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Meaning of write

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  write
      v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
           four novels" [syn: {write}, {compose}, {pen}, {indite}]
      2: communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every
         week"
      3: have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many
         books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books
         during her long career" [syn: {publish}, {write}]
      4: communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
         [syn: {write}, {drop a line}]
      5: communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming
         soon"
      6: write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies" [syn:
         {compose}, {write}]
      7: 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"
      8: record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written
         on the hard disk" [syn: {write}, {save}]
      9: 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" [syn: {spell}, {write}]
      10: create code, write a computer program; "She writes code
          faster than anybody else"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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