writing

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/ˈɹaɪtɪŋ/

noun 5

Collocations

ADJ.

early, english, finished, formal, good, hard, interesting, kind

Her early writing showed promise, though she didn't become famous until later in her career.

VERB + WRITING

am, care, despise, hawking, time, trouble

I don't care much for academic writing, so I chose a career in journalism instead.

WRITING + NOUN

essays, friends, letter, letters, manuscript, news, paper, papers

She spent the afternoon writing letters to her friends about her trip to Italy.

PREP.

during, in

I made several spelling mistakes during writing my essay last night.

ADV.

almost, imperfectly, mainly, rarely, utterly

She was mainly writing emails all day instead of finishing the report.

Definitions

noun

Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.

Because writing of any kind is no more and no less than a graphic representation of speech[…], to study its nature and history we must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes.

Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.

Something written, such as a document, article or book.

The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.

A work of an author.

Congrats, you did an interesting piece of writing.

The style of writing of a person.

I can't read your writing.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of creating written works

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

writing on the wall

An ominous warning; a prediction of bad luck.

He could see the writing on the wall months before the business failed.

not worth writing home about

Being nothing to write home about; unremarkable and mediocre.

The powdered eggs, instant potatoes and dried bacon were not worth writing home about, but it was edible and satisfied the immediate hunger.

Example Bank

Wiktionary

Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.

Wiktionary

Congrats, you did an interesting piece of writing.

Wiktionary

I utterly despise formal writing!

Tatoeba · #1470

There was always too much superfluous writing in his essays.

Tatoeba · #1951

Are you writing a letter?

Tatoeba · #16010

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