資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Write \Write\, v. t. [imp. {Wrote}; p. p. {Written}; Archaic
   imp. & p. p. {Writ}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Writing}.] [OE. writen,
   AS. wr[=i]tan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS.
   wr[=i]tan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to
   rend, G. reissen, OHG. r[=i]zan, Icel. r[=i]ta to write,
   Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf. {Race} tribe,
   lineage.]
   1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance
      of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable
      instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to
      write figures.

   2. To set down for reading; to express in legible or
      intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed;
      to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to
      set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.

            Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to
            one she loves.                        --Shak.

            I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her
            I loved.                              --Prior.

   3. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.

            I purpose to write the history of England from the
            accession of King James the Second down to a time
            within the memory of men still living. --Macaulay.

   4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth
      written on the heart.

   5. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own
      written testimony; -- often used reflexively.

            He who writes himself by his own inscription is like
            an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless
            picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell
            passengers what shape it is, which else no man could
            imagine.                              --Milton.

   {To write to}, to communicate by a written document to.

   {Written laws}, laws deriving their force from express
      legislative enactment, as contradistinguished from
      unwritten, or common, law. See the Note under {Law}, and
      {Common law}, under {Common}, a.