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wrote 音标拼音: [r'ot] vbl. write的过去式 write的过去式 Write \ Write\, v. t. [ imp. { Wrote}; p. p. { Written}; Archaic imp. & p. p. { Writ}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Writing}.] [ OE. writen, AS. wr[ imac] tan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS. wr[ imac] tan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. r[ imac] zan, Icel. r[ imac] ta to write, Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf. { Race} tribe, lineage.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter. [ 1913 Webster] Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her I loved. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author. [ 1913 Webster] I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one' s own written testimony; -- often used reflexively. [ 1913 Webster] He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { To write to}, to communicate by a written document to. { Written laws}, laws deriving their force from express legislative enactment, as contradistinguished from unwritten, or common, law. See the Note under { Law}, and { Common law}, under { Common}, a. [ 1913 Webster]
Wrote \ Wrote\, v. i. [ OE. wroten. See 1st { Root}.] To root with the snout. See 1st { Root}. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Wrote \ Wrote\, imp. & archaic p. p. of { Write}. [ 1913 Webster]
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