rewriter

English

Etymology

From rewrite +‎ -er.

Noun

rewriter (plural rewriters)

1. One who, or that which, rewrites.
   • 1983 November 20, Haskell Nordon, “ON JAMES MICHENER'S 'POLAND'”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times.

   • 2009 April 16, Charles McGrath, “Sex and Crime, the Updates: Gay Talese Is Back on the Beat”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities.

2. (computing) Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

rewriter m (plural rewriters)

1. (computing) rewriter

Verb

rewriter

1. (computing) to rewrite

Conjugation

Conjugation of rewriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rewriter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rewritant /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rewrité /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/	rewrites /ʁɛw.ʁit/	rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/	rewritons /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɔ̃/	rewritez /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/	rewritent /ʁɛw.ʁit/
	imperfect	rewritais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/	rewritais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/	rewritait /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/	rewritions /ʁɛw.ʁi.tjɔ̃/	rewritiez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tje/	rewritaient /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/
	past historic2	rewritai /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/	rewritas /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta/	rewrita /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta/	rewritâmes /ʁɛw.ʁi.tam/	rewritâtes /ʁɛw.ʁi.tat/	rewritèrent /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛʁ/
	future	rewriterai /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁe/	rewriteras /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁa/	rewritera /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁa/	rewriterons /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/	rewriterez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁe/	rewriteront /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rewriterais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/	rewriterais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/	rewriterait /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/	rewriterions /ʁɛw.ʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rewriteriez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tə.ʁje/	rewriteraient /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/	rewrites /ʁɛw.ʁit/	rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/	rewritions /ʁɛw.ʁi.tjɔ̃/	rewritiez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tje/	rewritent /ʁɛw.ʁit/
	imperfect2	rewritasse /ʁɛw.ʁi.tas/	rewritasses /ʁɛw.ʁi.tas/	rewritât /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta/	rewritassions /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/	rewritassiez /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta.sje/	rewritassent /ʁɛw.ʁi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/	—	rewritons /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɔ̃/	rewritez /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “rewriter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.