📒 to make letters or numbers on a surface, especially using a pen or a pencil
- In some countries children don't start learning to read and write until they are six.
- write in something Please write in pen on both sides of the paper.
- write with something I haven't got anything to write with.
📒 to produce something in written form so that people can read, perform or use it, etc.
- write something to write a novel/song/computer program
- to write an article/essay
- Who was ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ written by?
📒 to put information, a message of good wishes, etc. in a letter or an email and send it to somebody
- Bye! Don't forget to write.
- I'm writing to enquire about language courses.
- write to somebody She wrote to him in France.
📒 to state the information or the words mentioned
- write that… The author writes that this theory has now been disproved.
- write of something Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.
- She wrote of her life in Africa.
📒 to put information in the appropriate places on a form
- write something (out) to write (out) a cheque
- write somebody something The doctor wrote her a prescription for more antibiotics.
- write somebody out something I'll write you out a receipt.
📒 to record data in the memory of a computer
- An error was reported when he tried to write data to the file for the first time.
📒 to work correctly or in the way mentioned
📒 to be very obvious to other people from the expression on somebody’s face
- Guilt was written all over his face.
📒 to show clearly the quality mentioned or the influence of the person mentioned
- It was a performance with star quality written all over it.
- This essay has got Mike written all over it.
📒 not especially good; ordinary
- The team’s performance was nothing to write home about.
📒 having no value, especially legally, or because one of the people involved has no intention of doing what they said they would
📒 used when you are stating that there is nothing more that can be said about something or that something is completely finished
- We were doing well but we ran out of money and that’s all she wrote.