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WRITE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does write on mean? 

WRITE ON (verb)
  The verb WRITE ON has 1 sense:

1. write about a particular topicplay

  Familiarity information: WRITE ON used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WRITE ON (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Write about a particular topic

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

write about; write of; write on

Context example:

Snow wrote about China

Hypernyms (to "write on" is one way to...):

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


 Context examples 


You might have a big expense you never saw coming, and it would relate to a check you need to write on behalf of a child (or a pregnancy).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He will have paper that he write on; he will have his book of cheques.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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