Dictionary entry details
• WRITING (noun)
Meaning:
The act of creating written works
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
writing; penning; authorship; composition
Context examples:
writing was a form of therapy for him / it was a matter of disputed authorship
Hypernyms ("writing" is a kind of...):
verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)
Domain member category:
author (be the author of)
co-author (be a co-author on (a book, a paper))
ghost; ghostwrite (write for someone else)
annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)
cite; reference (refer to)
write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)
script (write a script for)
draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)
adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)
compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)
write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)
profile (write about)
paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)
dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)
rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)
write copy (write for commercial publications)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "writing"):
versification (the art or practice of writing verse)
lexicography (the act of writing dictionaries)
redaction (the act of putting something in writing)
novelisation; novelization (converting something into the form of a novel)
metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))
historiography (the writing of history)
fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)
dramatisation; dramatization (conversion into dramatic form)
drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)
Meaning:
The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
piece of writing; written material; writing
Context examples:
the writing in her novels is excellent / that editorial was a fine piece of writing
Hypernyms ("writing" is a kind of...):
written communication; written language (communication by means of written symbols)
Meronyms (parts of "writing"):
epilog; epilogue (a short passage added at the end of a literary work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "writing"):
editing; redaction (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)
essay (an analytic or interpretive literary composition)
adaptation; version (a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form)
treatise (a formal exposition)
autograph (something written by one's own hand)
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
screed (a long piece of writing)
document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))
dramatic composition; dramatic work (a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.)
dithyramb (a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing)
plagiarism (a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work)
transcript (something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech)
manuscript; ms (the form of a literary work submitted for publication)
inscription; lettering (letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something)
bowdlerisation; bowdlerization (written material that has been bowdlerized)
title ((usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action)
cryptogram; cryptograph; secret writing (a piece of writing in code or cipher)
rescript; revision; rewrite (something that has been written again)
literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)
literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)
literature (published writings in a particular style on a particular subject)
matter (written works (especially in books or magazines))
criticism; literary criticism (a written evaluation of a work of literature)
section; subdivision (a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical))
paragraph (one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line)
diary; journal (a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations)
Instance hyponyms:
Ayurveda ((Sanskrit) an ancient medical treatise summarizing the Hindu art of healing and prolonging life; sometimes regarded as a 5th Veda)
Meaning:
(usually plural) the collected work of an author
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings
Hypernyms ("writing" is a kind of...):
body of work; oeuvre; work (the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it))
written communication; written language (communication by means of written symbols)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "writing"):
patristics; patrology (the writings of the early Church Fathers)
Meaning:
Letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context examples:
he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show / the doctor's writing was illegible
Hypernyms ("writing" is a kind of...):
written communication; written language (communication by means of written symbols)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "writing"):
notation; notational system (a technical system of symbols used to represent special things)
printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)
skywriting (writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane)
hieroglyph; hieroglyphic (writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible))
hand; handwriting; script (something written by hand)
printing (text handwritten in the style of printed matter)
typewriting; typing (writing done with a typewriter)
capitalisation; capitalization (writing in capital letters)
coding system (a system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages)
orthography; writing system (a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols)
Meaning:
The activity of putting something in written form
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
committal to writing; writing
Context example:
she did the thinking while he did the writing
Hypernyms ("writing" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "writing"):
coding; cryptography; secret writing; steganography (act of writing in code or cipher)
handwriting (the activity of writing by hand)
inscription (the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words)
notation (the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters)
