Definitions for writing
ˈraɪ tɪŋwrit·ing

Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. writing, authorship, composition, penningnoun

   the act of creating written works

   "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"

2. writing, written material, piece of writingnoun

   the work of a writer; 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"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"

3. writingnoun

   (usually plural) the collected work of an author

   "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"

4. writingnoun

   letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language

   "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"

5. writing, committal to writingnoun

   the activity of putting something in written form

   "she did the thinking while he did the writing"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. writingnoun

   Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.

2. writingnoun

   Something written, such as a document, article or book.

3. writingnoun

   The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.

4. writingnoun

   A work of an author.

5. writingnoun

   The style of writing of a person.

   I can't read your writing.

6. writingnoun

   Intended for or used in writing.

   a writing table

Wikipedia(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Writing

   Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language with signs and symbols. For languages that utilize a writing system, inscriptions can complement spoken language by creating a durable version of speech that can be stored for future reference or transmitted across distance. Writing, in other words, is not a language, but a tool used to make languages readable. Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar, and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols. The result of writing is called text, and the recipient of text is called a reader. H.G. Wells argued that writing has the ability to "put agreements, laws, commandments on record. It made the growth of states larger than the old city states possible. It made a continuous historical consciousness possible. The command of the priest or king and his seal could go far beyond his sight and voice and could survive his death". As human societies emerged, collective motivations for the development of writing were driven by pragmatic exigencies like keeping history, maintaining culture, codifying knowledge through curricula and lists of texts deemed to contain foundational knowledge (e.g., The Canon of Medicine) or artistically exceptional (e.g., a literary canon), organizing and governing societies through the formation of legal systems, census records, contracts, deeds of ownership, taxation, trade agreements, treaties, and so on. For example, around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration in Mesopotamia outgrew human memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form. In both ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, on the other hand, writing may have evolved through calendric and political necessities for recording historical and environmental events. Individual motivations for writing include improvised additional capacity for the limitations of human memory (e.g., to-do lists, recipes, reminders, logbooks, maps, the proper sequence for a complicated task or important ritual), dissemination of ideas (as in an essay, monograph, broadside, petition, or manifesto), imaginative narratives and other forms of storytelling, personal or business correspondence, and lifewriting (e.g., a diary or journal).

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Writing

   of Write

2. Writingnoun

   the act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs

3. Writingnoun

   anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters

4. Writingnoun

   any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like

5. Writingnoun

   any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison

6. Writingnoun

   an inscription

7. Writingnoun

   handwriting; chirography

Freebase(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Writing

   Writing is language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols. It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio. Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration in Mesopotamia outgrew human memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form. In both Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity for recording historical and environmental events. The oldest known use of writing in China was in divination in the royal court.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Writing

   The act or practice of literary composition, the occupation of writer, or producing or engaging in literary work as a profession.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. writing

   The act and process of to write.

   The gift of writing is beautiful and its good to be neat, tidy and orderly.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 19, 2020  

2. writingverb

   Verb form of the word write.

   Writing is very important as we all need to write every day.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 4, 2020  

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Matched Categories

1. • Oeuvre
   • Verbal Creation
   • Written Communication

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'writing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1765

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'writing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1170

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'writing' in Nouns Frequency: #739

How to pronounce writing?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say writing in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of writing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of writing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of writing in a Sentence

1. Catherine Drinker Bowen:

   Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

2. Peter Sokolowski:

   The girl quoting the definitions before (pronouncer Jacques) Bailly said them stated the usage note from our unabridged dictionary verbatim. ... Its a very specific kind of writing that we do. I thought, Oh my goodness, this 13-year-old girl is quoting our dictionary back to us, these spellers as a group simply were unusually gifted. They may indicate that we have entered a new era of competition.

3. Malcolm Spellman:

   But there’s no connective tissue between us and what’s coming out in the media, i don’t know that we can change anyone’s mind but what people have to understand is, and what we are obligated to repeat in every interview is : We’ve got black aunties. We’ve got black nephews, uncles. Black parents and black grandparents. We deal with them every single day. We deal with the struggle every single day. And people don’t have to get on board with what we’re doing based on a press release. But when they’re writing about us, and commenting about us, they should be mindful of the fact that there are no sell-outs involved in this show.

4. Pliny the Elder:

   True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

5. Chris Roberts:

   If you're saying we lent this money for this project or development effort, and we're just writing it off because we know we're never going to get it back.

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