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Verb write has 9 senses
- write, compose, pen, indite - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
--1 is one way to create verbally
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue write the movie
- write - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
--2 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentences:
They write them the information
They write the information to them
- publish, write - have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
--3 is one way to create verbally
Sample sentence:
Did he write his major works over a short period of time?
- write, drop a line - communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
--4 is one way to correspond
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to somebody
- write - communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
--5 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- compose, write - write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
--6 is one way to make, create
Sample sentence:
Did he write his major works over a short period of time?
- write - mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"
--7 is one way to trace, draw, line, describe, delineate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- write - record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
--8 is one way to record, tape
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- spell, write - write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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