writing

Roget-categorie 590

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#590. Writing

zelfstandig naamwoord

writing etc. v. — chirography, stelography^†, cerography^† — penmanship, craftmanship^† — quill driving — typewriting.
writing, manuscript, MS.
, literae scriptae [Lat.] — these presents.
stroke of the pen, dash of the pen — coupe de plume — line — headline — pen and ink.
letter etc. 561 — uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic — contraction — Brahmi^†, Devanagari, Nagari — script.
shorthand — stenography, brachygraphy^†, tachygraphy^† — secret writing, writing in cipher — cryptography, stenography — phonography^†, pasigraphy^†, Polygraphy^†, logography^†.
copy — transcript, rescript — rough copy, fair copy — handwriting — signature, sign manual — autograph, monograph, holograph — hand, fist.
calligraphy — good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand.
cacography^†, griffonage^†, barbouillage^† — bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand — scribble etc. v. — pattes de mouche [Fr.] — ill-formed letters — pothooks and hangers.
stationery — pen, quill, goose quill — pencil, style — paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table — blackboard — ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well — typewriter.
transcription etc. (copy) 21 — inscription etc. (record) 551 — superscription etc. (indication) 550 — graphology.
composition, authorship — cacoethes scribendi [Lat.] — graphoidea^†, graphomania^† — phrenoia^†.
writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver — stenographer, typewriter, typist — writer for the press etc. (author) 593.

werkwoord

write, pen — copy, engross — write out, write out fair — transcribe — scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch — interline — stain paper — write down etc. (record) 551 — sign etc. (attest) 467 — enface^†.
compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate — dictate — inscribe, throw on paper, dash off — manifold.
take up the pen, take pen in hand — shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

writing etc. v. — written etc. v. — in writing, in black and white — under one's hand.
uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical^†.

bijwoord

currente calamo [Sp.] — pen in hand.

uitdrukking

audacter et sincere [Lat.] — le style est l'homme meme [Fr.] — nature's noblest gift - my gray goose nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium et scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons [Lat.] [Horace]; that mighty instrument of little men" [Byron]; the pen became a clarion" [Longfellow].

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