writing
Americannoun
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the act of a person or thing that writes.
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to commit one's thoughts to writing.
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that which is written; written; characters or matter written written with a pen or the like.
His writing is illegible.
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such characters or matter with respect to style, kind, quality, etc.
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an inscription.
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a letter.
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any written written or printed paper, as a document or deed.
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literary or musical style, form, quality, technique, etc..
Her writing is stilted.
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a literary composition or production.
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the profession of a writer.
He turned to writing at an early age.
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the Writings, Hagiographa.
idioms
noun
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a group of letters or symbols written or marked on a surface as a means of communicating ideas by making each symbol stand for an idea, concept, or thing, by using each symbol to represent a set of sounds grouped into syllables ( syllabic writing ), or by regarding each symbol as corresponding roughly or exactly to each of the sounds in the language ( alphabetic writing ) See also ideogram
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short for handwriting
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anything expressed in letters, esp a literary composition
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the work of a writer
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literary style, art, or practice
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written form
give it to me in writing
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(modifier) related to or used in writing
writing ink
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a sign or signs of approaching disaster
Other Word Forms
- self-writing adjective
- unwriting adjective
Etymology
Origin of writing
Example Sentences
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Like my literary betters, I sometimes worry that reading distracts me from writing.
From Los Angeles Times
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is writing to police chiefs in England and Wales to inform them the Officer Maintenance Grant is being axed and replaced with ringfenced funding for neighbourhood officers instead.
From BBC
She is accused of writing posts for a channel called "Axis of the Resistance" in 2023 and 2024 on platforms including Telegram, X, Twitch and YouTube.
From Barron's
She never condemns European Jews for not seeing the writing on the wall.
A key to Mr. Barnes’s books is that in style as well as form he is a hybridizer, able to combine seemingly contrary temperaments into a single writing voice.
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