WRITTENとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹɪ.tn̩/, [ˈɹɪʔt̚n̩], [ˈɹɪ.ʔn̩] (t-glottalization), [ˈɹɪ.ɾn̩] (t-flapping)
• Homophone: ridden (t-flapping)

• (South Asia) IPA: /ˈɾɪtən/
  • Homophone: return (non-rhotic, stress neutralized)
• 韻: -ɪtən
• ハイフネーション: writ‧ten

形容詞

written (not comparable)

1. Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

   Antonyms: oral, verbal

   Written language is a way of representing spoken language.

2. Having been written.

   Antonym: unwritten

   I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.

引用

• 1978, Jacques Derrida with Alan Bass, Writing and Difference, page 62:

  It is more written than said

• 1991, Jay Clayton with Eric Rothstein, Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, page 109:

  ... although certainly more written than oral, are radically implicated in orality because of their performative nature and susceptibility to "mouvance"

• 1994, Marvin L. Kalb, The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press, page 68:

  Strmecki reworked the draft, making it seem "more written than spoken."

• 1996, Richard M. Swiderski, The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages, page 83:

  The Chinese is more written than the English in that the writing is more removed from speech than the phonetic English.

• 1998, Ilana Snyder with Michael Joyce, Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era, page 96:

  Yates concludes that in terms of lexical density, 'CMC users package information in text in ways that are more written than speech-like'

• 1998, Charles Bernstein, Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, page 211:

  printed in caps to suggest that the whole performance be thought of as one gigantic sentence. If Silliman's talk is more written than spoken, ...

• 2003, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004, page 71:

  Even insults, when they are traded, seem more written than felt.

派生語

名詞

written (plural writtens)

1. A rap that was written in advance, as opposed to a freestyle.

動詞

written

1. past participle of write

   Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?

   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

アナグラム

• Wittner, twinter, wren-tit, wrentit