Document vs. Writing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Document and Writing
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Document
A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin Documentum, which denotes a "teaching" or "lesson": the verb doceō denotes "to teach".
Writing
Writing is a medium of human communication that involves the representation of a language with written symbols. Writing systems are not themselves human languages (with the debatable exception of computer languages); they are means of rendering a language into a form that can be reconstructed by other humans separated by time and/or space.
Document
A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.
Writing
The activity or skill of writing
Parents want schools to concentrate on reading, writing, and arithmetic
Document
Record (something) in written, photographic, or other form
The photographer spent years documenting the lives of miners
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Writing
The activity or occupation of composing text for publication
She made a decent living from writing
Document
A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
Writing
The act or process of producing and recording words in a form that can be read and understood
At first, most students find writing difficult.
Document
Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
Writing
The occupation or style of someone who writes, especially for publication.
Document
A writing that contains information.
Writing
Written form
Put it in writing.
Document
(Computers) A piece of work created with an application, as with a word processor.
Writing
Handwriting; penmanship
Writing that has many flourishes.
Document
(Computers) A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
Writing
Meaningful letters or characters that constitute readable matter
Erased the writing on the blackboard.
Document
Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
Writing
A written work, especially a literary composition
Collected all the author's writings.
Document
To furnish with a document or documents.
Writing
Writings (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Bible The third of the three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles. See Table at Bible.
Document
To methodically record the details of
"I had thought long and logically about ... how to document the patterns of dolphin behavior" (Diana Reiss).
Writing
(uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
Document
To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
Writing
(countable) Something written, such as a document, article or book.
Document
To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.
Writing
(uncountable) The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.
Document
An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
Writing
(countable) A work of an author.
Document
Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
Writing
(countable) The style of writing of a person.
I can't read your writing.
Document
(computing) A file that contains text.
Writing
Intended for or used in writing.
A writing table
Document
(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Writing
Inflection of write
Document
(obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
Writing
The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.
Document
To record in documents.
He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
Writing
Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters
And Pilate wrote a title . . . And the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
Document
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Writing
Handwriting; chirography.
Document
That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time.
Writing
The act of creating written works;
Writing was a form of therapy for him
It was a matter of disputed authorship
Document
An example for instruction or warning.
They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others.
Writing
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
Document
An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; - in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic.
Writing
(usually plural) the collected work of an author;
The idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings
Document
To teach; to school.
I am finely documented by my own daughter.
Writing
Letters or symbols 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
Document
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Writing
The activity of putting something in written form;
She did the thinking while he did the writing
Document
Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
Document
Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
Document
A written account of ownership or obligation
Document
(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters
Document
Record in detail;
The parents documented every step of their child's development
Document
Support or supply with references;
Can you document your claims?
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