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Written   /rˈɪtən/   Listen
Written

adjective
1.
Set down in writing in any of various ways.
2.
Systematically collected and written down.
3.
Written as for a film or play or broadcast.  Synonym: scripted.


Write

verb
(past wrote; past part. written; archaic past & past part. writ; pres. part. writing)
1.
Produce a literary work.  Synonyms: compose, indite, pen.  "He wrote four novels"
2.
Communicate or express by writing.
3.
Have (one's written work) issued for publication.  Synonym: publish.  "She published 25 books during her long career"
4.
Communicate (with) in writing.  Synonym: drop a line.
5.
Communicate by letter.
6.
Write music.  Synonym: compose.
7.
Mark or trace on a surface.  "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
8.
Record data on a computer.  Synonym: save.
9.
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word).  Synonym: spell.
10.
Create code, write a computer program.



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"Written" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the flyleaf of the geography and read what he had written there: himself, his name and ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
... Maud has written desiring me to release her. I cannot but remember that she is scarcely yet recovered from a severe illness, and her letter must not be final. She entreats me not to write to her or see her. Accordingly I address myself to you, and beg that you will not allow Maud to take any irrevocable ...
— The Unclassed • George Gissing
... to the station had hammered it out remorselessly all the way. The engine had caught it up, and repeated it with unvarying, endless iteration. The newspapers were full of it. When Dare turned to them in desperation he saw it written in large letters across the sham columns. There was nothing but that anywhere. It was the news of the day. Sick at heart, and giddy from want of food, he sat crouched up in the corner of his empty carriage, and vaguely ...
— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley
... not seeing the obligation in its unswerving necessity before." With this scrupulous resolve Kao took his last possession, and carrying it into the field he consumed it with fire beneath Hing's orange-tree. The fan, in turn, also had hidden properties, its written sentence being a spell against drought, hot winds, and the demons which suck the nourishment from all crops. In consequence of the act these forces were called into action, and before another day Hing's tree ...
— The Mirror of Kong Ho • Ernest Bramah
... entomologists hold that the natural flies actually on the water should be studied and imitated by the fly-maker, down to the most minute particulars. This is the old theory, and whole libraries have been written to prove and illustrate it, from the Boke of St. Albans, written by the Dame Juliana Berners in 1486, down to the present day. The number of insects which we are directed to imitate is legion, and the materials necessary for their manufacture ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various


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