write

To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

The pupil wrote his name on the paper.

Your son has been writing on the wall.

To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

To compose and send written information (to).

Please write to me when you get there.

Please write me when you get there.

To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.

Please write me a letter. Please write a letter to me.

To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.

Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.

Do you know, one man actually wrote me he thought he could almost shave with the back of the blade, the lather "mellowed" his beard so.

The act or style of writing.

The pen also gives a better write than the ordinary counter pen. The ink stand cannot be stolen, for it is fastened to the counter or desk.

The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.