write down

anotar, apuntar

Poner información por escrito, en papel o en una pantalla, para recordarla.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: write something down (Write your address down here.); write down what… (Write down what you need to buy.)

Sinónimos: note down, record, jot down

Expresiones frecuentes: write something down, write down notes, write down names

reducir el valor contable

Reducir en las cuentas de una empresa el valor de algo que posee.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: 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.)

Sinónimos: devalue

Antónimos: write up

Expresiones frecuentes: write down assets, write something down, write down inventory

escribir abajo

Escribir mientras se está en un lugar más bajo, como un sótano.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Expresiones frecuentes: write down here, write down below, write down there

escribir de forma condescendiente

Escribir de forma demasiado simple, suponiendo que los lectores no pueden entender ideas más difíciles.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: write down to someone (Good children’s authors do not write down to their readers.)

Sinónimos: write simplistically

Expresiones frecuentes: write down to someone, write down a story

condenar por escrito

Criticar a alguien escribiendo sobre sus defectos o malas acciones.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: write someone down (The pamphlet tried to write the governor down as dishonest.)

Sinónimos: denounce, condemn

Expresiones frecuentes: write someone down, write down an opponent