Meaning of wrote in English

wrote

verb

/rəʊt/ us

/roʊt/

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wrote

/roʊt/

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(Definition of wrote from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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On the life strengths questionnaire (1993) she wrote that it was ' the friendships of various people ' that make her feel most alive.

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The ' educated class ', mainly government clerks, he wrote, were ' social snobs ', unwilling to mix with manual workers.

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He stressed that this would silence ' certain church circles ' that continuously wrote on this subject.

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He also wrote on the forecasting power of comets, again a topic where religious belief was, or could be, involved.

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As in our first study, interviewers wrote detailed narrative descriptions for each interview.

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They wrote economic histories that are in their way at least equal to anything that has been done since.

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The experimenter wrote down the order of the pictures after the child arranged them, using the first letter of each word only (to save time).

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She also wrote several articles on the subject of electronic music.

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All of the listeners wrote their judgments on a response sheet by circling one of the two options: speaks quite well 0speaks quite badly.

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The book is unashamedly intellectual history of an old-fashioned kind, a narrative of great thinkers who wrote great books filled with great ideas.

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Next, the students read four texts thematically related to these topics and wrote what the texts were about, concentrating on the most important information.

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His journal had to cease, he wrote, because keeping it was contributing to his growing blindness.

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They dyed their hair and wrote slogans on their clothes and on city walls.

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He wrote prolifically, publishing his ideas in books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers.

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Moreover, not all government correspondents wrote for official publications.

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