{
  "id": "write.communication",
  "term": "write",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make marks on a surface that are language",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "marks.visual",
      "language.communication",
      "make.verb",
      "surface.exterior"
    ],
    "interaction": "marks are made on a surface that are language",
    "novel_properties": [
      "symbolic inscription",
      "enduring linguistic form",
      "intentional meaning transmission"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Rosetta Stone was inscribed with the same text in Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphs at Sais in 196 BCE.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Farmers in ancient Uruk recorded grain shipments on clay tablets using cuneiform script around 3200 BCE.",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "act.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "contract.legal",
    "document.record",
    "journal.record",
    "notes.written",
    "summary.text"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "write",
    "writes",
    "writing",
    "written",
    "wrote"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts make.verb and surface.exterior which are necessary for the act of writing as defined."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-write.communication"
}