writing

plural writings

1. uncountableGraphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.

   Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.

   2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 115

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   Because writing of any kind is no more and no less than a graphic representation of speech[…], to study its nature and history we must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes.

   2003, William G. Boltz, The Origin and the Development of the Chinese Writing System, page 14

   Synonyms: text

2. countableSomething written, such as a document, article or book.

   Synonyms: document, manuscript, text

3. uncountableThe process of representing a language with symbols or letters.
4. countableA work of an author.

   Congrats, you did an interesting piece of writing.

   Synonyms: work

5. countableThe style of writing of a person.

   I can't read your writing.

   Synonyms: hand, handwriting

6. countableuncountableIntended for or used in writing.

   a writing table

   Synonyms: alphabet, character, ideogram, logogram, pictogram, script, syllabary, writing system

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of write

   What are you doing? ― Um, I’m writing. ― You are writing! You are writing a lot!

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