rewrite
English
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Etymology
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[edit]- (noun)
- (verb)
Noun
[edit]rewrite (plural rewrites)
- The act of writing again or anew.
- The film script underwent a rewrite for the European market.
- 1991 August 24, Maridee BonaDea, “Pomo Afro Homos On The Road”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 7:
- After a month of writing and another month for rehearsals and re-writes, the three planned a one-night-only performance billed as a work in progress at Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint in San Francisco.
- Something that has been written again.
- (mathematics, computing) The replacement of subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]something that has been written again
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Verb
[edit]rewrite (third-person singular simple present rewrites, present participle rewriting, simple past rewrote, past participle rewritten)
- (transitive) To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.
- The editor asked me to rewrite my article for a non-technical audience.
- 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Timetable cuts as demand falls and staff are protected”, in Rail, page 7:
- If we are going to rewrite all of those diagrams and change the duties of all of those staff, it will take a few weeks.
- 2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World)[1]:
- The conservative establishment will have to ask themselves, what else they can do? […] And even though they rewrite the electoral rules in their favour, their parties still lose the election.
- (transitive) To write again (without changes).
- (mathematics, computing) To replace subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
Usage notes
[edit]- The verb "restate" has analogous senses "to state again" and "to rephrase, to state again differently".
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]write again, differently
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write again, without changing
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