{
    "term": "write",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "write",
            "heSheIt": "writes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "wrote",
        "pastParticiple": "written",
        "ingForm": "writing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to make letters or numbers on a surface, especially using a pen or a pencil",
            "sensetop": "write in somethingwrite with somethingwrite something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In some countries children don't start learning to **read and write** until they are six."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please write in pen on both sides of the paper.",
                    "contextForm": "write in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I haven't got anything to write with.",
                    "contextForm": "write with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Write your name at the top of the paper.",
                    "contextForm": "write something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The teacher wrote the answers on the board."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ‘b’ had been wrongly written as a ‘d’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children must learn to write neatly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I write with an old fashioned pen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was busily writing in a notebook."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote in Arabic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The words were written in red."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please write clearly in black ink."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We teach children to write when they are about six."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Write your answer out again on a new sheet of paper."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly", "neatly", "busily"],
                "verb + write": ["learn to", "teach somebody to", "be able to"],
                "preposition": ["in", "on", "with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to produce something in written form so that people can read, perform or use it, etc.",
            "sensetop": "write somethingwrite about somethingwrite for somethingwrite somebody something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to write a novel/song/computer program",
                    "contextForm": "write something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to write an article/essay"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who was ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ written by?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Which opera did Verdi write first?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He hopes to write a book about his experiences one day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had to write a report on the project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The text is very well written."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The play was originally written for British television."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wanted to travel and then write about it.",
                    "contextForm": "write about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He writes for the ‘New Yorker’ *(= works as a writer)*.",
                    "contextForm": "write for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "No decision has been made **at the time of writing**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote him several poems.",
                    "contextForm": "write somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "After ‘Tom Sawyer’, Twain went on to write several other classic books."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Doris writes with verve and wit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been commissioned to write a history of the town."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has written extensively on the subject."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He set out to write a short book on taxation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He writes on political issues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her novel was written under the pseudonym Currer Bell."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was inspired to write the poem by a visit to the cathedral."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The role was written specifically for Rita Hayworth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a journalist who writes about problems in the developing world"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an art critic who writes regularly in the French daily ‘Le Figaro’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "history written from the perspective of the losers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Someone had written a slogan on the wall."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students will be expected to write their own computer programs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote a list on the back of an old envelope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wrote in his journal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She writes a column for ‘The New York Times’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the ability to write clearly in plain English"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film was written and directed by Tim Robbins."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has written a very positive review of the film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote an article for the respected journal Science."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children wrote stories about their pets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was asked to write a short piece of music for the orchestra."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students were required to write two research papers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wrote scripts for stage, screen and radio."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have written a few blog posts in the last couple of months."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is his only novel written for children."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing", "Music"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["beautifully", "eloquently", "well"],
                "verb + write": [
                    "commission somebody to",
                    "inspire somebody to",
                    "prompt somebody to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["about", "for", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to put information, a message of good wishes, etc. in a letter or an email and send it to somebody",
            "sensetop": "write to somebodywrite something to somebodywrite somebody somethingwrite that…write somebodywrite somebody that…write doing something",
            "labels": "(North American English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Bye! Don't forget to write."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm writing to enquire about language courses."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote to him in France.",
                    "contextForm": "write to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wrote a letter to the Publicity Department.",
                    "contextForm": "write something to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wrote the Publicity Department a letter.",
                    "contextForm": "write somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote that they were all fine.",
                    "contextForm": "write that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Write me while you're away.",
                    "contextForm": "write somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wrote me that he would be arriving Monday.",
                    "contextForm": "write somebody that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They wrote thanking us for the present.",
                    "contextForm": "write doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wrote to the editor of the newspaper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He still writes to me regularly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote me a postcard from Spain."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["beautifully", "eloquently", "well"],
                "verb + write": [
                    "commission somebody to",
                    "inspire somebody to",
                    "prompt somebody to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["about", "for", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to state the information or the words mentioned",
            "sensetop": "write that…write of something+ speech",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The author writes that this theory has now been disproved.",
                    "contextForm": "write that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.",
                    "contextForm": "write of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote of her life in Africa."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Of all my books,’ wrote Dickens, ‘I like this the best.’",
                    "contextForm": "+ speech"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["beautifully", "eloquently", "well"],
                "verb + write": [
                    "commission somebody to",
                    "inspire somebody to",
                    "prompt somebody to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["about", "for", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to put information in the appropriate places on a form",
            "sensetop": "write something (out)write somebody somethingwrite somebody out something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to write (out) a cheque",
                    "contextForm": "write something (out)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The doctor wrote her a prescription for more antibiotics.",
                    "contextForm": "write somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll write you out a receipt.",
                    "contextForm": "write somebody out something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to record data in the memory of a computer",
            "sensetop": "write (something) to/onto something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "An error was reported when he tried to write data to the file for the first time."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "to work correctly or in the way mentioned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This pen won't write."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very obvious to other people from the expression on somebody’s face",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Guilt was written all over his face."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to show clearly the quality mentioned or the influence of the person mentioned",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was a performance with star quality written all over it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This essay has got Mike written all over it."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "not especially good; ordinary",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The team’s performance was nothing to write home about."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "having no value, especially legally, or because one of the people involved has no intention of doing what they said they would",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used when you are stating that there is nothing more that can be said about something or that something is completely finished",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We were doing well but we ran out of money and that’s all she wrote."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/raɪt/",
                "audio": "ri/write/right__gb_4.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/raɪts/",
                "audio": "wr/write/writes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊt/",
                "audio": "wr/write/wrote__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrɪtn/",
                "audio": "wr/write/written__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wr/write/writing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/raɪt/",
                "audio": "wr/write/write__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/raɪts/",
                "audio": "wr/write/writes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊt/",
                "audio": "wr/write/wrote__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrɪtn/",
                "audio": "wr/write/written__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wr/write/writing__us_4.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English wrītan ‘score, form (letters) by carving, write’, of Germanic origin; related to German reissen ‘sketch, drag’."
}