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writing
[ rahy-ting ]
noun
- the act of a person or thing that writes.
to commit one's thoughts to writing.
His writing is illegible.
- such characters or matter with respect to style, kind, quality, etc.
- an inscription.
- a letter.
- literary or musical style, form, quality, technique, etc.:
Her writing is stilted.
- a literary composition or production.
- the profession of a writer:
He turned to writing at an early age.
- the Writings, Hagiographa.
writing
/ ˈraɪtɪŋ /
noun
- 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
- short for handwriting
- anything expressed in letters, esp a literary composition
- the work of a writer
- literary style, art, or practice
- written form
give it to me in writing
- modifier related to or used in writing
writing ink
- writing on the walla sign or signs of approaching disaster
Other Words From
- self-writing adjective
- un·writing adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of writing1
Idioms and Phrases
- writing on the wall. handwriting ( def 4 ).
Example Sentences
"I wasn't writing it thinking people were ever going to read it, I was writing it for myself," he told BBC News NI.
Sir Terry first showed Mr Smythe his fiction work in the summer of 1968 and the publisher was immediately struck by his "brilliance, sense of humour and his skill at writing".
He also was influenced by the writings of John Muir, the legendary conservationist who founded the Sierra Club.
No announcement of the restoration of Gibson's gun rights has been made as of this writing.
As of the time I’m writing this, he’s the scapegoat for whoever set the cabin on fire at the end of Season 2, something that’s heavily speculated was actually done by one of the girls.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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