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| NOUN | 1 | writing, authorship, composition, penning | The act of creating written works |
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| 2 | writing, written material, piece of writing | The work of a writer | |
| 3 | writing | (usually plural) the collected work of an author | |
| 4 | writing | Letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language | |
| 5 | writing, committal to writing | The activity of putting something in written form |
| Sounds | ray'tihng |
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| Rhymes | abducting, abiding, abounding, and 2057 more rhymes in ihng... |
| Meaning | The act of creating written works. |
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| Examples | "writing was a form of therapy for him" |
| Synonyms | authorship, composition, penning |
| Category of | write, compose, pen, indite; write on, write of, write about; profile; paragraph; dash off, scratch off, knock off, toss off, fling off; rewrite; write copy; dramatize, dramatise, adopt; draft, outline; author; co-author; ghost, ghostwrite; annotate, footnote; reference, cite; write out, write up; script |
| Broader | verbal creation |
| Narrower | drafting; dramatization, dramatisation; fabrication, fictionalization, fictionalisation; historiography; metrification; novelization, novelisation; redaction; lexicography; versification |
| Verbs | write |
| Meaning | The work of a writer. Anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect). |
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| Examples | "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" |
| Synonyms | written material, piece of writing |
| Parts | epilogue, epilog |
| Broader | written communication, written language |
| Narrower | bowdlerization, bowdlerisation; title; cryptogram, cryptograph, secret writing; rewrite, revision, rescript; literary composition, literary work; literature; literature; matter; criticism, literary criticism; section, subdivision; paragraph; diary, journal; inscription, lettering; manuscript, ms; autograph; treatise; adaptation, version; essay; editing, redaction; sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text; screed; document, written document, papers; dramatic composition, dramatic work; dithyramb; plagiarism; transcript |
| Instances | Ayurveda |
| Meaning | (usually plural) the collected work of an author. |
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| Examples | "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings" |
| Usage | plural, plural form |
| Broader | oeuvre, work, body of work; written communication, written language |
| Narrower | patristics, patrology |
| Meaning | Letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language. |
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| Examples | "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible" |
| Broader | written communication, written language |
| Narrower | orthography, writing system; coding system; capitalization, capitalisation; typing, typewriting; printing; handwriting, hand, script; hieroglyph, hieroglyphic; skywriting; printing, printing process; notation, notational system |
| Meaning | The activity of putting something in written form. |
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| Examples | "she did the thinking while he did the writing" |
| Synonyms | committal to writing |
| Broader | activity |
| Narrower | cryptography, coding, secret writing, steganography; handwriting; inscription; notation |
| Verbs | write |
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