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| Sounds | ray't |
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| Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Produce a literary work. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | Sam and Sue write the movie |
| Synonyms | compose, pen, indite |
| Category | writing, authorship, composition, penning |
| Entails | spell, write |
| Narrower | draw; lyric; write on, write of, write about; profile; paragraph; paragraph; write off; dash off, knock off, toss off, fling off; rewrite; write copy; dramatize, dramatise, adopt; draft, outline; verse, versify, poetize, poetise; author; annotate, footnote; reference, cite; write out, write up; script |
| Broader | create verbally |
| Similar to | publish, write |
| See also | write out |
| Nouns | writer; writing |
| Meaning | Communicate or express by writing. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something to somebody; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Model | They write them the information; They write the information to them |
| Examples | "Please write to me every week" |
| Entailed by | correspond |
| Narrower | write in; style; apostrophize, apostrophise; encode, code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code; rewrite; sign, subscribe; dot; type, typewrite; handwrite; jot down, jot; scribble, scrabble; write down, set down, get down, put down; write out, issue, make out, cut; write up |
| Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
| Similar to | write, drop a line |
| Nouns | writing; writer |
| Meaning | Have (one's written work) issued for publication. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
| Model | Did he write his major works over a short period of time? |
| Examples | "How many books did Georges Simenon write?" |
| Synonyms | publish |
| Broader | create verbally |
| Similar to | write, compose, pen, indite |
| Nouns | writer |
| Meaning | Communicate (with) in writing. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s to somebody |
| Examples | "Write her soon, please!" |
| Synonyms | drop a line |
| Broader | correspond |
| Similar to | write; write |
| Nouns | writer |
| Meaning | Communicate by letter. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
| Similar to | write, drop a line |
| Nouns | writer |
| Meaning | Write music. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
| Model | Did he write his major works over a short period of time? |
| Synonyms | compose |
| Category | music |
| Narrower | counterpoint; set to music; arrange, set; score; melodize, melodise; harmonize, harmonise; instrument, instrumentate |
| Broader | make, create |
| Meaning | Mark or trace on a surface. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
| Narrower | stenograph; calligraph; cross; superscribe; superscribe; capitalize, capitalise; letter; print; scribble, scrawl; copy; print, impress |
| Broader | trace, draw, line, describe, delineate |
| Nouns | writer |
| Meaning | Record data on a computer. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Category | computer science, computing |
| Narrower | overwrite |
| Broader | record, tape |
| Meaning | Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | spell |
| Entailed by | write, compose, pen, indite |
| Narrower | hyphenate, hyphen |