· the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
Synonym(s): authorship, composition, penning
Hypernym(s): verbal_creation
· the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
Synonym(s): written_material, piece_of_writing
Hypernym(s): written_communication, written_language, black_and_white
· (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"
Hypernym(s): written_communication, written_language, black_and_white, oeuvre, work, body_of_work
· letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"
Hypernym(s): written_communication, written_language, black_and_white
· the activity of putting something in written form; "she did the thinking while he did the writing"
Synonym(s): committal_to_writing
Hypernym(s): activity
· produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
Synonym(s): compose, pen, indite
Hypernym(s): create_verbally
· communicate or express by writing; "He wrote about his great love for his wife"
Hypernym(s): communicate, intercommunicate
· communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
Synonym(s): drop_a_line
Hypernym(s): correspond
· write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
Synonym(s): compose
· mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
Hypernym(s): trace, draw, line, describe, delineate
· record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
Synonym(s): save
· 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"
Synonym(s): spell
· create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else"
Hypernym(s): create_by_mental_act, create_mentally