write out
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Definition
Verb: 1. To write something in full or complete form: To transcribe or compose information, thoughts, or a document in its entirety, often from notes, dictation, or memory. 2. To make out and issue a formal document: To prepare and complete a formal written instrument, such as a check, prescription, or official form, for use or issuance.
Examples of Usage
Verb (To write in full form):
- The student had to write out the answers to all the questions in complete sentences.
- She wrote out her speech word for word to practice.
- Can you write out the instructions so I don't forget them?
Verb (To issue a formal document):
- The doctor will write out a prescription for your medication.
- Please write out a check for the amount due.
- The officer wrote out a ticket for the parking violation.
Advanced Usage
- "to write something out in longhand": To write something in full using one's own handwriting, as opposed to typing or using shorthand.
- He prefers to write out his first drafts in longhand before typing them.
Variants and Related Words
- Write-up (noun): A written account, report, or review.
- The journalist prepared a write-up of the event.
- Write-in (noun/adjective): Relating to a candidate whose name is not printed on the ballot but is written in by voters.
- She was a write-in candidate for the local election.
Synonyms
- Transcribe: To make a written copy of spoken or recorded material.
- Draft: To write a preliminary version of a text.
- Issue: To prepare and send out or make available officially.
- Fill out: To complete a form by writing the required information (often used for forms, similar in function for documents).
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Write down: To record information on paper. (Focuses on the act of recording, not necessarily on the completeness or formality of the document.)
- I need to write down your phone number.
- Write up: To write a full or formal report or account of something.
- The researcher will write up the findings of the experiment.
Related Idioms
- Write out of: To remove a character from a story or series by the manner of writing.
- The actor left the show, so the writers had to write his character out of the script. (Note: This is a distinct phrasal verb, "write out of," meaning to remove by narrative means.)
Verb
- make out and issue
- write out a check
- cut a ticket
- Please make the check out to me
- put into writing; write in complete form
- write out a contract