writes

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of write.

   The journalist writes for a national newspaper.

   Whoever writes the report must sign the final page.

   Note

   Every construction the verb allows carries over to this form. It can stand alone (she writes for a living), take an object (he writes novels; she writes her editor), or take two, a person and a fact (he writes her that he is coming). The same spelling is also the plural noun for data operations, so a word like the disk writes needs its context to tell verb from noun.

   She writes her sister every Sunday.

   He writes them that the train is late.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of write.

   The disk completed thousands of writes per second under load.

   Batching the writes reduced the strain on the storage system.

   Note

   A plural most at home in computing, where each write is one act of storing data in memory or on a disk. Because these operations happen one at a time, they can be counted, batched, queued or measured per second. The noun also has an older sense, the act or style of writing. Keep it apart from the verb form by its position: a count noun takes articles and numbers, as in thousands of writes.

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