1.  write(v = verb.creation) compose, indite, pen - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
is one way to create verbally
Derived forms noun writer₁, noun writing₁
Sample sentences: Sam and Sue write the movie

2.  write(v = verb.communication) - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Derived forms noun writer₂, noun writing₅
Sample sentences: They write them the information; They write the information to them

3.  write(v = verb.creation) publish - have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
is one way to create verbally
Derived form noun writer₁
Sample sentences: Did he write his major works over a short period of time?

4.  write(v = verb.communication) drop a line - communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
is one way to correspond
Derived form noun writer₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s to somebody

5.  write(v = verb.communication) - communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Derived form noun writer₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

6.  write(v = verb.creation) compose - write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
is one way to create, make
Sample sentences: Did he write his major works over a short period of time?

7.  write(v = verb.creation) - 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"
is one way to delineate, describe, draw, line, trace
Derived form noun writer₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something

8.  write(v = verb.communication) save - record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
is one way to record, tape
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

9.  write(v = verb.creation) spell - 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"
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

10.  write(v = verb.creation) - create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else"
is one way to create by mental act, create mentally
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures. [1913 Webster]

2.  To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter. [1913 Webster]
"Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves." [1913 Webster]
"I chose to write the thing I durst not speak
To her I loved." [1913 Webster]

3.  Hence, to compose or produce, as an author. [1913 Webster]
"I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living." [1913 Webster]

4.  To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart. [1913 Webster]

5.  To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively. [1913 Webster]
"He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine." [1913 Webster]

1.  To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"So it stead you, I will write,
Please you command." [1913 Webster]

2.  To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices. [1913 Webster]

3.  To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose. [1913 Webster]
"They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors." [1913 Webster]

4.  To compose or send letters. [1913 Webster]
"He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom." [1913 Webster]

write, v. (past wrote; past part. written)
1 intr. mark paper or some other surface by means of a pen, pencil, etc., with symbols, letters, or words.
2 tr. form or mark (such symbols etc.).
3 tr. form or mark the symbols that represent or constitute (a word or sentence, or a document etc.).
4 tr. fill or complete (a sheet, cheque, etc.) with writing.
5 tr. put (data) into a computer store.
6 tr. (esp. in passive) indicate (a quality or condition) by one's or its appearance (guilt was written on his face).
7 tr. compose (a text, article, novel, etc.) for written or printed reproduction or publication; put into literary etc. form and set down in writing.
8 intr. be engaged in composing a text, article, etc. (writes for the local newspaper).
9 intr. (foll. by to) write and send a letter (to a recipient).
10 tr. US or colloq. write and send a letter to (a person) (wrote him last week).
11 tr. convey (news, information, etc.) by letter (wrote that they would arrive next Friday).
12 tr. state in written or printed form (it is written that).
13 tr. cause to be recorded.
14 tr. underwrite (an insurance policy).
15 tr. (foll. by into, out of) include or exclude (a character or episode) in a story by suitable changes of the text.
16 tr. archaic describe in writing.

Idiom:
nothing to write home about colloq. of little interest or value. write down
1 record or take note of in writing.
2 write as if for those considered inferior.
3 disparage in writing.
4 reduce the nominal value of (stock, goods, etc.).
write in
1 send a suggestion, query, etc., in writing to an organization, esp. a broadcasting station.
2 US add (an extra name) on a list of candidates when voting. write-in n. US an instance of writing in (see write in 2).
write off
1 write and send a letter.
2 cancel the record of (a bad debt etc.); acknowledge the loss of or failure to recover (an asset).
3 damage (a vehicle etc.) so badly that it cannot be repaired.
4 compose with facility. write-off n. a thing written off, esp. a vehicle too badly damaged to be repaired.
write out
1 write in full or in finished form.
2 exhaust (oneself) by writing (have written myself out).
write up
1 write a full account of.
2 praise in writing.
3 make entries to bring (a diary etc.) up to date. write-up n. colloq. a written or published account, a review.

Derivative:
writable adj.

Etymology:
OE writan scratch, score, write, f. Gmc: orig. used of symbols inscribed with sharp tools on stone or wood

VB  express by words, write.

VB  write, pen, copy, engross, write out, write out fair, transcribe, scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch, interline, stain paper, write down, sign, enface, compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate, dictate, inscribe, throw on paper, dash off, manifold, take up the pen, take pen in hand, shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.

VB  record, put on record, place on record, chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity, keep up the memory, commemorate, report, write, commit to writing, reduce to writing, put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white, put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down, note, minute, put on paper, take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum, make a return, mark, sign, enter, book, post, post up, insert, make an entry of, mark off, tick off, register, enroll, inscroll, file, burn into memory, carve in stone.

write about, write copy, write down, write in, write in code, write of, write off, write on, write out, write up