英和和英

発音

• enPR: rīt, IPA: /ɹaɪt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [ɹaɪt]
  • (米国発音) IPA: /ɹəɪt/, [ɹəɪʔ]
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA: [ɹɑjt]
  • (MLE, Jamaica) IPA: [ɹæ̙ːt], [ɹæ̙ːʔ]
  • (Canada) IPA: [ɹʌɪt]
  • (Australia) IPA: [ɹɑɪt]
  • (Scotland) IPA: [ɾʌɪt] ~ [ɾəɪt]
  • (Wales) IPA: [ɾaɪt]
• 韻: -aɪt
• 異形同音異義語: right, rite, wright

動詞

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

1. (ambitransitive) 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:

     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, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 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. (intransitive) To compose and send written information (to).

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

   Please write me when you get there. (US)

   He never phones me, but he does write occasionally.

   • 1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 2:

     Thinking him somewhat inclined to be angry with her, I wrote to him in such a way as I thought would not hurt his feelings as a brother, while giving him some good advice as my junior, and remonstrating with him as in the being wrong.

4. (ditransitive) To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.

   Please write me a letter. Please write a letter to me.

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

      Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money. (US)

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

        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.

5. (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, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, 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, →OCLC, 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.

6. (intransitive) To be an author.

   I write for a living.

   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, page 151:

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

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.

   • 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 132:

     Kúnlé had failed biology and chemistry, key requirements for admission into any medical school in the country. Kúnlé’s father wanted him to write the exams again.

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

   truth written on the heart

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 2:14–15:

     14 For when the Gentiles which haue not the Law, doe by nature the things contained in the Law: these hauing not the Law, are a Law vnto themselues,
     15 Which shew the worke of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witnesse, and their thoughts the meane while accusing, or else excusing one another:

10. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
    • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; 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 [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

      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 or other derivative).
12. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.

Conjugation

同意語

• (form letters, words or symbols in order to communicate): inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or 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 (Commonwealth)
• See also Thesaurus:write

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “computing: store (data)”): load, read, retrieve

派生語

名詞

write (plural 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
• torn write

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “write”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “write”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• twier, twire

動詞

wrīte

1. inflection of wrītan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

動詞

write

1. inflection of wrītan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive