write

1. (ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.Examples: "The pupil wrote his name on the paper."; "Your son has been writing on the wall."Synonyms: inscribe, scrawl, scribbleambitransitive

2. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).Examples: "My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald."; "Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."; "Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph."transitive

3. (transitive) To send written information to.Examples: "(UK) Please write to me when you get there."; "(US) Please write me when you get there."Synonyms: to posttransitive

4. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.Examples: "The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus."; "Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice.""; "The route passes over low-lying land, the only item of note being the Cerebos salt works at Greatham, where one may catch a glimpse of the smart black diesel locomotive emblazoned with the firm's name writ large."Synonyms: display, indicate, mark, showtransitive

5. (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.Examples: "Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money."; "Do you know, one man actually wrote me he thought he could almost shave with the back of the blade, the lather "mellowed" his beard so."ditransitive

6. (intransitive) To be an author.Examples: "I write for a living."; "I said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent."intransitive