writeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: rīt, IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt
• 異形同音異義語: right, rite, wright

A painting of a man writing.

動詞

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (古風な用法) writ, past participle written or (古風な用法) writ or (廃れた用法) ywriten)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

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

   My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     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.

3. (transitive) To send written information to.

   (UK) Please write to me when you get there.

   (US) Please write me when you get there.

4. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

   The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.

5. (intransitive) To be an author.

   I write for a living.

6. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.

   The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.

7. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.

   I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.

8. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

   truth written on the heart

9. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
   • 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640:

     He who writes himself Martyr by his own inscription, is like an ill painter, who by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.

Conjugation

同意語

• (form letters, words または symbols in order to communicate): inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly または imprecisely)
• (be the author of): author, pen
• (send (a letter) to): to post
• (show (information, etc) in written form): display, indicate, mark, show
• (computing: store (data)): save, store
• (fill in, complete): sit (通例)
• See also Thesaurus:write

反意語

• (computing: store (data)): load, read, retrieve

派生語

関連する語

名詞

write (複数形 writes)

1. The act or style of writing.
   • 1938, The Bankers Monthly (volume 55, page 591)

     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.

2. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

   How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

   • 2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)

     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.

派生語

• quick-write

参照

• write in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• write in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

アナグラム

• twier, twire