writing
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(noun) the activity of putting something in written form: "she did the thinking while he did the writing" |
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Related Words: activity, coding, handwriting, stenography |
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(noun) the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" |
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Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning |
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Related Words: drafting, fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization, lexicography, novelisation, novelization, redaction, verbal creation, versification |
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(noun) letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible" |
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Synonyms: symbolic representation |
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Related Words: capitalization, coding system, hand, handwriting, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, notation, notational system, orthography, printing, printing process, script, skywriting, typewriting, typing, writing system, written communication, written language |
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(noun) reading matter; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent" |
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Synonyms: written material |
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Related Words: adaptation, autograph, criticism, cryptogram, cryptograph, diary, document, dramatic composition, dramatic work, editing, essay, inscription, journal, lettering, literary composition, literary criticism, literary work, literature, manuscript, material, matter, ms, papers, paragraph, plagiarism, redaction, religious text, religious writing, rescript, revision, rewrite, sacred text, sacred writing, screed, secret writing, section, subdivision, summarization, summary, title, treatise, version, written communication, written document, written language |
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(noun) (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings" |
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Related Words: body of work, oeuvre, work, written communication, written language |
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