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
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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."
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Inscribe as a verb (geometry):
To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
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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."
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Write as a verb (transitive):
To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
Examples:
"My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald."
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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."
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Write as a verb (transitive):
To show (information, etc) in written form.
Examples:
"The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus."
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Write as a verb (intransitive):
To be an author.
Examples:
"I write for a living."
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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."
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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."
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Write as a verb:
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
Examples:
"truth written on the heart"
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Write as a verb:
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
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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?"