"write" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /raɪt/ Audio: en-us-write.ogg [US], en-uk-to write.ogg [UK] Forms: write [canonical], writes [third-person, singular], wrote [past], written [past, participle], writing [present, participle]
enPR: rīt Head templates: {{verb2|write|writes|wrote|written|writing}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you write a book, an article, a computer program, a piece of music, etc., you create it.
    Sense id: simple-write-en-verb-~vkLX0q~
  2. If you write, you use letters, numbers, or other marks on paper or on a computer to show words.
    Sense id: simple-write-en-verb-OPCIV8ot
  3. If you write, you send a letter to someone.
    Sense id: simple-write-en-verb-XTG5~nPV
  4. (computer) If a computer writes, it records something in its memory or on a disk.
    Sense id: simple-write-en-verb-dH8r4CIN
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    },
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    },
    {
      "form": "wrote",
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        {
          "text": "My dream is to write a children's book."
        },
        {
          "text": "Mozart wrote over 600 pieces of music during his lifetime."
        },
        {
          "text": "He can't write. He's a terrible writer."
        },
        {
          "text": "In the article, the author writes that these things need to change."
        }
      ],
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        "If you write a book, an article, a computer program, a piece of music, etc., you create it."
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Can you write your name and phone number here for me?"
        },
        {
          "text": "Our teacher taught us to write beautifully."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's amazing how many people can't read and write."
        },
        {
          "text": "Do you have any paper to write on?"
        },
        {
          "text": "Listen to what I say and write it down."
        }
      ],
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        "If you write, you use letters, numbers, or other marks on paper or on a computer to show words."
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Please, phone or write me when you have some time."
        },
        {
          "text": "She would write to Mom every week and give her all the details."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you write, you send a letter to someone."
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Old computers were much slower at writing files."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(computer) If a computer writes, it records something in its memory or on a disk."
      ],
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      ]
    }
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      "enpr": "rīt"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/raɪt/"
    },
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      "sampa": "/r\\aIt/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-write.ogg",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-to write.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophones": [
        "right",
        "rite",
        "wright"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "write"
}
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    {
      "form": "writing",
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        "participle"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My dream is to write a children's book."
        },
        {
          "text": "Mozart wrote over 600 pieces of music during his lifetime."
        },
        {
          "text": "He can't write. He's a terrible writer."
        },
        {
          "text": "In the article, the author writes that these things need to change."
        }
      ],
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        "If you write a book, an article, a computer program, a piece of music, etc., you create it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Can you write your name and phone number here for me?"
        },
        {
          "text": "Our teacher taught us to write beautifully."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's amazing how many people can't read and write."
        },
        {
          "text": "Do you have any paper to write on?"
        },
        {
          "text": "Listen to what I say and write it down."
        }
      ],
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        "If you write, you use letters, numbers, or other marks on paper or on a computer to show words."
      ],
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        "transitive & intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Please, phone or write me when you have some time."
        },
        {
          "text": "She would write to Mom every week and give her all the details."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you write, you send a letter to someone."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive & intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Old computers were much slower at writing files."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(computer) If a computer writes, it records something in its memory or on a disk."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive & intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "enpr": "rīt"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/raɪt/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/r\\aIt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-write.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-to write.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophones": [
        "right",
        "rite",
        "wright"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "write"
}

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