The verb write has 10 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)
1. (112) write, compose, pen, indite -- (produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels")
2. (97) write -- (communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week")
3. (33) publish, write -- (have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career")
4. (15) write, drop a line -- (communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!")
5. (10) write -- (communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon")
7. (8) write -- (mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet")
8. (4) write -- (record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk")
9. (1) spell, write -- (write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter")
10. write -- (create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else")