What's the difference between writ and write?

Writ


Definition:

  • (obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Write.
  • (n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.
  • (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.
  • (Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To hear the former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA being depicted as a man whose job as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is "to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland" is, to say the least, ironic.
  • (2) This we can see writ large in the prime minister’s skirmishes with Philip Hammond , the only member of government visibly considering the national interest.
  • (3) Abuses thet do exist should be handled through writs of habeas corpus and malpractice suits, remedies much more available now than in the past.
  • (4) Australia needs urgent legislation which strengthens the rules around government spending once the writs are issued.” As opposition leader in 2007, Kevin Rudd railed against the Howard government’s political advertising, which he called a “cancer on democracy”.
  • (5) In a letter to Infantino accompanying a draft writ that could be lodged in the Swiss courts, lawyers call on Fifa to “acknowledge that it has acted wrongfully by awarding the World Cup 2022 to Qatar without demanding the assurance that Qatar observes fundamental human and labour rights vis-à-vis migrant construction workers whose work is related to the 2022 World Cup”.
  • (6) The prime minister's tactics failed, raising questions about how far his writ runs in the party.
  • (7) In London, the courts ruled his detention unlawful and ordered a writ of habeas corpus to be issued so he could be freed, but this was ignored by the US military authorities.
  • (8) It is a sense of his own god-like importance, as opposed to Holy Writ, that persuades him that his convictions on the moment a new life begins – "it is just my view" – should prevail over women's choices.
  • (9) The challenge faced by the incoming Asda chief executive was writ large today as Waitrose posted sales figures that showed it growing at a far faster rate than its larger rivals.
  • (10) Historically, about 7% of activity occurs each day in the week after the governor-general issues the writs.
  • (11) His job is to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland ...
  • (12) Wrapping the existing building with a grungy cocktail of corrugated metal sheeting, raw plywood and chain-link fencing, through which angular glazed structures burst open, it was his maverick manifesto writ large.
  • (13) This was writ large at the outset, when Rose fired a flame thrower without batting an eyelid while Sheeran was handed a glitter canon and very nearly fell backwards with shock at the force of the “explosion”.
  • (14) Notices were pinned to windows of the building saying that a writ of possession was obtained from the high court on 24 November giving Camelot permission to remove the “unlawful occupants” on 1 December.
  • (15) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
  • (16) We want it first because we lodged our writ long before the others."
  • (17) July 2012 Two high court judges dismiss Qatada's application for judicial review and a writ of habeas corpus.
  • (18) Does a vague law from 1789 – the so-called All Writs Act – give courts authority to make tech companies remake their products in times of duress?
  • (19) Keogh, whose campaign strategy has been to shelve his lengthy CV and focus on the fact that he, unlike Hastie, was born in Canning, but whose campaign events have been largely centred around the swing voting suburbs of Armadale and Kelmscott, was asked if he had made the trip down to Wagerup, 90km from Armadale, on the southern fringe of the electorate, since the writs were issued.
  • (20) It’s a place where American issues play out writ small, in ways that can affect governance on a grand scale.

Write


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
  • (v. t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
  • (v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
  • (v. t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
  • (v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
  • (v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
  • (v. i.) To compose or send letters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (3) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (5) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
  • (6) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (7) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
  • (8) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
  • (10) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
  • (11) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
  • (12) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (13) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
  • (14) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (15) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (16) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (17) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
  • (18) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
  • (19) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
  • (20) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.