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writing is a noun meaning "the act of creating written works". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the act of creating written works
“writing was a form of therapy for him”
“it was a matter of disputed authorship”
the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect)
“the writing in her novels is excellent”
“that editorial was a fine piece of writing”
(usually plural) the collected work of an author
“the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings”
plural
letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language
“he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show”
“the doctor's writing was illegible”
the activity of putting something in written form
“she did the thinking while he did the writing”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for writing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.