Write upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

write up (third-person singular simple present writes up, present participle writing up, simple past wrote up or (archaic) writ up, past participle written up or (archaic) writ up or (obsolete) ywriten up)(transitive)

1. To produce by writing.

   Synonyms: write down, record, transcribe

   The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him.

2. To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.

   Synonym: write down

   Near-synonym: cite

   His supervisor wrote him up after their last argument.

3. To write about positively; to praise in writing.

   Antonym: write down

   Near-synonym: talk up

   The paper wrote up the team's prospects.

4. (accounting) To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset.

   Antonyms: write down, devalue

   The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.

5. (philately) To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety.

   She carefully wrote up each stamp in her collection, noting the Scott catalog number, perforation gauge, and printing plate variety.

6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write,‎ up.

   I can't write up in the attic; it's too cold there in the winter and too hot there in the summer.

使用する際の注意点

• In sense 1, this term is generally used only when the thing being written has been previously set or arranged to some extent. Thus, one can write up a report of events, minutes of a meeting, or a contract previously agreed upon orally.
• As with many pairs of phrasal verbs that contain antonymic particles (such as up and down), write up and write down can actually function as synonyms for some senses.

Further reading

• “write up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

Deverbal from write up.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹaɪtˌʌp/

名詞

write-up (plural write-ups)

1. A written account of something, as a record.
2. (labour, human resources) An official document or documentation listing or outlining the faults, offenses or wrongdoing of someone.
3. An increase made to the book value of an asset that was previously undervalued.
4. A review published in the print or online media for a book, film, etc.

   The film had poor write-ups, but I ended up enjoying it anyway.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:literature

Further reading

• “write-up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “write-up”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “write-up”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “write-up”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “write-up”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

名詞

writeup (plural writeups)

1. Alternative spelling of write-up.
   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎, archived from the original on 1 July 2012:

     I will be the first to concede that my writeups for the fourth season of The Simpsons have so far been suspiciously devoid of criticism.

   • 2025 April 28, Kate Travis, “Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns”, in Retraction Watch‎, archived from the original on 10 June 2025:

     The Zurich group has shared a preliminary writeup of its findings.

Further reading

• “writeup”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “writeup”, in Wordnik.