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Written

adjective

Set down in writing in any of various ways.

Systematically collected and written down.

Written as for a film or play or broadcast. Synonym: scripted.

Write

verb

(past wrote; past part. written; archaic past & past part. writ; pres. part. writing)

Produce a literary work. Synonyms: compose, indite, pen. "He wrote four novels"

Communicate or express by writing.

Have (one's written work) issued for publication. Synonym: publish. "She published 25 books during her long career"

Communicate (with) in writing. Synonym: drop a line.

Communicate by letter.

Write music. Synonym: compose.

Mark or trace on a surface. "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"

Record data on a computer. Synonym: save.

Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word). Synonym: spell.

10.

Create code, write a computer program.

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"Written" Quotes from Famous Books

... the seaboard a train, sixty cars long, loaded with the blue barrels containing his celebrated liquid. That was a consideration for which any railroad would at that time sell its soul. And the New York Central road promptly made this sacrifice. Hardly had the ink dried on its written promise not to grant any rebates when it began granting them ...

— The Age of Big Business - Volume 39 in The Chronicles of America Series • Burton J. Hendrick

... flattened himself against the trunk of a tree and peered curiously at the figure which lay face downward on the fragrant carpet. One hand, outflung, caught at a little bush and held on as if in agony. The other hand grasped the sheets of gray paper, which, close-written, in feminine script, had brought a message ...

— Glory of Youth • Temple Bailey

... must express the hope that these poems will be recognized, not only as highly creditable to the Southern mind, but as truly illustrative, if not justificatory of, that sentiment and opinion with which they have been written; which sentiment and opinion have sustained their people through a war unexampled in its horrors in modern times, and which has fully tested their powers of endurance, as well as their ability in creating their own resources, ...

— War Poetry of the South • Various

... Nella-Rose's folly when she came in sight of Calvin Merrivale's store. But—who knows?—perhaps the girl's story had been written long since, and she was not entirely free. Be that as it may, she paused, for no reason whatever as far as she could tell, and carefully took one dozen eggs from the basket and hid them under some bushes by the road! Having done this she went forward so blithely and lightly that one might have thought ...

— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock

... up—the flame of the bright torch he carried illumined his face, on which love had written what she could not fail to read,—but she trembled as with cold, and there was a kind of appalling winder in her troubled eyes. He whispered, "come, Queen Thelma!" As in a dream, she allowed him to lead her to the stalactite chair, and when she was seated therein, she endeavored to control ...

— Thelma • Marie Corelli

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