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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Written as for a film or play or broadcast
Synonyms:
scripted; written
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
Set down in writing in any of various ways
Example:
written evidence
Classified under:
Similar:
backhand; left-slanting ((of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward)
cursive (having successive letter joined together)
engrossed (written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document)
graphic; graphical; in writing (written or drawn or engraved)
handwritten (written by hand)
holographic (written wholly in the handwriting of the signer)
inscribed (written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface)
longhand (having words written out in full by hand)
scrivened (copied in handwriting)
shorthand (written in abbreviated or symbolic form)
Also:
scripted; written (written as for a film or play or broadcast)
Antonym:
spoken (uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Systematically collected and written down
Example:
written laws
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
codified; statute (enacted by a legislative body)
Antonym:
unwritten (based on custom rather than documentation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb write
Context examples:
Lately, there’s been an enormous focus on your written and spoken words, so you must have been working hard at your computer getting your work ready to be shown.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
To cap the situation, "The Pot," which he looked upon as one of the best things he had written, was lost to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But this was not done so easily as it is written.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I have written this in the train.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
When he had written it, he said: ‘All right, porter, I will take this myself.’
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At two o’clock he bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had written, and locked the door of the office after me.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And why had he written a letter from himself to himself?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I must have written half-a-dozen answers at least.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.
(File, NCI Thesaurus)
Why, it is written in the French tongue, said Alleyne, and in a right clerkly hand.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
