Definition of writer in English:

writer

noun ˈrʌɪtəˈraɪdər

1A person who has written something or who writes in a particular way.
执笔者；撰写人，撰稿人
the writer of the letter
写信人。
Example sentencesExamples
- I found the comments by a letter writer in the December issue about the top ten eligible players not in the Hall of Fame most interesting.
- Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace.
- A number of commentators, including letter writers to this newspaper, have made the point, banging on about the general rottenness of modern life.
- That's a method you normally associate with novelists and prose writers rather than comics.
- Cavell's writing displays the rhetorical features that we've seen in novelists and prose writers alike as they perform their thoughts.
- We shared an office as thesis writers back in the days of '99.
- The case against the letter writers can be reduced to this: they no longer knew the difference between private and public.
- Earlier this year, commentators and letter writers seemed to turn up the heat.
- An ombudsman will be appointed as a final level of review to help resolve disputes between authors and letter writers in a fair manner.
- There also is usually a diverse mix of essayists and letter writers on our op-ed page.
1. 1.1 A person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or occupation.
  作家，著者
  Dickens was a prolific writer
  狄更斯是位多产作家。
  a writer of short stories
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Trust now holds regular readings of Wordsworth's works, using actors, and employs writers and artists in residence to breathe life into the poet's legacy.
  Through his British publisher, Crane met the writer Joseph Conrad, who became his close friend.
  Gurdev Singh Ropana is an acclaimed writer of short stories and novels in Punjabi.
  The play is part of the Shell Connections project which involves the UK National Theatre commissioning ten professional writers to write new work for youth theatre.
  The project paid for theatre productions and kept professional actors, writers and theatre workers employed.
  First print runs for established literary fiction writers such as Margaret Atwood tend to average 30,000 or 40,000.
  Members include a variety or writers and would vary from scribblers to novelists, poets, and writers of short stories and writers for children.
  Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry.
  Dryden is also one of the first writers of English literary criticism.
  Today, Dave is a lobster fisherman, while Maureen is both a fisher and a writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and children's literature.
  Science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have written about life on and invaders from Mars.
  When Marcus founded Irish Writing in 1946, he courted writers of short stories and poetry, rather than novelists, to fill its pages.
  Elisabeth Hurst is a writer of short stories; Jo Rittenhouse is a poet.
  Alex Ninian is a travel writer whose articles on India and other countries have appeared in numerous British and American publications.
  The short story writers I have enjoyed most recently are Etgar Keret and Jhumpa Lahiri.
  From Joburg to Jozi is a compilation of short stories by writers and journalists who live or who have lived in the city.
  This connection to both local and global urban realities has generated a range of critical responses from culture brokers and art writers.
  Also, they all work in creative fields - artists, musicians, writers, architectural photographers, cartoonists.
  And as a bonus there are a few literary/review essays on writers like Nabokov, Sebald and Evelyn Waugh.
  ‘The book is about growing old as a man,’ says short story writer, novelist and playwright Carl Nixon.
  Synonyms
  author, wordsmith, man/woman of letters, penman, creative writer
  informal scribbler, scribe, pen-pusher, hack, potboiler
2Computing
A device that writes data to a storage medium.
〔计算机〕记录器
a CD writer
Example sentencesExamples
- You could use a zip drive, a CDR / DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service.
- Like most of the DVD writers of the last 6 months, there is no headphone jack or volume control on the front of the DRW8800.
- Support for multimedia devices such as CD writers is improved but SuSE support for scanners, though improved, remains less than perfect.
- Goods seized included 1000s of illegal copies of software, music and films plus PCs, CD / DVD writers and video recorders.
3historical A scribe.
〈英，史〉文书；抄写员
1. 3.1archaic A clerk, especially in the navy or in government offices.
  〈英，古〉海军职员；政府文员

Phrases

writer's block

The condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
（使作者不能进行写作的）作者心理阻滞
the novelist recovered from a two-year bout with writer's block
Example sentencesExamples
- Father had had writer's block since writing his last novel, Jacob Wrestling.
- Some call it writer's block, others, cruelly, call it a lack of creativity.
- I've been trying for some time to help Suzy overcome a bad case of writer's block, partly by encouraging her to blog.
- From his output, you wouldn't think Stephen King suffered from writer's block.
- Sorry that this chapter took so long, but I was having serious writer's block.

writer's cramp

Pain or stiffness in the hand caused by excessive writing.
（书写过多造成的）书写痉挛
muscular disorders including tennis elbow and writer's cramp
Example sentencesExamples
- Their definition of a disease is loose, at best; the list includes everything from cancer and AIDS to constipation, colour blindness, writer's cramp and the hiccups.
- But even when mild, such spasm can be undesirable, as in writer's cramp or the analogous problems for musicians.
- I've been scribbling a lot recently, so much that writer's cramp has set in.
- A fellow joked afterwards that I should have writer's cramp what with all the books I had to sign.
- Getting writer's cramp in the midst of What Maisie Knew, Henry James hired a shorthand typist and his style changed accordingly.

Origin

Old English wrītere (see write).

Rhymes

all-nighter, biter, blighter, fighter, igniter, inciter, indicter, inviter, lighter, mitre (US miter), overnighter, reciter, righter, sighter, smiter

Definition of writer in US English:

writer

nounˈrīdərˈraɪdər

1A person who has written a particular text.
执笔者；撰写人，撰稿人
the writer of the letter
写信人。
Example sentencesExamples
- I found the comments by a letter writer in the December issue about the top ten eligible players not in the Hall of Fame most interesting.
- Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace.
- We shared an office as thesis writers back in the days of '99.
- There also is usually a diverse mix of essayists and letter writers on our op-ed page.
- Earlier this year, commentators and letter writers seemed to turn up the heat.
- Cavell's writing displays the rhetorical features that we've seen in novelists and prose writers alike as they perform their thoughts.
- That's a method you normally associate with novelists and prose writers rather than comics.
- An ombudsman will be appointed as a final level of review to help resolve disputes between authors and letter writers in a fair manner.
- The case against the letter writers can be reduced to this: they no longer knew the difference between private and public.
- A number of commentators, including letter writers to this newspaper, have made the point, banging on about the general rottenness of modern life.
1. 1.1 A person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or regular occupation.
  作家，著者
  the distinguished travel writer Freya Stark
  著名的游记作家弗蕾亚·斯塔克。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The play is part of the Shell Connections project which involves the UK National Theatre commissioning ten professional writers to write new work for youth theatre.
  Also, they all work in creative fields - artists, musicians, writers, architectural photographers, cartoonists.
  Through his British publisher, Crane met the writer Joseph Conrad, who became his close friend.
  When Marcus founded Irish Writing in 1946, he courted writers of short stories and poetry, rather than novelists, to fill its pages.
  Members include a variety or writers and would vary from scribblers to novelists, poets, and writers of short stories and writers for children.
  Elisabeth Hurst is a writer of short stories; Jo Rittenhouse is a poet.
  First print runs for established literary fiction writers such as Margaret Atwood tend to average 30,000 or 40,000.
  ‘The book is about growing old as a man,’ says short story writer, novelist and playwright Carl Nixon.
  This connection to both local and global urban realities has generated a range of critical responses from culture brokers and art writers.
  Today, Dave is a lobster fisherman, while Maureen is both a fisher and a writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and children's literature.
  Alex Ninian is a travel writer whose articles on India and other countries have appeared in numerous British and American publications.
  The short story writers I have enjoyed most recently are Etgar Keret and Jhumpa Lahiri.
  From Joburg to Jozi is a compilation of short stories by writers and journalists who live or who have lived in the city.
  The project paid for theatre productions and kept professional actors, writers and theatre workers employed.
  Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry.
  Gurdev Singh Ropana is an acclaimed writer of short stories and novels in Punjabi.
  Dryden is also one of the first writers of English literary criticism.
  Science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have written about life on and invaders from Mars.
  The Trust now holds regular readings of Wordsworth's works, using actors, and employs writers and artists in residence to breathe life into the poet's legacy.
  And as a bonus there are a few literary/review essays on writers like Nabokov, Sebald and Evelyn Waugh.
  Synonyms
  author, wordsmith, man of letters, woman of letters, penman, creative writer
2. 1.2with adjective A person who writes in a specified way.
  （用特定方式写作的）作家
  Dickens was a prolific writer
  狄更斯是位多产作家。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A prolific writer of books and scientific articles, Hammond received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard.
  He's now an accomplished writer with an excellent book of short stories under his belt and a novel on the way.
  In ‘Fiction,’ she is a lousy writer in a short story class with her cerebral palsy boyfriend.
  Mitch described the person behind Layne as an ‘accomplished but frustrated writer.’
  As befits a highly prolific writer he's uneven, but when he's good he's very good.
  A prolific writer, Terrell published articles in over thirty newspapers, magazines, and journals.
  A passionate teacher and prolific writer, she has many publications to her name, said Bara.
  In addition to his talent for creating short, exciting adolescent novels, Lubar is a fine writer of short stories for young people.
  Leach was such a skillful and prolific writer himself that I wondered why someone else would want to tell his story.
  Nora Sayre was a witty, vivacious writer with a steel backbone who set herself to being a chronicler of her - and the left's - times.
  The loneliness of the long distance writer is not an option when you have a writing partner.
  Hardy was an especially polished and prolific writer and had the greatest effect in leading this resurgence of British mathematics.
  However, the author of Trainspotting has revealed that his streetwise style owes as much to classical writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Walter Scott as to modern pop influences.
  He was one of the most prolific writers with some 175 books and 15 plays to his credit.
  I was influenced by the beat poets and the Southern writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.
  The writer, Charlie Kauffman is probably one of the most exciting writers we have available.
  Campanella, a Dominican priest, prolific writer, and imaginative thinker, fell foul of the Inquisition in the 1590s.
  She was a prolific writer with thirty-five books published to her credit.
  But Zoë was a fairly prolific writer during the years I lived with her.
  He's an infinitely finer writer than his dad ever was.
  He is also an eerily prolific writer, producing a quality article on culture and society for his weblog every weekday.
  An engineer, prolific writer and social activist with a difference, he was different things to different people.
3. 1.3 A composer of musical works.
  作曲家，作曲者
  a writer of military music
  军乐的作曲家。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the writer of musicals with the greatest mass appeal of the past half-century, he has ready access to wealth and fame.
  Oscar Hammerstein - the greatest musical writer before Sondheim - was a friend of the Sondheim family, and adopted the teenage musician as a protégé.
  Musical writers have ran out of ideas - and their producers are refusing to take risks on something that may well turn out to be a flop.
  It is now my intention to invite a few experienced musical writers willing to share their thoughts on the matter, so watch this space!
  Shenandoah has also pursued an acting career and is a writer of musical scores and soundtracks.
  I would love to see more music writers put their stuff up for us to hear.
  Christian is promptly enlisted as the writer for the musical about freedom and love that the bohemians are intent on producing.
  The words he set were produced two centuries earlier by the great and prolific William Williams, writer of more than 1,000 hymns.
4. 1.4Computing A device that writes data to a storage medium.
  〔计算机〕记录器
  Example sentencesExamples
  You could use a zip drive, a CDR / DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service.
  Support for multimedia devices such as CD writers is improved but SuSE support for scanners, though improved, remains less than perfect.
  Goods seized included 1000s of illegal copies of software, music and films plus PCs, CD / DVD writers and video recorders.
  Like most of the DVD writers of the last 6 months, there is no headphone jack or volume control on the front of the DRW8800.
5. 1.5Stock Market A broker who makes an option available for purchase or sells options.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The writers look at many options and identify opportunities to meet different financial needs.
  The writer of a naked option, be it a put or a call, would therefore not benefit from a rise in volatility since writers desire the price of the option to decline.
  The option writers on the gold floor have been writing calls on the metals markets with impunity as of late.
  A put is a commitment by the writer to sell shares at a given price sometime in the future.
  In this case, the put writer would sell a put at a strike price below the market price and collect the premium.
6. 1.6with adjective A person who has a specified kind of handwriting.
  （有特定书写方法的）书写人
  neat writers
  字写得工整的人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Writing on paper is great, and I, too, am a fast and neat writer.
  If you're a sloppy writer, try to find a way to write messily but still make it look good.
7. 1.7British historical A scribe.
  〈英，史〉文书；抄写员
8. 1.8British archaic A clerk, especially in the navy or other government offices.
  〈英，古〉海军职员；政府文员

Phrases

writer's block

The condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
（使作者不能进行写作的）作者心理阻滞
Example sentencesExamples
- Sorry that this chapter took so long, but I was having serious writer's block.
- Some call it writer's block, others, cruelly, call it a lack of creativity.
- Father had had writer's block since writing his last novel, Jacob Wrestling.
- From his output, you wouldn't think Stephen King suffered from writer's block.
- I've been trying for some time to help Suzy overcome a bad case of writer's block, partly by encouraging her to blog.

writer's cramp

Pain or stiffness in the hand caused by excessive writing.
（书写过多造成的）书写痉挛
Example sentencesExamples
- Getting writer's cramp in the midst of What Maisie Knew, Henry James hired a shorthand typist and his style changed accordingly.
- But even when mild, such spasm can be undesirable, as in writer's cramp or the analogous problems for musicians.
- I've been scribbling a lot recently, so much that writer's cramp has set in.
- A fellow joked afterwards that I should have writer's cramp what with all the books I had to sign.
- Their definition of a disease is loose, at best; the list includes everything from cancer and AIDS to constipation, colour blindness, writer's cramp and the hiccups.

Origin

Old English wrītere (see write).

单词	writer
释义	Definition of writer in English: writer noun ˈrʌɪtəˈraɪdər 1A person who has written something or who writes in a particular way. 执笔者；撰写人，撰稿人 the writer of the letter 写信人。 Example sentencesExamples I found the comments by a letter writer in the December issue about the top ten eligible players not in the Hall of Fame most interesting. Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace. A number of commentators, including letter writers to this newspaper, have made the point, banging on about the general rottenness of modern life. That's a method you normally associate with novelists and prose writers rather than comics. Cavell's writing displays the rhetorical features that we've seen in novelists and prose writers alike as they perform their thoughts. We shared an office as thesis writers back in the days of '99. The case against the letter writers can be reduced to this: they no longer knew the difference between private and public. Earlier this year, commentators and letter writers seemed to turn up the heat. An ombudsman will be appointed as a final level of review to help resolve disputes between authors and letter writers in a fair manner. There also is usually a diverse mix of essayists and letter writers on our op-ed page. 1.1 A person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or occupation. 作家，著者 Dickens was a prolific writer 狄更斯是位多产作家。 a writer of short stories Example sentencesExamples The Trust now holds regular readings of Wordsworth's works, using actors, and employs writers and artists in residence to breathe life into the poet's legacy. Through his British publisher, Crane met the writer Joseph Conrad, who became his close friend. Gurdev Singh Ropana is an acclaimed writer of short stories and novels in Punjabi. The play is part of the Shell Connections project which involves the UK National Theatre commissioning ten professional writers to write new work for youth theatre. The project paid for theatre productions and kept professional actors, writers and theatre workers employed. First print runs for established literary fiction writers such as Margaret Atwood tend to average 30,000 or 40,000. Members include a variety or writers and would vary from scribblers to novelists, poets, and writers of short stories and writers for children. Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry. Dryden is also one of the first writers of English literary criticism. Today, Dave is a lobster fisherman, while Maureen is both a fisher and a writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and children's literature. Science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have written about life on and invaders from Mars. When Marcus founded Irish Writing in 1946, he courted writers of short stories and poetry, rather than novelists, to fill its pages. Elisabeth Hurst is a writer of short stories; Jo Rittenhouse is a poet. Alex Ninian is a travel writer whose articles on India and other countries have appeared in numerous British and American publications. The short story writers I have enjoyed most recently are Etgar Keret and Jhumpa Lahiri. From Joburg to Jozi is a compilation of short stories by writers and journalists who live or who have lived in the city. This connection to both local and global urban realities has generated a range of critical responses from culture brokers and art writers. Also, they all work in creative fields - artists, musicians, writers, architectural photographers, cartoonists. And as a bonus there are a few literary/review essays on writers like Nabokov, Sebald and Evelyn Waugh. ‘The book is about growing old as a man,’ says short story writer, novelist and playwright Carl Nixon. Synonyms author, wordsmith, man/woman of letters, penman, creative writer informal scribbler, scribe, pen-pusher, hack, potboiler 2Computing A device that writes data to a storage medium. 〔计算机〕记录器 a CD writer Example sentencesExamples You could use a zip drive, a CDR / DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service. Like most of the DVD writers of the last 6 months, there is no headphone jack or volume control on the front of the DRW8800. Support for multimedia devices such as CD writers is improved but SuSE support for scanners, though improved, remains less than perfect. Goods seized included 1000s of illegal copies of software, music and films plus PCs, CD / DVD writers and video recorders. 3historical A scribe. 〈英，史〉文书；抄写员 3.1archaic A clerk, especially in the navy or in government offices. 〈英，古〉海军职员；政府文员 Phrases writer's block The condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing. （使作者不能进行写作的）作者心理阻滞 the novelist recovered from a two-year bout with writer's block Example sentencesExamples Father had had writer's block since writing his last novel, Jacob Wrestling. Some call it writer's block, others, cruelly, call it a lack of creativity. I've been trying for some time to help Suzy overcome a bad case of writer's block, partly by encouraging her to blog. From his output, you wouldn't think Stephen King suffered from writer's block. Sorry that this chapter took so long, but I was having serious writer's block. writer's cramp Pain or stiffness in the hand caused by excessive writing. （书写过多造成的）书写痉挛 muscular disorders including tennis elbow and writer's cramp Example sentencesExamples Their definition of a disease is loose, at best; the list includes everything from cancer and AIDS to constipation, colour blindness, writer's cramp and the hiccups. But even when mild, such spasm can be undesirable, as in writer's cramp or the analogous problems for musicians. I've been scribbling a lot recently, so much that writer's cramp has set in. A fellow joked afterwards that I should have writer's cramp what with all the books I had to sign. Getting writer's cramp in the midst of What Maisie Knew, Henry James hired a shorthand typist and his style changed accordingly. Origin Old English wrītere (see write). Rhymes all-nighter, biter, blighter, fighter, igniter, inciter, indicter, inviter, lighter, mitre (US miter), overnighter, reciter, righter, sighter, smiter noun.1 phr. Definition of writer in US English: writer nounˈrīdərˈraɪdər 1A person who has written a particular text. 执笔者；撰写人，撰稿人 the writer of the letter 写信人。 Example sentencesExamples I found the comments by a letter writer in the December issue about the top ten eligible players not in the Hall of Fame most interesting. Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace. We shared an office as thesis writers back in the days of '99. There also is usually a diverse mix of essayists and letter writers on our op-ed page. Earlier this year, commentators and letter writers seemed to turn up the heat. Cavell's writing displays the rhetorical features that we've seen in novelists and prose writers alike as they perform their thoughts. That's a method you normally associate with novelists and prose writers rather than comics. An ombudsman will be appointed as a final level of review to help resolve disputes between authors and letter writers in a fair manner. The case against the letter writers can be reduced to this: they no longer knew the difference between private and public. A number of commentators, including letter writers to this newspaper, have made the point, banging on about the general rottenness of modern life. 1.1 A person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or regular occupation. 作家，著者 the distinguished travel writer Freya Stark 著名的游记作家弗蕾亚·斯塔克。 Example sentencesExamples The play is part of the Shell Connections project which involves the UK National Theatre commissioning ten professional writers to write new work for youth theatre. Also, they all work in creative fields - artists, musicians, writers, architectural photographers, cartoonists. Through his British publisher, Crane met the writer Joseph Conrad, who became his close friend. When Marcus founded Irish Writing in 1946, he courted writers of short stories and poetry, rather than novelists, to fill its pages. Members include a variety or writers and would vary from scribblers to novelists, poets, and writers of short stories and writers for children. Elisabeth Hurst is a writer of short stories; Jo Rittenhouse is a poet. First print runs for established literary fiction writers such as Margaret Atwood tend to average 30,000 or 40,000. ‘The book is about growing old as a man,’ says short story writer, novelist and playwright Carl Nixon. This connection to both local and global urban realities has generated a range of critical responses from culture brokers and art writers. Today, Dave is a lobster fisherman, while Maureen is both a fisher and a writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and children's literature. Alex Ninian is a travel writer whose articles on India and other countries have appeared in numerous British and American publications. The short story writers I have enjoyed most recently are Etgar Keret and Jhumpa Lahiri. From Joburg to Jozi is a compilation of short stories by writers and journalists who live or who have lived in the city. The project paid for theatre productions and kept professional actors, writers and theatre workers employed. Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry. Gurdev Singh Ropana is an acclaimed writer of short stories and novels in Punjabi. Dryden is also one of the first writers of English literary criticism. Science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have written about life on and invaders from Mars. The Trust now holds regular readings of Wordsworth's works, using actors, and employs writers and artists in residence to breathe life into the poet's legacy. And as a bonus there are a few literary/review essays on writers like Nabokov, Sebald and Evelyn Waugh. Synonyms author, wordsmith, man of letters, woman of letters, penman, creative writer 1.2with adjective A person who writes in a specified way. （用特定方式写作的）作家 Dickens was a prolific writer 狄更斯是位多产作家。 Example sentencesExamples A prolific writer of books and scientific articles, Hammond received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard. He's now an accomplished writer with an excellent book of short stories under his belt and a novel on the way. In ‘Fiction,’ she is a lousy writer in a short story class with her cerebral palsy boyfriend. Mitch described the person behind Layne as an ‘accomplished but frustrated writer.’ As befits a highly prolific writer he's uneven, but when he's good he's very good. A prolific writer, Terrell published articles in over thirty newspapers, magazines, and journals. A passionate teacher and prolific writer, she has many publications to her name, said Bara. In addition to his talent for creating short, exciting adolescent novels, Lubar is a fine writer of short stories for young people. Leach was such a skillful and prolific writer himself that I wondered why someone else would want to tell his story. Nora Sayre was a witty, vivacious writer with a steel backbone who set herself to being a chronicler of her - and the left's - times. The loneliness of the long distance writer is not an option when you have a writing partner. Hardy was an especially polished and prolific writer and had the greatest effect in leading this resurgence of British mathematics. However, the author of Trainspotting has revealed that his streetwise style owes as much to classical writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Walter Scott as to modern pop influences. He was one of the most prolific writers with some 175 books and 15 plays to his credit. I was influenced by the beat poets and the Southern writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. The writer, Charlie Kauffman is probably one of the most exciting writers we have available. Campanella, a Dominican priest, prolific writer, and imaginative thinker, fell foul of the Inquisition in the 1590s. She was a prolific writer with thirty-five books published to her credit. But Zoë was a fairly prolific writer during the years I lived with her. He's an infinitely finer writer than his dad ever was. He is also an eerily prolific writer, producing a quality article on culture and society for his weblog every weekday. An engineer, prolific writer and social activist with a difference, he was different things to different people. 1.3 A composer of musical works. 作曲家，作曲者 a writer of military music 军乐的作曲家。 Example sentencesExamples As the writer of musicals with the greatest mass appeal of the past half-century, he has ready access to wealth and fame. Oscar Hammerstein - the greatest musical writer before Sondheim - was a friend of the Sondheim family, and adopted the teenage musician as a protégé. Musical writers have ran out of ideas - and their producers are refusing to take risks on something that may well turn out to be a flop. It is now my intention to invite a few experienced musical writers willing to share their thoughts on the matter, so watch this space! Shenandoah has also pursued an acting career and is a writer of musical scores and soundtracks. I would love to see more music writers put their stuff up for us to hear. Christian is promptly enlisted as the writer for the musical about freedom and love that the bohemians are intent on producing. The words he set were produced two centuries earlier by the great and prolific William Williams, writer of more than 1,000 hymns. 1.4Computing A device that writes data to a storage medium. 〔计算机〕记录器 Example sentencesExamples You could use a zip drive, a CDR / DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service. Support for multimedia devices such as CD writers is improved but SuSE support for scanners, though improved, remains less than perfect. Goods seized included 1000s of illegal copies of software, music and films plus PCs, CD / DVD writers and video recorders. Like most of the DVD writers of the last 6 months, there is no headphone jack or volume control on the front of the DRW8800. 1.5Stock Market A broker who makes an option available for purchase or sells options. Example sentencesExamples The writers look at many options and identify opportunities to meet different financial needs. The writer of a naked option, be it a put or a call, would therefore not benefit from a rise in volatility since writers desire the price of the option to decline. The option writers on the gold floor have been writing calls on the metals markets with impunity as of late. A put is a commitment by the writer to sell shares at a given price sometime in the future. In this case, the put writer would sell a put at a strike price below the market price and collect the premium. 1.6with adjective A person who has a specified kind of handwriting. （有特定书写方法的）书写人 neat writers 字写得工整的人。 Example sentencesExamples Writing on paper is great, and I, too, am a fast and neat writer. If you're a sloppy writer, try to find a way to write messily but still make it look good. 1.7British historical A scribe. 〈英，史〉文书；抄写员 1.8British archaic A clerk, especially in the navy or other government offices. 〈英，古〉海军职员；政府文员 Phrases writer's block The condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing. （使作者不能进行写作的）作者心理阻滞 Example sentencesExamples Sorry that this chapter took so long, but I was having serious writer's block. Some call it writer's block, others, cruelly, call it a lack of creativity. Father had had writer's block since writing his last novel, Jacob Wrestling. From his output, you wouldn't think Stephen King suffered from writer's block. I've been trying for some time to help Suzy overcome a bad case of writer's block, partly by encouraging her to blog. writer's cramp Pain or stiffness in the hand caused by excessive writing. （书写过多造成的）书写痉挛 Example sentencesExamples Getting writer's cramp in the midst of What Maisie Knew, Henry James hired a shorthand typist and his style changed accordingly. But even when mild, such spasm can be undesirable, as in writer's cramp or the analogous problems for musicians. I've been scribbling a lot recently, so much that writer's cramp has set in. A fellow joked afterwards that I should have writer's cramp what with all the books I had to sign. Their definition of a disease is loose, at best; the list includes everything from cancer and AIDS to constipation, colour blindness, writer's cramp and the hiccups. Origin Old English wrītere (see write). noun.1 phr.
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