The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
spontaneous, ad-lib, unwritten
(adjective) said or done without having been planned or written in advance; “he made a few ad-lib remarks”
oral, unwritten
(adjective) using speech rather than writing; “an oral tradition”; “an oral agreement”
unwritten
(adjective) based on custom rather than documentation; “an unwritten law”; “rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times”- J.L.T.C.Spence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
unwritten (not comparable)
Not written.
Oral or otherwise communicated without writing.
Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.
Containing no writing; blank.
unwritten
past participle of unwrite
Source: Wiktionary
Un*writ"ten, a.
1. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.
2. Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper. Unwritten doctrines (Theol.), such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.
– Unwritten law. Etym: [Cf. L. lex non scripta.] That part of the law of England and of the United States which is not derived from express legislative enactment, or at least from any enactment now extant and in force as such. This law is now generally contained in the reports of judicial decisions. See Common law, under Common.
– Unwritten laws, such laws as have been handed down by tradition or in song. Such were the laws of the early nations of Europe.
Un*write", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + write.]
Definition: To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.