writer : Idioms & Phrases

• noun someone who writes screenplays
  screenwriter.
  

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• noun a writer of folktales
  

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• noun a mediocre and disdained writer
  literary hack; hack.
  

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• a hack; one who writes for hire. "A vulgar hack writer."

Webster 1913

• an insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff. Obs. Swift.

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• noun someone who communicates by means of letters
  correspondent.
  

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• . (a) One who writes letters. (b) A machine for copying letters . (c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of letters.

Webster 1913

News"-writ`er noun

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1. One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.

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• noun a writer paid by the area of the copy
  

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• noun a journalist who writes about sports
  sportswriter.
  

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Sto"ry-writ`er noun

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1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines.
2. An historian; a chronicler. Obs. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.

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• (Eng. Law), an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. Wharton (Law. Dict.)

Webster 1913

• . See under Signet.

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• noun an inability to write; the words wouldn't come"
  
  • he had writer's block

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• noun muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil
  graphospasm.
  

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• (Med.), a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing, violin playing, telegraphing, etc. Called also scrivener's palsy.

Webster 1913

• noun the name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work
  author's name.
  

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