English > authorship: 2 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | The act of creating written works. |
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| Example | "it was a matter of disputed authorship" |
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| Synonyms | writing, composition, penning |
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| Category of | annotate, footnote | add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments |
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| author | Be the author of |
| co-author | Be a co-author on (a book, a paper / paper / paper) |
| dash off, scratch off, knock off, toss off, fling off | Write quickly |
| draft, outline | draw up an outline or sketch for something |
| dramatize, dramatise, adopt | put into dramatic form |
| ghost, ghostwrite | Write for someone else |
| paragraph | Write paragraphs |
| profile | write about |
| reference, cite | refer to |
| rewrite | rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose |
| script | Write a script for |
| write, compose, pen, indite | produce a literary work |
| write copy | Write for commercial publications |
| write on, write of, write about | Write about a particular topic |
| write out, write up | put into writing |
| Narrower | adoxography | Fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects |
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| drafting | Writing a first version to be filled out and polished later |
| dramatization, dramatisation | conversion into dramatic form |
| fabrication, fictionalization, fictionalisation | writing in a fictional form |
| historiography | The writing of history |
| lexicography | The act of writing dictionaries |
| metrification | Writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition) |
| novelization, novelisation | converting something into the form of a novel |
| redaction | The act of putting something in writing |
| versification | The art or practice of writing verse |
| Broader | verbal creation | creating something by the use of speech and language |
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| Spanish | composición, escritura |
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| Catalan | composició, escriptura |
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| Nouns | author | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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