Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Past participle of write.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
write , v.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating or characteristic of
writing (i.e., of that which has beenwritten ) - adjective That was
written . - verb Past participle of
write
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective written as for a film or play or broadcast
- adjective set down in writing in any of various ways
- adjective systematically collected and written down
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Examples
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Others have gone into great detail about the painful process Google created so writers can 'claim' or 'assert their rights in' what they've written (rights that exist *from the time it's written* according to copyright law,) Others have gone into the idiocy of Google's definition of "commercially available" (which denies some books in print and readily available online the "commercially available" label.)
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Like the Roman Pilate, _what she has written, she has written_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Begarmee, being written in the Arabic language, with the guttural letter _grain_, would be quite unintelligible, if pronounced to an African _as they are written_ by our letters, the nearest approximation to the
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
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No _written_ answer to the note of the Commissioners was delivered to them for twenty-seven days after it was written.
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CONSCIENCE _within, is written without also_; and to erase it _within_ is to get the lesson from _without_ in that universal and downright speech and language which the axioms of nature are taught in -- it is to get it in that fearful school in which nature _repeats_ the doctrine of her violated law, for those who are not able to solve and comprehend the science of it as it is _written_ -- written beforehand -- in the natural law and constitutions of the human soul.
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I have no idea, in fact, of how I myself will make the hour-long journey into the city, no certainty at all that there will be a card with my name written on it when I emerge empty-handed from the baggage claim.
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I got the giant nameplate, the bad cars and my name written on the driver's side door.
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I have no idea, in fact, of how I myself will make the hour-long journey into the city, no certainty at all that there will be a card with my name written on it when I emerge empty-handed from the baggage claim.
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I could have just cited the book's title and left it at that, a title written in 18th-century style for whatever reason: "LOSING IT—in which an aging professor laments his shrinking BRAIN, which he flatters himself formerly did him Noble Service, a Plaint, tragi-comical, historical, vengeful, sometimes satirical and thankful in six parts, if his Memory does yet serve."
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She wore a “Parent Chaperone” sticker with her name written out in green marker.
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