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 […], 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.

   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, p. 151:

     Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.

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.

   • 1957 September 30, “Ghana: White Eminence”, in Time‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., ISSN 0928-8430, OCLC 224518090, archived from the original on 19 October 2011:

     Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice."

   • 1959 August, K. Hoole, “The Middlesbrough–Newcastle Route of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, ISSN 0141-9935, OCLC 35845948, page 359:

     The route passes over low-lying land, the only item of note being the Cerebos salt works at Greatham, where one may catch a glimpse of the smart black diesel locomotive emblazoned with the firm's name writ large.

5. (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.

   Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.

   • 1916 March 11, “[advertisement] Jim Henry, Optimist”, in Saturday Evening Post‎^[2]:

     Do you know, one man actually wrote me he thought he could almost shave with the back of the blade, the lather "mellowed" his beard so.

6. (intransitive) To be an author.
   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, p. 151:

     I said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent.

   I write for a living.

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

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

8. (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.

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

   truth written on the heart

10. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

      Thoſe walled garriſons will I ſubdue,
      And write my ſelfe great Lord of Affrica:
      So from the Eaſt vnto the furtheſt Weſt,
      Shall Tamburlaine extend his puiſant arme.

    • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [EIKONOKLASTES] […], London: […] 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.

11. (finance) To sell (an option または other derivative).

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

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