write down

noter

Écrire une information sur du papier ou un écran pour s’en souvenir.

En anglais simple : If you do this, you put information on paper or a screen so you can remember it.

• Write down your name.
• I wrote the phone number down in my notebook.
• Have you written down everything we need?

Comment l'utiliser : write something down (Write your address down here.); write down what… (Write down what you need to buy.)

Synonymes : note down, record, jot down

Expressions courantes : write something down, write down notes, write down names

déprécier

Réduire dans les comptes d’une entreprise la valeur d’un bien qu’elle possède.

En anglais simple : If a business does this, it lowers the value of something it owns in its financial records.

• The company wrote down its assets.
• We must write this stock down because it is damaged.
• The bank has written down the value of several investments.

Comment l'utiliser : write something down to something (The company wrote the property down to half its previous value.); write something down by something (They wrote the inventory down by twenty percent.)

Synonymes : devalue

Contraires : write up

Expressions courantes : write down assets, write something down, write down inventory

écrire en bas

Écrire en se trouvant dans un endroit situé plus bas, comme une cave.

En anglais simple : If you do this, you form words while you are in a lower place, such as a basement.

• I usually write down here.
• She wrote down in the cellar because it was quiet.
• Can you write down there with so little light?

Expressions courantes : write down here, write down below, write down there

écrire de façon condescendante

Écrire trop simplement, comme si les lecteurs étaient incapables de comprendre des idées plus difficiles.

En anglais simple : If you do this, you write too simply, as though your readers cannot understand more difficult ideas.

• Do not write down to children.
• The author wrote the story down for a younger audience.
• Readers can tell when you are writing down to them.

Comment l'utiliser : write down to someone (Good children’s authors do not write down to their readers.)

Synonymes : write simplistically

Expressions courantes : write down to someone, write down a story

condamner par écrit

Critiquer quelqu’un en décrivant par écrit ses défauts ou ses mauvaises actions.

En anglais simple : If you do this, you describe someone’s faults or bad actions in writing to criticize them.

• The critic wrote him down as a fraud.
• Opponents wrote down the minister’s failings in a bitter pamphlet.
• She used her column to write down those responsible.

Comment l'utiliser : write someone down (The pamphlet tried to write the governor down as dishonest.)

Synonymes : denounce, condemn

Expressions courantes : write someone down, write down an opponent