The difference between Inscribe and Write

When used as verbs, inscribe means to write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person), whereas write means to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.


Write is also noun with the meaning: the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

check bellow for the other definitions of Inscribe and Write

  1. Inscribe as a verb (transitive):

    To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.

    Examples:

    "I inscribed the book with a message for Kate."

    "I inscribed my name into the book."

  2. Inscribe as a verb (geometry):

    To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

  1. Write as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

    Examples:

    "The pupil wrote his name on the paper."

    "Your son has been writing on the wall."

  2. Write as a verb (transitive):

    To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

    Examples:

    "My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald."

  3. Write as a verb (transitive):

    To send written information to.

    Examples:

    "(UK) Please write to me when you get there."

    "(US) Please write me when you get there."

  4. Write as a verb (transitive):

    To show (information, etc) in written form.

    Examples:

    "The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus."

  5. Write as a verb (intransitive):

    To be an author.

    Examples:

    "I write for a living."

  6. Write as a verb (computing, intransitive, with {{m, to):

    }} To record data mechanically or electronically.

    Examples:

    "The computer writes to the disk faster than it [[reads]] from it."

  7. Write as a verb (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.):

    To fill in, to complete using words.

    Examples:

    "I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test."

  8. Write as a verb:

    To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

    Examples:

    "truth written on the heart"

  9. Write as a verb:

    To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

  1. Write as a noun (computing):

    The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

    Examples:

    "How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?"