italics delineate, describe, draw, line, trace make a mark or lines on a surface 1v communicate or express by writing Please write to me every week Syn|Hypo|Hyper drop a line communicate (with) in writing write in write to an organization stylemake consistent with certain rules of style apostrophise, apostrophizeuse an apostrophe rewritewrite differently; alter the writing of sign, subscribemark with one's signature; write one's name (on) type, typewritewrite by means of a keyboard with types handwritewrite by hand jot, jot downwrite briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of scrabble, scribblewrite down quickly without much attention to detail get down, put down, set down, write downput down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc. cut, issue, make out, write outmake out and issue write upbring to public notice by writing, with praise or condemnation decipher, decode, decryptconvert code into ordinary language transcribe, transliteraterewrite in a different script transcribemake a phonetic transcription of transcribewrite out from speech, notes, etc. notateput into notation, as of music or choreography revisemake revisions in rubricatesign with a mark instead of a name shiftuse a shift key on a keyboard backspacehit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard double-spacetype with a full space between lines triple-spacetype with two empty spaces between lines touch-typetype without looking at the keyboard dash down, dash offwrite down hastily note, take downmake a written note of checkwrite out a check on a bank account communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 2v communicate by letter He wrote that he would be coming soon Syn|Hyper drop a line communicate (with) in writing communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 3v communicate (with) in writing 3Write her soon, please! Syn|Hyper drop a line correspond exchange messages 1v record data on a computer boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk Syn|Hypo|Hyper save overwrite write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data record, tape register electronically 2v create code, write a computer program 4She writes code faster than anybody else Hyper create by mental act, create mentally create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands 1v produce a literary work He wrote four novels Syn|Hypo|Hyper compose, indite, pen publish have (one's written work) issued for publication draw write a legal document or paper lyricwrite lyrics for (a song) write about, write of, write onwrite about a particular topic profilewrite about paragraphwrite paragraphs; work as a paragrapher paragraphwrite about in a paragraph write offwrite something fluently, and without hesitation dash off, fling off, knock off, scratch off, toss offwrite quickly rewriterewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose write copywrite for commercial publications adopt, dramatise, dramatizeput into dramatic form draft, outlinedraw up an outline or sketch for something poetise, poetize, verse, versifycompose verses or put into verse authorbe the author of annotate, footnoteadd explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments cite, referencerefer to write out, write upput into writing; write in complete form scriptwrite a script for relyricwrite new lyrics for (a song) metrifycompose in poetic meter spondaise, spondaizemake spondaic elegise, elegizecompose an elegy sonnetcompose a sonnet co-authorbe a co-author on (a book, a paper) ghost, ghostwritewrite for someone else create verbally create with or from words 2v have (one's written work) issued for publication How many books did Georges Simenon write? Syn|Hyper publish compose, indite, pen produce a literary work create verbally create with or from words 3v write music Syn|Hypo|Hyper compose counterpoint write in counterpoint set to musicwrite (music) for (a text) arrange, setadapt for performance in a different way scorewrite a musical score for melodise, melodizesupply a melody for harmonise, harmonizewrite a harmony for instrument, instrumentatewrite an instrumental score for prearrangearrange beforehand putadapt transposeput (a piece of music) into another key reharmonise, reharmonizeprovide with a different harmony realise, realizeexpand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass orchestratewrite an orchestra score for table, tabularise, tabularize, tabulatearrange or enter in tabular form create, make make or cause to be or to become |
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