Tra từ scrawl - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
name
▪ The girl behind the beauty-counter at Lewis's had scrawled her name in pencil on the window frame.
▪ Beneath the tick and scrawl that made her name the paper was lightly wrinkled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jim scrawled his signature across the bottom of the page.
▪ Someone had scrawled a strange symbol on the wall above the bed.
▪ Three students were excluded for scrawling graffiti on a school wall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the head of each arrow, he scrawled further appreciation.
▪ Names scrawled inside the boat matched those of migrants en route to join family members in Britain who had never arrived.
▪ Romanov scrawled his signature between the two X's with the proffered gold pen.
▪ She tried to make sense of the dozens of scrawled, mostly incoherent pages Vilma sent in return.
▪ The tiny pens, scrawling in palsied traces on endless white ribbons of paper, slowly ground to a halt.
▪ The windows cowered behind a wire grill and were dotted with advertisements scrawled out on postcards.
▪ With a sinking heart I noticed that he was holding up a piece of torn cardboard with my name scrawled on it.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I couldn't read the doctor's scrawl.
▪ I kept a diary then -- pages and pages of tiny scrawl.
▪ The note was written in Gwen's childish scrawl.
▪ What does it say? I can't read your scrawl!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is covered with a hasty scrawl in Darwin's hand.
▪ Nifty handwriting recognition algorithms can translate the user's scrawls into print - and can shrink them to fit if necessary.
▪ One looked safe enough, bearing, as it did, Mr Yarrow's distinctive scrawl.
▪ The top page was covered in scrawls and doodles.
▪ The wall was covered with scrawls done with a bit of pencil lead.
▪ You end up with walls lined with sheets of paper, or blackboards covered with artistic scrawl.

scrawl

I. scrawl¹ /skrɔːl $ skrɒːl/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1600-1700; Origin : Perhaps from crawl, influenced by scrawl 'to lie carelessly' (14-19 centuries)]
to write in a careless and untidy way, so that your words are not easy to read ⇨ scribble:
　 ▪ He scrawled his name at the bottom.
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THESAURUS
▪write to use a pen or pencil to make words, letters etc :
　 ▪ Have you written a shopping list?
　 ▪ The children are learning to read and write.
▪write something down to write something on paper, in order to remember it or make a record :
　 ▪ He wrote down everything she said.
▪put to write something in a particular place, or to write particular words :
　 ▪ I’ve put the dates of the meetings in my diary.
　 ▪ At the end of the email she put ‘PS I love you’.
▪put something in writing to write something that you have agreed or promised, so that there is an official record :
　 ▪ They said they would pay me 50%, but they haven’t actually put it in writing.
▪make a note of something to write information that you might need later :
　 ▪ I’ll just make a note of your address.
　 ▪ Make a note in your diary.
▪take notes to write things while someone is speaking or while something is happening, so that you can use them later :
　 ▪ His lawyer was with him taking notes.
▪scrawl /skrɔːl $ skrɒːl/ to write something carelessly and untidily, especially in big letters – often used to show disapproval :
　 ▪ Someone had scrawled graffiti on the school wall.
　 ▪ He’d scrawled a few unhelpful comments at the bottom of my work.
▪fill something in/out to write information on a form or other official document :
　 ▪ Please fill in the application form in black ink.
　 ▪ Would you mind filling out a questionnaire?
▪sign to write your name at the end of a letter, document etc :
　 ▪ Read the contract carefully, and then sign it.
　 ▪ Don’t forget to sign your name.

II. scrawl² noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
untidy careless writing:
　 ▪ The note was written in his usual illegible scrawl.