verb “write”
infinitive write; he writes; past tense wrote; past part. written; ger. writing
- to create letters, words, or symbols on a surface to share thoughts or information
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She writes a letter to her friend every month.
- to create and be the original creator of a book, article, poem, etc
She wrote a captivating novel that became a bestseller.
- to communicate with someone by sending them a letter or message
She wrote him every day while he was overseas.
- to have the profession or activity of creating written works
She writes novels in her spare time.
- to save data onto a device or medium in the field of computing
The program is designed to write data to the external hard drive as a backup.
- to create and sell a financial contract that gives the buyer certain rights
John decided to write a call option on his stocks to earn some extra income.
noun “write”
singular write, plural writes or uncountable
- in computing, the process of saving data to memory or a storage device
The software update increased the number of writes per second.