1. Set down in writing in any of various ways
   "written evidence" 
2. Systematically collected and written down
   "written laws" 
3. Written as for a film or play or broadcast
   - scripted

1. Produce a literary work
   "He wrote four novels"
   - compose, pen, indite [archaic] 
2. Communicate or express by writing
   "Please write to me every week" 
3. Have (one's written work) issued for publication
   "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"
   - publish 
4. Communicate (with) in writing
   "Write to her soon, please!"
   - drop a line 
5. Communicate by letter
   "He wrote that he would be coming soon" 
6. Write music
   - compose 
7. Mark or trace on a surface
   "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper" 
8. Record data on a computer
   - save 
9. Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
   - spell 
10. Create code, write a computer program
    "She writes code faster than anybody else"
    - code

See also: backhand, codified, cursive, engrossed, graphic, graphical, handwritten, holographic, in writing, inscribed, left-slanting, longhand, scrivened [archaic], shorthand, statute, write out, writer, writing

Type of: communicate, correspond, create, create by mental act, create mentally, create verbally, delineate, describe, draw, intercommunicate, line, make, record, tape, trace

Antonym: spoken, unwritten

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