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writing
noun
1 writing
The act of creating written works:
— Writing was a form of therapy for him.
synonyms: authorship, composition, penning.
Roget 593:
booklet;
writing,
work,
volume,
tome,
opuscule†;
tract,
tractate†;
livret†;
brochure,
libretto,
handbook,
codex,
manual,
pamphlet,
enchiridion†,
circular,
publication;
chap book.
part,
issue,
number livraison [Fr.];
album,
portfolio;
periodical,
serial,
magazine,
ephemeris,
annual,
journal.
paper,
bill,
sheet,
broadsheet†;
leaf,
leaflet;
fly leaf,
page;
quire,
ream.
[subdivisions of a book]
chapter,
section,
head,
article,
paragraph,
passage,
clause;
endpapers,
frontispiece;
cover,
binding.
folio,
quarto,
octavo;
duodecimo†,
sextodecimo†,
octodecimo†.
encyclopedia;
encompilation†.
[collection of books]
library,
bibliotheca†.
press
etc.
(publication)
531.
[complete description]
definitive work,
treatise,
comprehensive treatise
(dissertation)
595.
[person who writes a book]
writer,
author,
litterateur [Fr.],
essayist,
journalism;
pen,
scribbler,
the scribbling race;
literary hack,
Grub-street writer;
writer for the press,
gentleman of the press,
representative of the press;
adjective jerker†,
diaskeaust†,
ghost,
hack writer,
ink slinger;
publicist;
reporter,
penny a liner;
editor,
subeditor†;
playwright
etc.
599;
poet
etc.
597.
bookseller,
publisher;
bibliopole†,
bibliopolist†;
librarian;
bookstore,
bookshop,
bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books,
bibliography;
book learning
etc.
(knowledge)
490.
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Roget 590:
writing
etc.
v.;
chirography,
stelography†,
cerography†;
penmanship,
craftmanship†;
quill driving;
typewriting.
writing,
manuscript,
MS. ,
literae scriptae [Lat.];
these presents.
stroke of the pen,
dash of the pen;
coupe de plume;
line;
headline;
pen and ink.
letter
etc.
561;
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
etc.
v.;
pattes de mouche [Fr.];
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
etc.
(copy)
21;
inscription
etc.
(record)
551;
superscription
etc.
(indication)
550;
graphology.
composition,
authorship;
cacoethes scribendi [Lat.];
graphoidea†,
graphomania†;
phrenoia†.
writer,
scribe,
amanuensis,
scrivener,
secretary,
clerk,
penman,
copyist,
transcriber,
quill driver;
stenographer,
typewriter,
typist;
writer for the press
etc.
(author)
593.
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Dutch: auteurschap, schrijverschap
Polish: piĆmiennictwo
2 writing
The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect):
— The writing in her novels is excellent.
— That editorial was a fine piece of writing.
synonyms: piece of writing, written material.
Polish: piĆmiennictwo
3 writing
usually plural The collected work of an author.
Polish: pisma
4 writing
Letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language.
Dutch: schrijven, schrijfsel, geschrijf, geschrift, schrift
5 writing
The activity of putting something in written form:
— She did the thinking while he did the writing.
synonym: committal to writing.
Dutch: schrijverij
Polish: napisanie
adjective
Roget 590:
writing
etc.
v.;
written
etc.
v.;
in writing,
in black and white;
under one's hand.
uncial,
Runic,
cuneiform,
hieroglyphical†.
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