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Dictionary definition · write

verb

  1. produce a literary work"She composed a poem"
  2. communicate or express by writing"He wrote about his great love for his wife"
  3. contact in writing"Write to her soon, please!"
  4. write music"Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  5. mark or trace words or symbols on a surface"The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"
  6. record data on a computer"boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
  7. 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"
  8. create code, write a computer program"She writes code faster than anybody else"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).