To write means to put words, ideas, or information onto paper or a screen using letters or symbols. It can be done by hand or with a device like a computer or phone.
“Write” comes from Old English “writan,” which originally meant “to scratch” or “to carve” marks. It began with physical scratching into stone or wood and later came to mean forming letters on any surface.
Writing started as literal scratching, so your keyboard taps and pencil strokes are modern echoes of stone carving. The word reminds us that storing ideas outside the mind is one of humanity’s oldest technologies.
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