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    PENNING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The act of creating written worksplay

    Example:

    it was a matter of disputed authorship

    Synonyms:

    authorship; composition; penning; writing

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("penning" is a kind of...):

    verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)

    Domain member category:

    script (write a script for)

    write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)

    cite; reference (refer to)

    annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

    ghost; ghostwrite (write for someone else)

    co-author (be a co-author on (a book, a paper))

    author (be the author of)

    draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)

    adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)

    write copy (write for commercial publications)

    rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)

    dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)

    paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)

    profile (write about)

    write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)

    compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "penning"):

    adoxography (fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects)

    drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)

    dramatisation; dramatization (conversion into dramatic form)

    fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)

    historiography (the writing of history)

    metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))

    novelisation; novelization (converting something into the form of a novel)

    redaction (the act of putting something in writing)

    lexicography (the act of writing dictionaries)

    versification (the art or practice of writing verse)

    Derivation:

    pen (produce a literary work)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    -ing form of the verb pen

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