HANDWRITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handwrite mean? 

• HANDWRITE (verb)
  The verb HANDWRITE has 1 sense:

1. write by hand

  Familiarity information: HANDWRITE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDWRITE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they handwrite    ... he / she / it handwrites   
Past simple: handwrited   
Past participle: handwrited   
-ing form: handwriting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write by hand

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

You should handwrite the note to your guests

Hypernyms (to "handwrite" is one way to...):

write (communicate or express by writing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

handwriting (the activity of writing by hand)

handwriting (something written by hand)

 Context examples 

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Over the past week, have people usually had trouble reading your handwriting?

(MDS-UPDRS - Handwriting, NCI Thesaurus)

When I called on Wednesday there was a letter with the West Kensington postmark upon it, and my name scrawled across the envelope in a handwriting which looked like a barbed-wire railing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now you see the point about the handwriting.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Never were such characters cut by any other human being as Edmund's commonest handwriting gave!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That he desired to conceal his handwriting.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ma'am, addressing her, do you hear what Miss Woodhouse is so obliging to say about Jane's handwriting?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is a curious thing, remarked Holmes, that a typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man’s handwriting.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is addressed in large, bold handwriting to——

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course editors were so busy that they could not afford the time and strain of reading handwriting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)