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| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printing on paper |
| Synonyms: | autograph, chirography, hand, handwriting, print, scrawl, scribble, script, calligraphy, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, longhand, manuscription, shorthand |
| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printed composition |
| Synonyms: | article, book, discourse, dissertation, document, editorial, essay, letter, literature, manuscript, novel, ode, opus, pamphlet, paper, piece, play, poem, prose, publication, record, review, signature, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, work, belles-lettres |
| Main Entry: | write |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put language down on paper |
| Synonyms: | address, author, autograph, commit, communicate, compose, copy, correspond, create, draft, draw up*, engross, formulate, ghost, indite, inscribe, knock off*, knock out*, letter, note, pen, print, record, reproduce, rewrite, scrawl, scribble, scribe, sign, take down, tell, transcribe, turn out, bang out, chalk*, comp, dash off, drop a line, drop a note, ink, jot down, note down, pencil, push a pencil, put in writing, scriven, set down, set forth, typewrite, write down, write up |
| Antonyms: | read |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
allonymous, anepigraphous, anonymous, anopisthographic, Apollonian, Attic, auctorial, battological, bibliophagic, bucolic, Byronic, classical, cuneiform, demotic, Elizabethan, epistolary, erotographomanic, graphic, heroic, hieroglyphical, in black and white, in prose, in type, in writing, Jacobean, macaronic, melic, mock, onomastic, onymous, out of print, Parnassian, phat, printed, printless, prosaic, prosy, Rabelaisian, Renaissance, rimeless, runic, scribaceous, scribblative, scripturient, stylized, tabellarious, tete, uncial, under one's hand, unpoetical, unrecorded, unregistered, unrimed, unwritten, Victorian, writing, written
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-nouns
writing; chirography, stelography, cerography; penmanship, craftmanship; quill driving; typewriting., writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae; these presents., stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink., letter [more]; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari; script., shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy; secret writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography., copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist., calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand., cacography, griffonage, barbouillage; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble; pattes de mouche; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers., stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter., transcription (copy) [more]; inscription (record) [more]; superscription (indication) [more]; graphology., composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi; graphoidea, graphomania; phrenoia., writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press (author) [more].
-verbs
write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down (record) [more]; sign (attest) [more]; 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.
-adjectives
writing; written; in writing, in black and white; under one's hand., uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical.
-adverbs
currente calamo; pen in hand.
-phrases
audacter et sincere; le style est l'homme meme; "nature's noblest gift -- my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons [Horace]; "that mighty instrument of little men" [Byron]; "the pen became a
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| Main Entry: | autograph |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handwritten signature |
| Synonyms: | John Hancock*, endorsement, handwriting, inscription, seal, token, writing, undersignature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
| Synonyms: | account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing, explication |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | handwriting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the way a person writes |
| Synonyms: | chirography, hand, manuscript, mark, scratching, scrawl, scribble, script, style, writing, autography, calligraphy, chicken scratch, ductus, griffonage, hieroglyphics, longhand, manuscription, pencraft, penscript, scription, scrivenery, scrivening |
| Main Entry: | journalism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reporting |
| Synonyms: | news, writing, broadcast writing, newspaper writing, the fourth estate, the press |
| Main Entry: | poem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
| Synonyms: | ballad, beat, composition, creation, epic, free verse, lyric, ode, poetry, rhyme, rime, song, verse, words, writing, blank verse, haiku, limerick, lines, poesy, quatrain, rune, sestina, sonnet, villanelle |
| Antonyms: | prose |
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | publication; something impressed |
| Synonyms: | book, composition, copy, edition, engraving, face, font, impress, impression, imprint, indentation, issue, magazine, newspaper, periodical, photograph, printed matter, stamp, type, typeface, writing, black-and-white, characters, lettering, letters, lithograph, newsprint, typescript, typesetting |
| Main Entry: | prose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written, nonrhythmic literature |
| Synonyms: | book, composition, essay, exposition, fiction, speech, story, talk, text, tongue*, writing, nonfiction |
| Antonyms: | poem, poetry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tome |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large, scholarly book |
| Synonyms: | classic, magnum opus, novel, opus, publication, reference book, textbook, title, volume, work, writing, great work, schoolbook, tradebook |
| Main Entry: | treatise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written study of a subject |
| Synonyms: | argument, book, commentary, composition, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, exposition, memoir, monograph, pamphlet, paper, review, script, thesis, tract, work, writing, tractate |
| Main Entry: | authorship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | composition, creation, initiation, invention, origination, writing |
| Main Entry: | disquisition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discourse |
| Synonyms: | commentary, dissertation, exposition, treatise, writing |
| Main Entry: | book |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | published document |
| Synonyms: | album, bible, booklet, brochure, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, handbook, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, novel, omnibus, opus, pamphlet, periodical, portfolio, primer, publication, reader, roll, scroll, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, volume, work, writing, atlas, bestseller, codex, folio, hardcover, nonfiction, octavo, offprint, opuscule, paperback, preprint, quarto, reprint, softcover, speller, vade mecum |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving, exchanging information, ideas |
| Synonyms: | advice, articulation, assertion, communion, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, corresponding, declaration, delivery, dissemination, elucidation, expression, intelligence, interchange, intercourse, link, mention, publication, reading, reception, revelation, talk, talking, telling, transfer, transmission, utterance, writing, advisement, announcing, disclosing, intercommunication, making known, notifying, translating |
| Antonyms: | concealment, cover, quiet, suppression, withholding |
| Main Entry: | publication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printing of written or visual material |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, announcement, appearance, broadcast, broadcasting, communication, declaration, disclosure, discovery, dissemination, notification, proclamation, public relations, publicity, reporting, revelation, statement, ventilation, writing, airing, divulgation, issuance, issuing, promulgation, pronunciamento, publishing |
| Main Entry: | record |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of event or proceedings |
| Synonyms: | almanac, annals, archive, archives, chronicle, comic book, diary, directory, document, entry, evidence, file, history, inscription, jacket, journal, legend, log, manuscript, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, monument, note, register, remembrance, report, script, scroll, story, testimony, trace, track record*, transcript, witness, writing, documentation, memo, paper trail, registry, swindle sheet, transcription, written material |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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