write up

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: rīt′ ŭp′ (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪ̯t ˌʌp/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌɪ̯t ˌʌp/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌi̯t ˌʌp/, /ˈɹəi̯t ˌʌp/ (Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑe̯t ˌɐp/ (India) IPA(key): /ˈɾaɪ̯ʈ ˌəp/, /ˈɾajʈ ˌəp/ Hyphenation: write up === Verb === write up (third-person singular simple present writes up, present participle writing up, simple past wrote up or (archaic) writ up, past participle written up or (archaic) writ up or (obsolete) ywriten up)(transitive) To produce by writing. Synonyms: write down, record, transcribe The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him. To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of. Synonym: write down Near-synonym: cite His supervisor wrote him up after their last argument. To write about positively; to praise in writing. Antonym: write down Near-synonym: talk up The paper wrote up the team's prospects. (accounting) To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset. Antonyms: write down, devalue (philately) To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write,‎ up. ==== Usage notes ==== In sense 1, this term is generally used only when the thing being written has been previously set or arranged to some extent. Thus, one can write up a report of events, minutes of a meeting, or a contract previously agreed upon orally. As with many pairs of phrasal verbs that contain antonymic particles (such as up and down), write up and write down can actually function as synonyms for some senses. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “write up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.