writing

Từ điển Collocation

writing noun

1 putting words on paper

VERB + WRITING do, practise Every morning the children do writing. | improve

WRITING + NOUN paper | desk

PHRASES reading and writing

2 activity/job of writing

ADJ. effective The book aims to teach effective essay writing. | creative, descriptive, imaginative | academic, critical, scientific, technical | fiction, essay, letter, novel, prose, report, script | travel

QUANT. piece

VERB + WRITING teach

WRITING + NOUN skills

PHRASES a style of writing

3 written/printed words

VERB + WRITING put sth into The arrangement was never put into writing.

PREP. in ~ This agreement has to be confirmed in writing.

4 (often writings) books, etc.

ADJ. fine, good, great | bad | influential | early, later His experiences in India influenced his later writings. | ancient, contemporary Ancient writings reinforce their claims to the land. | published, unpublished | prose | academic, critical, historical, mystical, philosophical, political, religious, sacred, scholarly, scientific Christians share some of their sacred writings with the Jews. | popular | feminist | modernist | collected, selected Ruskin's Collected Writings

QUANT. piece | anthology, collection an anthology of writing about jazz

VERB + WRITING read | publish His writings on the history of art were published by Greenway and Settle. | influence, inspire

WRITING + VERB be about sth, be concerned with sth, deal with sth Her early writing was concerned with the French Revolution. | include sth, range His writings range from ancient to contemporary art, and include a study of Giorgione's paintings. | indicate sth, provide sth, reflect sth, show sth, suggest sth His writings provide us with a first-hand account of the civil war. Her writings reflect the breadth of her interests. | influence sb/sth, inspire sb/sth

PREP. in … ~ You find a greater use of the passive in scientific writing. | through sb's ~ Her influence has been greatest through her writings. | ~ about Her name crops up frequently in writings about the Renaissance. | ~ by a collection of writings by artists | ~ on The book is a collection of writings on death by various authors.

5 handwriting

ADJ. small, tiny | legible, neat | illegible | cursive, joined-up | childish | spidery

VERB + WRITING have He's got very neat writing. | read I can't read your writing. | recognize I didn't recognize the writing.

PREP. in sb's ~ The list was in Elizabeth's writing. > See HANDWRITING

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • the act of creating written works; authorship, composition, penning

    writing was a form of therapy for him

    it was a matter of disputed authorship

  • the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); written material, piece of writing

    the writing in her novels is excellent

    that editorial was a fine piece of writing

  • (usually plural) the collected work of an author

    the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings

  • letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language

    he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show

    the doctor's writing was illegible

  • the activity of putting something in written form; committal to writing

    she did the thinking while he did the writing

    v.

  • produce a literary work; compose, pen, indite

    She composed a poem

    He wrote four novels

  • communicate or express by writing

    Please write to me every week

  • have (one's written work) issued for publication; publish

    How many books did Georges Simenon write?

    She published 25 books during her long career

  • communicate (with) in writing; drop a line

    Write her soon, please!

  • communicate by letter

    He wrote that he would be coming soon

  • write music; compose

    Beethoven composed nine symphonies

  • 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

  • record data on a computer

    boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk

  • write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); spell

    He spelled the word wrong in this letter

  • create code, write a computer program

    She writes code faster than anybody else

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

writings
syn.: authorship committal to writing composition penning piece of writing written materialwrites|wrote|writing|written
syn.: inscribe mark note pen post record scribe