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{ "term": "write", "partOfSpeech": "verb", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a1", "verbForms": { "presentSimple": { "iYouWeThey": "write", "heSheIt": "writes" }, "pastSimple": "wrote", "pastParticiple": "written", "ingForm": "writing" }, "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "to make letters or numbers on a surface, especially using a pen or a pencil", "sensetop": "write in somethingwrite with somethingwrite something", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "In some countries children don't start learning to **read and write** until they are six." }, { "text": "Please write in pen on both sides of the paper.", "contextForm": "write in something" }, { "text": "I haven't got anything to write with.", "contextForm": "write with something" }, { "text": "Write your name at the top of the paper.", "contextForm": "write something" }, { "text": "The teacher wrote the answers on the board." }, { "text": "The ‘b’ had been wrongly written as a ‘d’." }, { "text": "Children must learn to write neatly." }, { "text": "I write with an old fashioned pen." }, { "text": "She was busily writing in a notebook." }, { "text": "She wrote in Arabic." }, { "text": "The words were written in red." }, { "text": "Please write clearly in black ink." }, { "text": "We teach children to write when they are about six." }, { "text": "Write your answer out again on a new sheet of paper." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["clearly", "neatly", "busily"], "verb + write": ["learn to", "teach somebody to", "be able to"], "preposition": ["in", "on", "with"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "to produce something in written form so that people can read, perform or use it, etc.", "sensetop": "write somethingwrite about somethingwrite for somethingwrite somebody something", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "to write a novel/song/computer program", "contextForm": "write something" }, { "text": "to write an article/essay" }, { "text": "Who was ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ written by?" }, { "text": "Which opera did Verdi write first?" }, { "text": "He hopes to write a book about his experiences one day." }, { "text": "She had to write a report on the project." }, { "text": "The text is very well written." }, { "text": "The play was originally written for British television." }, { "text": "I wanted to travel and then write about it.", "contextForm": "write about something" }, { "text": "He writes for the ‘New Yorker’ *(= works as a writer)*.", "contextForm": "write for something" }, { "text": "No decision has been made **at the time of writing**." }, { "text": "She wrote him several poems.", "contextForm": "write somebody something" }, { "text": "After ‘Tom Sawyer’, Twain went on to write several other classic books." }, { "text": "Doris writes with verve and wit." }, { "text": "He has been commissioned to write a history of the town." }, { "text": "She has written extensively on the subject." }, { "text": "He set out to write a short book on taxation." }, { "text": "He writes on political issues." }, { "text": "Her novel was written under the pseudonym Currer Bell." }, { "text": "She was inspired to write the poem by a visit to the cathedral." }, { "text": "The role was written specifically for Rita Hayworth." }, { "text": "a journalist who writes about problems in the developing world" }, { "text": "an art critic who writes regularly in the French daily ‘Le Figaro’" }, { "text": "history written from the perspective of the losers" }, { "text": "Someone had written a slogan on the wall." }, { "text": "Students will be expected to write their own computer programs." }, { "text": "She wrote a list on the back of an old envelope." }, { "text": "He wrote in his journal." }, { "text": "She writes a column for ‘The New York Times’." }, { "text": "the ability to write clearly in plain English" }, { "text": "The film was written and directed by Tim Robbins." }, { "text": "He has written a very positive review of the film." }, { "text": "She wrote an article for the respected journal Science." }, { "text": "The children wrote stories about their pets." }, { "text": "She was asked to write a short piece of music for the orchestra." }, { "text": "Students were required to write two research papers." }, { "text": "He wrote scripts for stage, screen and radio." }, { "text": "I have written a few blog posts in the last couple of months." }, { "text": "This is his only novel written for children." } ], "topics": ["Literature and writing", "Music"], "collocations": { "adverb": ["beautifully", "eloquently", "well"], "verb + write": [ "commission somebody to", "inspire somebody to", "prompt somebody to" ], "preposition": ["about", "for", "from"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "to put information, a message of good wishes, etc. in a letter or an email and send it to somebody", "sensetop": "write to somebodywrite something to somebodywrite somebody somethingwrite that…write somebodywrite somebody that…write doing something", "labels": "(North American English)(North American English)", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "Bye! Don't forget to write." }, { "text": "I'm writing to enquire about language courses." }, { "text": "She wrote to him in France.", "contextForm": "write to somebody" }, { "text": "I wrote a letter to the Publicity Department.", "contextForm": "write something to somebody" }, { "text": "I wrote the Publicity Department a letter.", "contextForm": "write somebody something" }, { "text": "She wrote that they were all fine.", "contextForm": "write that…" }, { "text": "Write me while you're away.", "contextForm": "write somebody" }, { "text": "He wrote me that he would be arriving Monday.", "contextForm": "write somebody that…" }, { "text": "They wrote thanking us for the present.", "contextForm": "write doing something" }, { "text": "He wrote to the editor of the newspaper." }, { "text": "He still writes to me regularly." }, { "text": "She wrote me a postcard from Spain." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["beautifully", "eloquently", "well"], "verb + write": [ "commission somebody to", "inspire somebody to", "prompt somebody to" ], "preposition": ["about", "for", "from"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "to state the information or the words mentioned", "sensetop": "write that…write of something+ speech", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The author writes that this theory has now been disproved.", "contextForm": "write that…" }, { "text": "Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.", "contextForm": "write of something" }, { "text": "She wrote of her life in Africa." }, { "text": "‘Of all my books,’ wrote Dickens, ‘I like this the best.’", "contextForm": "+ speech" } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["beautifully", "eloquently", "well"], "verb + write": [ "commission somebody to", "inspire somebody to", "prompt somebody to" ], "preposition": ["about", "for", "from"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "to put information in the appropriate places on a form", "sensetop": "write something (out)write somebody somethingwrite somebody out something", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "to write (out) a cheque", "contextForm": "write something (out)" }, { "text": "The doctor wrote her a prescription for more antibiotics.", "contextForm": "write somebody something" }, { "text": "I'll write you out a receipt.", "contextForm": "write somebody out something" } ] }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "to record data in the memory of a computer", "sensetop": "write (something) to/onto something", "examples": [ { "text": "An error was reported when he tried to write data to the file for the first time." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 7, "definition": "to work correctly or in the way mentioned", "examples": [ { "text": "This pen won't write." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to be very obvious to other people from the expression on somebody’s face", "examples": [ { "text": "Guilt was written all over his face." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to show clearly the quality mentioned or the influence of the person mentioned", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "It was a performance with star quality written all over it." }, { "text": "This essay has got Mike written all over it." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "not especially good; ordinary", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The team’s performance was nothing to write home about." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "having no value, especially legally, or because one of the people involved has no intention of doing what they said they would", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used when you are stating that there is nothing more that can be said about something or that something is completely finished", "labels": "(North American English, informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "We were doing well but we ran out of money and that’s all she wrote." } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/raɪt/", "audio": "ri/write/right__gb_4.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/raɪts/", "audio": "wr/write/writes__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rəʊt/", "audio": "wr/write/wrote__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈrɪtn/", "audio": "wr/write/written__gb_2.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪtɪŋ/", "audio": "wr/write/writing__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/raɪt/", "audio": "wr/write/write__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/raɪts/", "audio": "wr/write/writes__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rəʊt/", "audio": "wr/write/wrote__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈrɪtn/", "audio": "wr/write/written__us_3.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪtɪŋ/", "audio": "wr/write/writing__us_4.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Old English wrītan ‘score, form (letters) by carving, write’, of Germanic origin; related to German reissen ‘sketch, drag’." }