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Definition of unwritten in English: unwrittenadjectiveʌnˈrɪt(ə)nˌənˈrɪtn 1Not recorded in writing. 未写下的；无文字记录的 documenting unwritten languages 记录无文字语言。 Example sentencesExamples - Because the language was unique and unwritten, it would prove impossible for the Japanese to decipher.
- The enormity of Cash's legacy can be assessed by the fact that though the Man in Black wrote two autobiographies, much of his story was left unwritten.
- Two thirds of the world's languages are still unwritten, and there are only several hundred different writing systems.
- A tradition of oral literature has been crucial to the survival of the Hopi Way because the language has remained unwritten until recent years.
- As you have guessed, I am passionate about New Zealand's largely unwritten political history.
- Are you saying that it's history and therefore it's an unwritten history, we need to know all the truth and therefore that justifies this personal exposure?
- But while the Latin American writer has used magic realism to give epic form to the unwritten history of his nation, his ambitions are more personal and private.
- Unlike its American and Jamaican counterpart, the history of Black Britain's musical heritage has so far gone unwritten.
- As a society within a society, the Gitanos of Spain have maintained their art as a connection to an unwritten past and a way to share it with others.
- He thought of Walt Whitman, of course, but he found this power in short supply in American art; he found its history largely unwritten.
- Cajun French, for the most part, is a spoken, unwritten language filled with colloquialisms and slang.
- Diné had the advantages of being naturally complex and virtually unwritten: the first, incomplete Diné alphabet was developed in the early 20th century.
- With the fragmentation of extended Indian families and tribes, the unwritten knowledge of elders that was once a counterweight to Anglo hegemony is in danger of being lost.
- Correspondingly, plants have been used through unwritten and written history as a source of medicines, fragrances, spices, and colourants.
- For Massie, history is full of unlit corners and unwritten characters.
- The world of the street child and juvenile pickpocket was organized, in part, around an unwritten, oral culture.
- They are based on loyalty to friends, distrust of authority, a history that is largely unwritten and a rigorous sense of fair play.
- The book has been welcomed in the local media as a contribution to the largely unwritten history of Dubai's stunning transformation over the last three decades into a hip city of skyscrapers, commerce and tourism.
- That seems logical but there is a catch: the social code in the officers' mess of a regiment such as the Grenadier Guards is unwritten and so nebulous that it takes an insider to make any sense of it.
- That poses no problem for Catholic faith, since it freely acknowledges that revelation is handed on to us in both written and unwritten form.
2(especially of a law) resting originally on custom or judicial decision rather than on statute. （尤指法律）未成文的 an unwritten constitution 未成文宪法。 Example sentencesExamples - We will come to that in the later arguments but this is all in the realm of the unwritten law.
- Indeed, this rationale would render the unwritten doctrine of Marbury v. Madison itself invalid in cases involving the 21st Amendment.
- Common Law was unwritten and represented the custom of the people.
- The distraught father killed him, and used the unwritten law as his defense.
- The current, unwritten, interpretation is that to qualify, individuals should have investments in shares or property amounting to a minimum of 3,500 leva.
- They only saw their duty to resist oppression, to protect the weak, to vindicate the profound but unwritten Law of Nations, to testify to truth and justice and mercy among men.
- 2.1 (of a convention) understood and generally accepted, although not formally established.
惯例的，因袭的 the unwritten rules of social life 社会生活中的不成文规定。 Example sentencesExamples - Although ‘liaisons’ are not officially designated, the role is part of an honored, unwritten pact going back more than 100 years.
- Although they're mostly unwritten, there is a canon of gym etiquette that all gym-goers should recognize.
- Most members of the media follow a code - written or unwritten - that the method and location of suicide is not described, displayed or photographed.
- There are unwritten conventions governing professional bar conduct.
- The Navajo's unwritten credo of adaptation is reflected in their weaving, from the use of wool obtained from sheep introduced by the Spanish, to the current use of both hand-spun and commercial wools.
- The unwritten societal ‘obligation’ that women must stay at home and men must come first in education, for instance, has left women with a lack of knowledge and thus deprived them of their rights.
- Is there an unwritten media rule to promote the dumbed-down and pretentious culture of ‘real life’ TV shows at the expense of our indigenous culture?
- One of the unwritten requirements for referees is comic timing.
- The unwritten but universally accepted industry standard for turnover time is 15 minutes.
- Tough times take a tough hombre who can roll with the punches and fight back when necessary, and isn't afraid of violating some unwritten code by informing us of his opponent's flaws.
- It was founded in order to fight the unwritten law on the job market that discriminates against older employees.
- Is there some unwritten requirement that when you go to a gig, if you don't have a T-shirt of a band performing, you have to wear another one with some other band in the ‘scene’ on it?
- Citi's actions weren't illegal, but broke an unwritten understanding not to whipsaw markets or take advantage of the thin summer trading.
- Frontline police have been telling the Herald since last year that there was an unwritten message not to target gangs and drug labs because dealing with the labs was difficult and made crime statistics look bad.
- In the unwritten code of the game, the players are to assume a certain level of risk and to take care of issues themselves without any outside help.
- Although official segregation was outlawed in the last century, in many respects it still exists in an unwritten, unspoken form.
- Club rugby in New Zealand is played at breathtaking pace, and there is an unwritten code that anyone taking cheap shots will be dealt with by the opposition, and not by the referee.
- Some researchers talk about a psychological contract that we have with our employer which includes the unspoken and unwritten expectations that employers and employees have of each other.
- Is there an unwritten code for bloggers that I am unaware of?
- It is a show about potential catastrophe and a lesson in how effortlessly any of us can slip from an unwritten code of human ethics into the self-perpetuating intoxication of brutality.
Synonyms tacit, implicit, unvoiced, silent, implied, taken for granted, accepted, recognized, understood, unrecorded traditional, customary, conventional, folk, handed down oral, verbal, spoken, vocal, word-of-mouth, by mouth, by word of mouth Latin viva voce
Definition of unwritten in US English: unwrittenadjectiveˌənˈritnˌənˈrɪtn 1Not recorded in writing. 未写下的；无文字记录的 documenting unwritten languages 记录无文字语言。 Example sentencesExamples - Cajun French, for the most part, is a spoken, unwritten language filled with colloquialisms and slang.
- Because the language was unique and unwritten, it would prove impossible for the Japanese to decipher.
- Two thirds of the world's languages are still unwritten, and there are only several hundred different writing systems.
- Correspondingly, plants have been used through unwritten and written history as a source of medicines, fragrances, spices, and colourants.
- The enormity of Cash's legacy can be assessed by the fact that though the Man in Black wrote two autobiographies, much of his story was left unwritten.
- The book has been welcomed in the local media as a contribution to the largely unwritten history of Dubai's stunning transformation over the last three decades into a hip city of skyscrapers, commerce and tourism.
- Are you saying that it's history and therefore it's an unwritten history, we need to know all the truth and therefore that justifies this personal exposure?
- That poses no problem for Catholic faith, since it freely acknowledges that revelation is handed on to us in both written and unwritten form.
- They are based on loyalty to friends, distrust of authority, a history that is largely unwritten and a rigorous sense of fair play.
- The world of the street child and juvenile pickpocket was organized, in part, around an unwritten, oral culture.
- He thought of Walt Whitman, of course, but he found this power in short supply in American art; he found its history largely unwritten.
- As a society within a society, the Gitanos of Spain have maintained their art as a connection to an unwritten past and a way to share it with others.
- But while the Latin American writer has used magic realism to give epic form to the unwritten history of his nation, his ambitions are more personal and private.
- That seems logical but there is a catch: the social code in the officers' mess of a regiment such as the Grenadier Guards is unwritten and so nebulous that it takes an insider to make any sense of it.
- With the fragmentation of extended Indian families and tribes, the unwritten knowledge of elders that was once a counterweight to Anglo hegemony is in danger of being lost.
- For Massie, history is full of unlit corners and unwritten characters.
- Diné had the advantages of being naturally complex and virtually unwritten: the first, incomplete Diné alphabet was developed in the early 20th century.
- A tradition of oral literature has been crucial to the survival of the Hopi Way because the language has remained unwritten until recent years.
- As you have guessed, I am passionate about New Zealand's largely unwritten political history.
- Unlike its American and Jamaican counterpart, the history of Black Britain's musical heritage has so far gone unwritten.
- 1.1 (especially of a law) resting originally on custom or judicial decision rather than on statute.
（尤指法律）未成文的 an unwritten constitution 未成文宪法。 Example sentencesExamples - The distraught father killed him, and used the unwritten law as his defense.
- Indeed, this rationale would render the unwritten doctrine of Marbury v. Madison itself invalid in cases involving the 21st Amendment.
- The current, unwritten, interpretation is that to qualify, individuals should have investments in shares or property amounting to a minimum of 3,500 leva.
- They only saw their duty to resist oppression, to protect the weak, to vindicate the profound but unwritten Law of Nations, to testify to truth and justice and mercy among men.
- We will come to that in the later arguments but this is all in the realm of the unwritten law.
- Common Law was unwritten and represented the custom of the people.
- 1.2 (of a convention) understood and accepted by everyone, although not formally established.
惯例的，因袭的 the unwritten rules of social life 社会生活中的不成文规定。 Example sentencesExamples - Is there an unwritten media rule to promote the dumbed-down and pretentious culture of ‘real life’ TV shows at the expense of our indigenous culture?
- Club rugby in New Zealand is played at breathtaking pace, and there is an unwritten code that anyone taking cheap shots will be dealt with by the opposition, and not by the referee.
- It is a show about potential catastrophe and a lesson in how effortlessly any of us can slip from an unwritten code of human ethics into the self-perpetuating intoxication of brutality.
- Is there an unwritten code for bloggers that I am unaware of?
- In the unwritten code of the game, the players are to assume a certain level of risk and to take care of issues themselves without any outside help.
- Some researchers talk about a psychological contract that we have with our employer which includes the unspoken and unwritten expectations that employers and employees have of each other.
- It was founded in order to fight the unwritten law on the job market that discriminates against older employees.
- The Navajo's unwritten credo of adaptation is reflected in their weaving, from the use of wool obtained from sheep introduced by the Spanish, to the current use of both hand-spun and commercial wools.
- One of the unwritten requirements for referees is comic timing.
- The unwritten societal ‘obligation’ that women must stay at home and men must come first in education, for instance, has left women with a lack of knowledge and thus deprived them of their rights.
- There are unwritten conventions governing professional bar conduct.
- Tough times take a tough hombre who can roll with the punches and fight back when necessary, and isn't afraid of violating some unwritten code by informing us of his opponent's flaws.
- Most members of the media follow a code - written or unwritten - that the method and location of suicide is not described, displayed or photographed.
- The unwritten but universally accepted industry standard for turnover time is 15 minutes.
- Citi's actions weren't illegal, but broke an unwritten understanding not to whipsaw markets or take advantage of the thin summer trading.
- Although official segregation was outlawed in the last century, in many respects it still exists in an unwritten, unspoken form.
- Is there some unwritten requirement that when you go to a gig, if you don't have a T-shirt of a band performing, you have to wear another one with some other band in the ‘scene’ on it?
- Although they're mostly unwritten, there is a canon of gym etiquette that all gym-goers should recognize.
- Although ‘liaisons’ are not officially designated, the role is part of an honored, unwritten pact going back more than 100 years.
- Frontline police have been telling the Herald since last year that there was an unwritten message not to target gangs and drug labs because dealing with the labs was difficult and made crime statistics look bad.
Synonyms tacit, implicit, unvoiced, silent, implied, taken for granted, accepted, recognized, understood, unrecorded
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