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IN WRITING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Written or drawn or engraved
Example:
graphic symbols
Synonyms:
graphic; graphical; in writing
Classified under:
Similar:
written (set down in writing in any of various ways)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As written or printed
Example:
this is exactly what the composer had set down on paper
Synonyms:
in writing; on paper
Classified under:
Context examples:
He has a kind of talent for drawing briefs, and stating a case in writing, plainly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You will come round with us to the station, Mr. Scott Eccles, and let us have your statement in writing.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His work consisted in writing all the morning to the professor’s dictation, and he usually spent the evening in hunting up references and passages which bore upon the next day’s work.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Had you seen her this morning, Mary, he continued, attending with such ineffable sweetness and patience to all the demands of her aunt's stupidity, working with her, and for her, her colour beautifully heightened as she leant over the work, then returning to her seat to finish a note which she was previously engaged in writing for that stupid woman's service, and all this with such unpretending gentleness, so much as if it were a matter of course that she was not to have a moment at her own command, her hair arranged as neatly as it always is, and one little curl falling forward as she wrote, which she now and then shook back, and in the midst of all this, still speaking at intervals to me, or listening, and as if she liked to listen, to what I said.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Knightley was then obliged to say that he should be glad to see him; and Mr. Weston engaged to lose no time in writing, and spare no arguments to induce him to come.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Meg went daily to her pupils, and sewed, or thought she did, at home, but much time was spent in writing long letters to her mother, or reading the Washington dispatches over and over.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"But why do you persist in writing such things when you know they won't sell?" she went on inexorably.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You can always opt to take a course in writing, editing, or any of the other communication arts—it would be a good idea that would pay you dividends.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
When my evenings were unoccupied by the pursuit for which I had qualified myself with so much pains, and I was engaged in writing at home, she would sit quietly near me, however late the hour, and be so mute, that I would often think she had dropped asleep.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
