Write and Wrote

verb

• Produce a literary work.
  • usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
  • synonyms: compose, pen, indite
• Communicate or express by writing.
  • usage: "Please write to me every week"
• Have (one's written work) issued for publication.
  • usage: "How many books did Georges Simenon write"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
  • synonyms: publish
• Communicate (with) in writing.
  • usage: "Write her soon, please"
  • synonyms: drop a line
• Communicate by letter.
  • usage: "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
• Write music.
  • usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  • synonyms: compose
• Mark or trace on a surface.
  • usage: "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
• Record data on a computer.
  • usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
  • synonyms: save
• Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word. )
  • usage: "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
  • synonyms: spell
• Create code, write a computer program.
  • usage: "She writes code faster than anybody else"

• (v.t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
• (v.i.) To form characters, letters or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
• (v.i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
• (v.t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
• (v.t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
• (v.i.) To compose or send letters.
• (v.t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
• (v.t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
• (v.i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.

Sell an option. Applies to derivative products.

• imp. & archaic p. p. of Write.
• (v.i.) To root with the snout. See 1st Root.
• (imp.) of Write.