Send vs. Write — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Send and Write
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Send
To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination
Send goods by plane.
Write
Mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement
Alice wrote down the address
He wrote his name on the paper
He wrote very neatly in blue ink
Send
To dispatch, as by a communications medium
Send a message by radio.
Write
Compose, write, and send (a letter) to someone
I wrote him a short letter
Eleanor wrote to her sister Laura in Paris
I wrote a letter to Alison
He wrote almost every day
Send
To direct to go on a mission
Sent troops into the Middle East.
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Write
Compose (a text or work) for written or printed reproduction or publication; put into literary form and set down in writing
She wrote a bestselling novel
He wrote under a pseudonym
I didn't know you wrote poetry
He had written about the beauty of Andalusia
Send
To require or enable to go
Sent her children to college.
Write
Enter (data) into a specified storage medium or location in store
Files can be read and written directly into the file system
Send
To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer
Sent the student to the reference section of the library.
Write
Underwrite (an insurance policy).
Send
To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue
A stove that sends forth great warmth.
Write
To form (letters, words, or symbols) on a surface such as paper with an instrument such as a pen.
Send
To utter or otherwise emit (sound)
Sent forth a cry of pain.
Write
To form (letters or words) in cursive style, especially in contrast to printing by hand.
Send
To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive
The batter sent the ball to left field. The slap on my back sent me staggering.
Write
To spell
How do you write your name?.
Send
To cause to take place or occur
We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.
Write
To fill (an amount of space) with words or information
Wrote five pages in an hour.
Send
To put or drive into a given state or condition
Horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
Write
To put written information in the blank spaces of (a check, form, or similar document).
Send
(Slang) To transport with delight; carry away
That music really sends me.
Write
To produce or compose (text) in a recorded form that can be read
Write a poem.
Write a letter.
Send
To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message
Let's send out for hamburgers.
Write
To express in writing; set down
Write one's thoughts.
Send
To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail
Send away for a new catalogue.
Write
To communicate by writing, especially by written letter
She wrote that she was planning to visit.
Send
To transmit a message or messages
The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.
Write
To communicate with (someone) by writing, especially by letter
Wrote me to tell me she had moved again.
Send
Variant of scend.
Write
To compose (a musical work).
Send
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
She sends me a letter every month.
Write
To underwrite, as an insurance policy.
Send
To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
Write
To compose in legal form; draft
Write a will.
Send
(transitive) To bring to a certain condition.
Write
To indicate; mark
"Utter dejection was written on every face" (Winston S. Churchill).
Send
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
Write
To ordain or prophesy
It was written that the empire would fall.
Send
(transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
Write
(Computers) To transfer or copy (information) from memory to a storage device or output device.
Send
To pitch.
Write
To trace or form letters, words, or symbols on paper or another surface
People who cannot read or write.
Send
To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
Write
To produce written material, such as articles or books
She wrote for most of her adult life.
Send
To care.
Write
To compose a letter, email, or other written communication
Please write while you are away.
Send
(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
Write
(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
The pupil wrote his name on the paper.
Your son has been writing on the wall.
Send
An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
Write
(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.
Send
(nautical) scend
Write
(transitive) To send written information to.
(UK) Please write to me when you get there.
(US) Please write me when you get there.
Send
(Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
Write
(transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.
Send
A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
Write
To convey a fact to someone via writing.
Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.
Send
(climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
Write
(intransitive) To be an author.
I write for a living.
Send
To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.
Write
To record data mechanically or electronically.
The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
Send
To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.
Write
To fill in, to complete using words.
I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.
Send
To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
Write
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
Truth written on the heart
Send
To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; - sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
God send your mission may bring back peace.
Write
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
Send
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
Write
(finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).
Send
To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Write
To paint a religious icon.
Send
The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
Write
The act or style of writing.
Send
Cause to go somewhere;
The explosion sent the car flying in the air
She sent her children to camp
He directed all his energies into his dissertation
Write
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
Send
To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place;
He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept
Write
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.
Send
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;
Send me your latest results
I'll mail you the paper when it's written
Write
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.
Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.
I chose to write the thing I durst not speakTo her I loved.
Send
Transport commercially
Write
Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living.
Send
Assign to a station
Write
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
Send
Transfer;
The spy sent the classified information off to Russia
Write
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; - often used reflexively.
He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.
Send
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution;
After the second episode, she had to be committed
He was committed to prison
Write
To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
So it stead you, I will write,Please you command.
Send
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television;
We cannot air this X-rated song
Write
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.
Write
To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors.
Write
To compose or send letters.
He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom.
Write
Produce a literary work;
She composed a poem
He wrote four novels
Write
Communicate or express by writing;
Please write to me every week
Write
Have (one's written work) issued for publication;
How many books did Georges Simenon write?
She published 25 books during her long career
Write
Communicate (with) in writing;
Write her soon, please!
Write
Communicate by letter;
He wrote that he would be coming soon
Write
Write music;
Beethoven composed nine symphonies
Write
Mark or trace on a surface;
The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper
Write
Record data on a computer;
Boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk
Write
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);
He spelled the word wrong in this letter
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