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HANDWRITE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write by hand

Example:

You should handwrite the note to your guests

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "handwrite" is one way to...):

write (communicate or express by writing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

handwriting (the activity of writing by hand)

handwriting (something written by hand)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I have a document here in his handwriting; it is between ourselves, for I scarce know what to do about it; it is an ugly business at the best.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

One day, Traddles (who had just come home through the drizzling sleet from Court) took a paper out of his desk, and asked me what I thought of that handwriting?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He got up, held it close to my eyes: and I read, traced in Indian ink, in my own handwriting, the words "JANE EYRE"—the work doubtless of some moment of abstraction.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The perpetual commendations of the lady, either on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the identification of visual or audio patterns by computers.For the computer to recognize the patterns, the patterns must be converted into digital signals and compared with patterns already stored in memory.Some uses of this technology are in character recognition, voice recognition, handwriting recognition, and robotics.

(Pattern Recognition, NCI Thesaurus)

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Don’t you see, my young friend, that they were very anxious to obtain a specimen of your handwriting, and had no other way of doing it?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The varieties of handwriting were farther talked of, and the usual observations made.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He reread the letter adoringly, dwelling over her handwriting, loving each stroke of her pen, and in the end kissing her signature.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)