Word Meanings - WRITING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or

Additional info about word: WRITING

1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters; as: Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like. Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison. An inscription. And Pilate wrote a title . . . And the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. John xix. 19. 3. Handwriting; chirography. Writing book, a book for practice in penmanship. -- Writing desk, a desk with a sloping top for writing upon; also, a case containing writing materials, and used in a similar manner. -- Writing lark , the European yellow-hammer; -- so called from the curious irregular lines on its eggs. -- Writing machine. Same as Typewriter. -- Writing master, one who teaches the art of penmanship. -- Writing obligatory , a bond. -- Writing paper, paper intended for writing upon with ink, usually finished with a smooth surface, and sized. -- Writing school, a school for instruction in penmanship. -- Writing table, a table fitted or used for writing upon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WRITING)

• Correspondence
• Fitness
• agreement
• adaptation
• congruity
• answerableness
• match
• congeniality
• communication
• letter
• writing
• despatches

Related words: (words related to WRITING)

• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• CONGRUITY
  Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• MATCHLOCK
  An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
• COMMUNICATION
  A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTER
  A single type; type, collectively; a style of type. Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. Evelyn. 6. pl. (more info) litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere,
• MATCH-CLOTH
  A coarse cloth.
• MATCH PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• MATCH
  1. To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal. No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness. Shak. 2. To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• MISMATCH
  To match unsuitably.
• IMMATCHABLE
  Matchless; peerless. Holland.
• INCONGRUITY
  1. The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety. The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship