Roget's Thesaurus

#590. Writing

Nouns

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.

Verbs

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.

Adjectives

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

Adverbs

currente calamo [Sp.]; pen in hand.

Phrases

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