| 单词 | writing down |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswriting down Compounds C1. a. As a modifier, designating implements or equipment used for writing, as writing apparatus, writing brush, writing fluid, writing implement, writing tool, etc.See also writing ink n., writing pen n. Π eOE Royal Psalter xliv. 2 Lingua mea calamus scribę uelociter scribentis : tunge min writingfeþer boceres [lOE Canterbury Psalter writingfeþere gewriteres] hrædlice writendes. OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 196) (O.E.D. transcript) 13 Aug. (2013) 160 Hig hyne onslogon myd hyra writebredum, and hyne ofsticodon myd hyra writingisenum [OE Julius writeyrenum]. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 7/2 Graphium, a writing wyer. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 261 The sharp point of a bodkin or writing steele. 1663 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 501 A pair of writing gloves, 1s. 1800 M. Koops Hist. Acc. Inv. Paper 37 Charta Augusta..being too thin for the writing-cane. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. viii. vi. 278 That minister..made me take my writing apparatus. 1819 Patents (1869) 21 A machine..which I denominate the penographic or writing instrument. 1825 W. Scott Talisman viii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 165 Give him writing-tools. 1840 Patents (1869) 56 Ink or writing fluids. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 134 Mrs. Sparsit was conscious that by coming in the evening-tide among the desks and writing implements, she shed a feminine..grace. 1921 H. E. Palmer Princ. Lang.-study vii. 85 Suppose we wish to make Chinese characters with a native writing-brush. 2021 Star (Sheffield) (Nexis) 31 Mar. Rules about uniform, jewellery, footwear, PE kit, exercise books, writing equipment and so on often prove a stumbling block. b. writing dust n. rare (historical in later use) sand, pounce (pounce n.3 1) or another powdery substance used to dry wet ink after writing; cf. writing sand n.Apparently an isolated use in quot. 1646, on which later historical references depend. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > materials for blotting blotting-paper1519 pin-dust1561 blotter1591 blotting-book1598 writing dust1646 writing sand1656 sucking-papera1665 pounce1704 sand1753 blotting-pad1857 blotting1872 roller1875 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 69 The shining or glassie powder brought from the Indies, and usually implyed [i.e. employed] in writing dust . View more context for this quotation 1962 Bulletin (L.A. Museum of Art) 15 13 For want of it [sc. blotting paper], you sprinkled fine blotting-sand or ‘writing dust’ over the wet ink on your paper. writing sand n. now historical sand or a similar powdery substance used to dry wet ink after writing; fine sand of a type suitable to used in this way. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > materials for blotting blotting-paper1519 pin-dust1561 blotter1591 blotting-book1598 writing dust1646 writing sand1656 sucking-papera1665 pounce1704 sand1753 blotting-pad1857 blotting1872 roller1875 1656 Knowl. & Ordering Wines 377 in Skilful Physician Take halfe a quarter of a pound of white Starch, and about a quart of small writing sand, and a pint of Ising glasse. 1750 R. Heath Nat. & Hist. Acct. Scilly 57 [A bay] where the Beach..is covered with an exceeding fine Writing Sand. 1803 C. Hatchett in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 174 Fine white writing-sand. 1854 Sc. Guardian 10 Oct. Micaceous sand, resembling gold dust, and so fine as to surpass the most beautiful writing sand sold by stationers. 1872 W. Crookes tr. R. von Wagner Handbk. Chem. Technol. iii. 336 The fibrous gypsum is sometimes used for writing sand, as a substitute for pounce, &c. 2001 J. Nickell in H. Crafts Bondwoman's Narr. (2002) 298 I searched in vain for any use of blotting paper, instead discovering a few instances of the use of writing sand. C2. a. In general use as a modifier, with the sense ‘of, for, or relating to writing’, as , writing course, writing exercise, writing lesson, writing-speed, writing system, writing terms, writing work. Π 1429 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 154 (MED) iij lod of corn to Jowbell..qwych he kepyth in partie of payment for wrytyng werke. 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie Peroration 234 The platting of this my writing course. 1788 W. Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 205 My writing-time is expended. 1820 Morning Post 21 Feb. (advt.) Poems, History of Writing System, and Essay on Short-hand.—Weekly Lectures. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iii. 89 Preparations for giving Kit a writing lesson. 1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. ii. ii. 83 The two were not..on speaking, or even on writing terms. 1875 E. A. Davidson House-painting 206 What is called the Script or writing character, the most elegant of all. 1946 H. P. Maynard in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. 188 One of the most important skills is that of writing-speed. 1953 C. F. Hockett in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 58/1 In devising a writing-system one can..eliminate a symbol needed earlier. 1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 20 Almost all Native American writing systems developed..for bilingual education purposes utilize writing systems similar to English. 2011 J. Gleick Information ii. 33 An intermediate stage is the syllabary, a phonetic writing system using individual characters to represent syllables, which may or may not be meaningful. b. As a modifier, with the sense ‘engaged for or employed in writing’, as writing class, writing clerk, writing hand. Π 1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 169 Sephar, A rehearsall. A book. Trumpeting. A wryting Clerk. A number. 1772 J. Wedgwood Let. 28 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 136 What were all the rest of the Writing Clerks doing not to observe this. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vi. 126 My lawyer['s]..writing-clerk (habited as a sharp-shooter) walked to and fro before his door. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xiii. §2867 Saving the cost of a writing clerk. 1896 Harper's Mag. June 17 If he ever puts me into one of his books I'll..amputate his writing-hand. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 79 The writing-classes joggled each others' arms and elbows. 1913 State of N.Y. Hosp. Bull. 6 383 Very bright in school.., efficient in his work as writing clerk and bookkeeper being very accurate in his accounts. c. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of or relating to the composition and setting down of written work, esp. literary production or musical composition, professional authorship, etc.’, as in writing career, writing process, writing talent, etc. ΚΠ 1675 A. Marvell Let. 13 May in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 155 Hauing been always on writing nights in an hurry. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man Epil. 75 My writing days are over. 1805 W. Scott Let. 12 Apr. (1932) I. 248 I shall hold myself well paid on the writing hand. 1843 To Reader in O. Bacheler Restoration & Conversion Jews 3 The publishers of the following work..deem it proper to say a few words respecting the writing talents and qualifications of the author. 1900 Vassar Misc. Mar. 357 The theory of composition teaching has been completely reconstructed by shifting the emphasis from the writing-product to the writing-process. 1938 Illustr. London News 12 Feb. 252/3 He [sc. W. Somerset Maugham] is illuminating on the writing profession and melancholy about love. 1973 T. Williams MS 8 May in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 291 I feel like my writing career is washed up. 1989 Psychol. Today Sept. 69/2 What better way to improve writing skills than to work for a nit-picking editor-in-chief of a big-city newspaper? 1994 Independent on Sunday 11 Dec. (Review Suppl.) 32/4 Their beguiling blend of classic songcraft and eerie studio atmospherics grew out of a tortuous writing process. 2006 New Yorker 5 June 66/3 She started her writing career..as a beat reporter for a Florentine newspaper. C3. a. As a modifier, designating a piece of furniture used for writing, esp. (part of) one which provides a flat surface upon which writing may be carried out, as writing chair, writing ledge, writing slope.See also writing board n., writing box n., writing desk n., writing table n. 2. Π Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 534 Wrytynge borde, pluteum. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 425 A Wrytynge chare, epicaustorium. 1855 Patents (1869) 179 [The cover] which forms the continuation of the writing slope. 1902 How to Make Things 53/1 The construction of the writing ledge. 2019 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Nov. (Features section) 10 Adding a wedge-shaped cushion to the chair and a writing slope to the desk are effective measures to..avoid bending of the spine. b. writing bed n. chiefly North American (now rare) a board or level surface for writing on, esp. one forming part of a desk, writing table, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > other materials for writing on > [noun] sand-table1812 ostracon1853 writing bed1891 sand-tray1893 1891 Decorator & Furnisher Aug. 165/2 Each desk has a hardwood writing bed, sliding pigeon-hole fronts with white silicate labels attached for pencil marking..etc. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 14 Apr. 3/5 (advt.) Writing Desks. Just the thing for the home, nicely finished in Imperial Golden Oak, large writing bed with enclosed pigeon holes for papers. 1971 New Yorker 8 May 3 Open, it's a sewing table. Closed, it's a writing bed..a fine mahogany Sheraton. 1987 Leader-Times (Kittanning, Pa.) 10 Dec. 7/2 The flat working area [of a rolltop desk] was known as the writing bed and it varied from about 30 to 44 inches deep. writing cabinet n. a piece of furniture in which a writing desk (esp. one that folds down or slides out when in use) is combined with drawers and shelves to hold stationery, documents, etc.; (sometimes) the upper part of such a piece of furniture, housing the desk or writing surface, pigeonholes, small drawers, etc. ΘΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > writing cabinet writing cabinet1803 mailbox1819 1803 T. Sheraton Cabinet Dict. 303 Scrutoir, an old word for what we now term a secretary, or writing cabinet. 1819 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 27 Apr. (advt.) In front of the rooms, at 1 o'clock 6 elegant mahogany bureaus; 2 sideboards; 1 writing cabinet; 4 breakfast and card tables; and a variety of other articles. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 758 Monocleid writing cabinet... The whole of the drawers, closets, and partitions may be opened by one lock. 1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles iii. 87 Small walnut and marquetry fall-front writing cabinets on chests of drawers or stands. 2003 Country Life 30 Jan. 76/1 The writing cabinet shown here..probably began its strange and eventful life in late-17th-century Holland. writing case n. a portable case for holding writing materials and paper, and typically providing a desk or surface to write upon. ΘΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > writing-case scriptor1474 writing box1474 writing desk1743 writing case1778 letterbox1784 lap desk1937 society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > writing-case > portable case with writing surface writing case1778 1778 Morning Chron. 31 Oct. Ladies and Gentlemens Dressing and Writing Cases, plain Travelling Cases, Mahogany Wine Cellars, Surgeons Dispensaries, [etc.]. 1813 M. Edgeworth Let. 19 Apr. (1971) 25 Mrs. Sneyd and Emma have given me a most convenient red morocco writing case. 1853 Arab. Nights (Rtldg.) 253 He drew from a little writing-case..some paper, a cut cane, and an ink-horn. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iv. 209 Crown-Prince has given him in keeping a writing-case with private letters. 1999 Christmas at WHSmith Catal. 61/1 This bonded leather writing case comes with premium quality ‘laid’ writing paper and envelopes. writing slider n. a sliding board or shelf incorporated into a cabinet, chest of drawers, table, etc., which may be pulled out to provide a level surface for writing on. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > chest of drawers > [noun] > sliding shelf in writing slider1803 1803 T. Sheraton Cabinet Dict. 261 The top drawer [of a lobby chest] is usually divided into two; and sometimes there is a writing slider which draws out under the top. 1969 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. (rev. ed.) 731 Writing slider, a sliding shelf, made to draw out beneath the top of a chest of drawers. 2018 @mdoyleantiques 11 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Apr. 2021) Unique Mid-Century Italian Painted Harlequin Table. Three drawers with pull out writing slider. writing standish n. now historical and rare a (desktop or tabletop) stand for holding pens, ink, and other writing equipment; cf. standish n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > writing stand standisha1350 writing standish1703 ink-standishc1730 inkstand1773 loggerhead1904 suzuribako1967 1703 Inventory Estate Duchess of Richmond & Lennox in Lancaster Gaz. (1892) 9 July The Garter robes compleate ffour leather trunks a small piece of fflannell thirty lb of chocolatt A writeing standish. 1834 Durham Advertiser 30 May On Tuesday last, the young gentlemen of Mr Campbell's school..presented him with a very elegant writing standish, together wuth a silver pen and other appendages. 1903 Burlington Mag. Apr. 20/1 On March 16 Messrs. Puttick made £50 of a writing-standish. 1964 C. Deelman Great Shakespeare Jubilee ii. 50 Records are to be found listing cups and goblets.., tooth pick cases, writing standishes, ink-horns and pen cases [said to have been made from wood from Shakespeare's mulberry tree]. C4. As a modifier, designating materials used or made to be written on, as writing cloth, writing material, writing slate. Cf. sense 14.See also writing book n., writing pad n. 2, writing paper n., writing tablet n. Π 1477 Inventory in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1884) 3 Half a Reem..wrytyng paper price, xxd. 1800 M. Koops Hist. Acc. Inv. Paper 33 These writing-materials were not in general use. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 63 2 [Reams] Writing Royal. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 540 Dowse's patent tracing and writing cloth. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2477/2 Table, a tablet..[or] writing-surface. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 36 To get out his writing materials, and to scribble. C5. Chiefly Scottish. As a modifier, designating a room, building, etc., in which clerical, administrative, or esp. legal work involving written documents is carried out. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > room or chamber for writing writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > room or chamber for writing > booth or stall where writing is transacted writing booth1568 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > writing room scriptorya1500 writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 scriptorium1828 scrivenery1895 1568 Accts. Treasurer Scotl. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Writin(g Thomas Sinclairis writting buith. 1597 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 121 Ane hous..to be ane vreting buyth to..thair servitour and clerk. 1609 in Hist. Writers to Signet (1890) p. xlvii All wrytteris to the signet are..bothe..in the streittis and in thair wreitting boathe, to wear..a gowne. 1898 Wide World Mag. July 448 (caption) Public writing booths [sc. the booths of the public scribes] in Barcelona. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > room or chamber for writing writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > writing room scriptorya1500 writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 scriptorium1828 scrivenery1895 1563 Instructionis to Commissaris of Edinb. (Edinb. La.III 388a) f. 28 The clerk alwayis finding paper Ink wax and writtin chalmer. 1618 in Hist. Writers to Signet (1890) p. xliii The wryting chalmer of Adame Lawtie. 1708 J. Spottiswoode Introd. Stile of Writs Pref. I did draw out of my Collections I had made, while in a Writing-Chamber,..such [etc.]. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > room or chamber for writing writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > writing room scriptorya1500 writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 scriptorium1828 scrivenery1895 1597 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 153 The wreitting hous for the clerk of this burght. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Scrittoio,..a counting house or writing house. C6. As a modifier, designating a device used to produce a written or typed document, or to reproduce or copy such a document, as writing engine, writing machine, etc. Π 1695 Athenian Mercury 9 Apr. The Writing Engine, for taking several Copies of the same thing at once. 1705 J. Dunton Life & Errors iv. 239 [Ridpath] invented The Polygraphy, or Writing Engin. 1878 Brit. Trade Jrnl. 2 Dec. 630/1 It is claimed that the writing ball possesses many advantages over the ordinary method of writing with a pen. The writing is easy to read,..and as many as ten copies made at once. 1895 W. M. Morrill in Amer. Electr. Cases 2 449 Cowper's writing telegraph has lately been invented, the nature of which is that a person holding a pen at one end of the wire can write or even draw with it, and..a fac-simile is produced by a corresponding pen..at the other end of the wire. 1936 Coleman (Alberta) Jrnl. 22 Oct. 8/3 (advert.) The improved Remington-Rand Portable Typewriters are without question the finest value and most durable writing machines made. 2017 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) in courier-journal.com 5 May (accessed 20 July 2021) Hard to believe that the writing device that I began my career on almost four decades ago is now a ‘rare, vintage antique’. C7. writing diamond n. a diamond-tipped tool used esp. for cutting glass; cf. diamond n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > glass-making equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment grozier1404 grozing-iron1688 diamond1697 writing diamond1813 pencil diamond1837 1813 in F. Accum Elements Crystallogr. 395 (advt.) Copper Deflagerating Ladles—Writing Diamonds—Masks, to defend the Eye against Accidents in Chemical Operations. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. iii. 71 Fragments of diamond..set in handles..are called scratching or writing diamonds. 1917 C. E. Waters Compar. Tests Porcelain Lab. Ware (Technol. Papers U.S. Bureau of Standards No. 105) 2 Each piece was roughly weighed and, after having been arranged in the order of its weight, was lightly marked near the rim by means of a writing diamond. 2008 T. D. Allen Introd. Electron Microsc. Biologists xx. 396 It is helpful to mark the position of the envelope by circling the area with a writing diamond. writing-frame n. a frame with guides designed to help a blind or partially-sighted person in writing; cf. noctograph n. ΘΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > guide for blind or partially-sighted writers chiragon1832 writing-frame1848 cecograph1851 noctograph1864 typhlograph1891 1848 Norfolk News 29 July (advt.) Farnell's writing gradations, writing frame..&c. a simple but quick, infallible, and cheap method of teaching all persons good writing. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2823/1 Writing-frames for the blind. 1952 E. B. Garside tr. C. W. Ceram Gods, Graves, & Scholars iv. xxiii. 351 Prescott was bent over a special writing-frame made for the blind and near-blind, the so-called noctograph, invented by a certain Wedgewood. 2017 @Sneakykiwe 6 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Apr. 2021) Where in lsk can I buy a stylus and sketch board/writing frame for blind people? writing hand n. (a) the hand with which a person usually writes, esp. the right hand; †(b) Medicine a position of the hand resembling that assumed when holding a pen, thought to be characteristic of Parkinson's disease (obsolete). Π 1651 E. Hall Manus Testium Movens 34 Th[e] right hand is the writing hand, now with that they must give a marke. 1720 Answer to Whimsical Pamphlet 11 You ought to have..your impious Tongue cut out, and thy writing Hand be baked in my Oven when it is hottest. 1877 G. Sigerson tr. J. M. Charcot Lect. Dis. Nerv. Syst. v. 141 (caption) The writing hand. Habitual attitude of the hand at a somewhat advanced stage of paralysis agitans. 1921 M. Keschner in F. Tice et al. Pract. Med. X. 516 The hand may assume a position similar to that in which a pen is held (Charcot's writing hand). 2007 New Yorker 10 Dec. 58/3 My father sat in his favorite yellow chair, writing hand atrophied by some mystery plague, mind afield in a pharmaceutical fog. writing-room n. a room in which writing is done, esp. a one set aside for this purpose. ΘΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > room or chamber for writing writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > writing room scriptorya1500 writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 scriptorium1828 scrivenery1895 1670 J. Beale Let. 3 Jan. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1969) VI. 403 In a little Writing-room, in the second row of Buildings. 1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. I. vi. 108 Monasteries had..Museums, Scriptoria, or writing-rooms. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. i. 5 The adjoining writing-room. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Feb. ii. 13/3 He plans on staying in both theater and television. ‘I'm a multitasker,’ he said in the writing room he rents near Times Square. writing speed n. now chiefly historical (a) Electronics the maximum speed at which an electron beam can scan the screen of a cathode-ray tube and its path still be recorded (either by the excitation of phosphors or as an image on photographic film); (b) (in audio and video tape recording) the effective speed of the tape past a head when the rotation of the head is taken into account. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video recorder or player > speed of videotape past head writing speed1932 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > cathode-ray tube > [noun] > cathode ray > maximum speed of writing speed1932 1932 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 71 71/2 I should like to say that for us the distinguishing and only valuable characteristic associated with oscillographs is their maximum writing speed. 1960 Philips Techn. Rev. 4 Nov. 1/1 If the recording head is stationary, as it always is in sound recording, the writing speed is the linear speed of the tape past the head. 1981 I. Hickman Oscilloscopes vii. 95 Writing speed is defined as the maximum speed at which a spot, passing once across the tube face, can be photographed under specified conditions. 1984 What Video? Aug. 24/1 The soundtrack was being recorded at a writing speed of 580 cm per second—that's over 15 times the speed of professional studio recordings. 1998 G. R. Capelo & R. C. Brenner VCR Troubleshooting & Repair (ed. 3) 129/1 This head-to-tape relationship is called writing speed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > script type writing type1815 ronde1825 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris App. p. xli Writing types, by Henry Didot; a kind of letter which is much used in France. C8. With adverbs, forming nouns of action corresponding to the phrasal verbs at write v. Phrasal verbs, as in writing down, writing out, writing up, etc. a. In various general senes. Π 1657 Devils Cabinet broke Open 37 My own thoughts prompt me on readily to set a helping hand to the writing out of so eminent an evill, as that practised by such as make a trade of sin. 1790 Public Advertiser 7 Aug. The improvement is, the writing up the names of the several towns and villages on the first and last houses of each. 1790 World 23 Sept. The reflection that naturally springs from this consideration, is too obvious to require the writing down. 1898 J. Taylor tr. E. Kautzsch Hist. Lit. Old Test. 10 The writing out of the products of those earlier days. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 9/2 [The] music-hall agents..said that due notice of ‘writing in’ was given. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 28 June 11/1 Its sister in misfortune..dare not face the writing-off stage yet. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 4/2 The ‘writing-out’ process from which most popular authors suffer. 1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. v. 88 In this writing-up side of his work the social anthropologist faces a serious difficulty. 1960 Guardian 24 June 10/7 Simplification without ‘writing down’ can serve a good purpose. 2021 Times 15 Feb. 18 Dr Nash said he was against punishments such as the memorizing of poetry, the writing out of Latin verse, and extra school work. b. (a) In financial contexts, with back, down, off, and up, now chiefly denoting various accountancy actions, process, or adjustments expressed by the underlying phrasal verb.See to write back 2 at write v. Phrasal verbs, to write down 5 at write v. Phrasal verbs, to write off 1b at write v. Phrasal verbs, to write up 7 at write v. Phrasal verbs; cf. write-back n., writedown n., write-off n. 2, write-up n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > specific processes allowance1528 allocation1535 writing1732 liquidating1749 set-off1766 write-back1873 whack1885 clear-up1901 virement1902 accrual accounting1915 writedown1920 accruals accounting1963 cookie jar1975 1732 Daily Courant 3 July They do now give Notice, That in order to the Writing off from every Proprietor's Account of Stock the 6 1 4th per Cent. which, by the Act of the last Sessions of Parliament, is annihilated from the 24th of June last [etc.]. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 6/3 Some scheme for the writing down of capital. 1912 Times 19 Dec. 18/5 The scheme provided for the writing off of capital liabilities. 1927 Daily Tel. 14 June 3/2 Last year's realised profits, less writings off, was £12,343 higher. 2001 Jrnl. Econ. Issues 35 425 There were no national standards for separate headings on accounts, for the paying in of capital, or the writing up of assets. 2005 Fairlady (Cape Town) Feb. 141/3 Amortisation is the gradual writing off of a debt like a bond through regular payment over a specified period of time. 2016 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 24 It was unable to give any more detail on the exceptionals or the split of its business, but said a writing-down of the value of coal stocks had played a part. (b) writing down allowance n. British Finance and Accounting a tax allowance granted to businesses, whereby the value of new assets (such as plant, equipment, or machinery) may be added to the written-down value (written-down value n. at written adj. and n. Compounds 2b(b)) of assets acquired in previous years, and a certain percentage of the total value (representing depreciation in value of the newly acquired assets) is claimed. ΚΠ 1922 Hist. Ministry of Munitions III. iii. iv. 89 In one case the committee recommended a 16⅔ per cent. higher writing-down allowance on buildings and a 13½ per cent. higher allowance on machinery. 1984 M. P. Devereux & C. P. Mayer Corporation Tax 5 The system which was introduced—one based on historic cost profits, gross of depreciation, and with a limited class of writing down allowances—is not a new one. 2015 Sunday Times 17 May (Business section) 10/7 Cars with higher emissions receive an 18% or 8% annual writing-down allowance on the cost, depending on their published emissions values. < as lemmas |
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