write on
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Definition
Verb: 1. To compose text about a specific subject or topic; to produce a written work focusing on a particular theme, person, or event.
Usage
The verb phrase "write on" is used to indicate the action of authoring a text where the primary subject or topic is specified. It is followed by the topic itself. * You write on a topic. * An author writes on a subject.
Examples
- The historian writes on medieval European politics.
- She plans to write on the impacts of climate change for her thesis.
- Many philosophers have written on the nature of consciousness.
Advanced Usage
- "To write on and on": This is an idiomatic extension meaning to write at great, often excessive, length.
- He can write on and on about his favorite films without pausing.
Variants and Related Words
- Write-up (noun): A written account, report, or review.
- The journalist prepared a write-up of the event.
- Writer (noun): A person who writes.
Synonyms
- Write about: To compose text concerning a topic.
- Treat: To deal with or discuss in writing.
- Cover: To include or deal with as a subject in writing.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Write off: To dismiss as unimportant or a failure; to cancel a debt.
- The critic wrote off the new play as amateurish.
- Write up: To write a full or formal account of something.
- Please write up the minutes from the meeting.
Related Idioms
- Nothing to write home about: Not especially good or exciting; mediocre.
- The performance was okay, but it was nothing to write home about.
Verb
- write about a particular topic
- Snow wrote about China