write
To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […]; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.
To send written information to.
To show (information, etc) in written form.
To convey a fact to someone via writing.
To be an author.
(computing) To record data mechanically or electronically.
(South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
He who writes himself Martyr by his own inscription, is like an ill painter, who by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.
(finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).
(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.
The act or style of writing.
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
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