write down
See also: writedown and write-down
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]write down (third-person singular simple present writes down, present participle writing down, simple past wrote down, past participle written down)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, down.
- I can't write down in the basement; it's cold there and my fingers cramp and get stiff.
- (transitive) To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.
- Synonyms: write up, record, transcribe, document, log, inscripturate
- (ambitransitive) To write (something) in a simple or condescending style.
- Coordinate terms: dumb down, talk down, talk down to
- 2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group[1]:
- Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!
- (transitive, accounting) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.
- (transitive) To condemn in writing; to document the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
- 1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
- By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in his rogues' gallery entitled "Facts, Failures and Frauds"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has been written down as a common swindler.
Usage notes
[edit]- As with many pairs of phrasal verbs that contain antonymic particles (such as up and down), write down and write up can nonetheless function as synonyms for some senses.
Derived terms
[edit]- write-down (noun)
- writedown (noun)
Translations
[edit]to set something down in writing
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to make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset
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