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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rewrite
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rewrite history (=change what we believe are the facts about the past)
▪ They're trying to rewrite history to exaggerate their role in the war.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
history
▪ M Lionel Jospin, former Minister of Education, said that it was an astonishing rewrite of history.
▪ Hugo, this rewrites human history!
▪ These fossils, for example, don't rewrite our history but they do illustrate it usefully.
▪ And not betraying the past, either, not rewriting our private history to suit herself.
▪ James's book rather rewrites history when he says that he wanted Niki to think he'd been psyched out.
▪ It is an error to rewrite history to pretend that they did.
law
▪ It has had to rewrite aspects of law and order in order to gain support for its economic policies.
▪ Also in its wake will follow countless problems in rewriting the law related to marriage and divorce.
▪ None the less, Nutt said, the attention paid this case may be enough to finally force a rewriting of the law.
▪ There is no such thing as a minor rewriting of physical laws.
rule
▪ The rewrite rule is an effective method of representing the rules of a generative grammar.
▪ Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, failed in their effort to rewrite the rules for legal immigration.
▪ A highly crafted, hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest.
▪ But Congress may rewrite those rules in coming months.
▪ Yet what it did not have was the ability to rewrite the rules of economics.
■ VERB
write
▪ I enjoyed the writing and the rewriting.
▪ Next, create a realistic schedule, including time for researching, writing, and rewriting the material.
▪ He writes and rewrites in long-hand, and endlessly checks for the smallest detail.
▪ At times, you can leisurely assemble your document, writing and rewriting it one day and showing it the next.
▪ I was nervous but determined, and came home to write and rewrite the article a dozen times.
▪ They tried writing and rewriting, each time coming up with dull and wordy expressions.
▪ Ripped through that document in record time, listing, writing, rewriting, and, yes, even showing your message.
▪ My letter was not the sort of letter you spent months writing and rewriting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Perhaps you ought to rewrite the first paragraph to make it a little clearer.
▪ Usually Woodward would do a first draft, then Bernstein would rewrite it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, the rewriting task will require changing tenses.
▪ Had Fernand Braudel lived to see this book republished, he would surely have wanted to rewrite it.
▪ I went to my house in Madrid with Nicolas Roeg, the lighting cameraman, and we worked on rewriting the script.
▪ Sometimes, without thinking, I almost pick up the pen and start rewriting our campaign literature.
▪ They decided to rewrite several accounting policies at Iberian.
▪ They rescued me from my predicament, and saved me the trouble of rewriting the entire chapter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rewrite

Rewrite \Re*write"\, v. t. To write again.
--Young.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rewrite

"to write again," 1560s, from re- "back, again" + write (v.). Related: Rewrote; rewritten; rewriting. Journalistic rewrite man is recorded from 1901. As a noun from 1926.

Wiktionary
rewrite

n. 1 The act of writing again or anew. 2 Something that has been written again. vb. 1 To write again, differently (to modify). 2 To write again (without changing).

WordNet
rewrite
  1. n. something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better" [syn: revision, rescript]

  2. [also: rewrote, rewritten]

rewrite
  1. v. write differently; alter the writing of; "The student rewrote his thesis"

  2. rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose; "re-write a play for use in schools"

  3. [also: rewrote, rewritten]

Wikipedia
Rewrite (programming)

A rewrite in computer programming is the act or result of re-implementing a large portion of existing functionality without re-use of its source code or writing inscription. When the rewrite is not using existing code at all, it is common to speak of a rewrite from scratch. When instead only parts are re-engineered, which have otherwise become complicated to handle or extend, then it is more precise to speak of code refactoring.

Rewrite (song)

is a song by Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. It was released as the third single of their second full-length studio album, Sol-fa, on August 4, 2004.

Rewrite

Rewrite and rewriting may refer to:

  • Rewriting, the act of applying a rewrite formula to a series of suitable expressions in mathematics, computer science, and logic, such as:
    • Graph rewriting
    • Sender Rewriting Scheme
    • String rewriting
    • URL rewriting
  • Rewrite (programming), the act or result of writing new source code to replace an existing computer program
  • Rewrite man, a journalist who works in the office, taking information reported by others and crafting it into stories
  • "Rewrite" (song), a song by Asian Kung-Fu Generation
  • Rewrite (visual novel), a 2011 Japanese visual novel by Key
  • The Rewrite, a 2014 film
Rewrite (visual novel)

is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key, a brand of VisualArt's. It was released on June 24, 2011 for Windows PCs and is rated for all ages. Rewrite is Key's ninth game, along with other titles such as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. Key released a fan disc expanding on the game's story titled Rewrite Harvest festa! on July 27, 2012 for Windows. Rewrite was ported to the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3. The story follows the life of Kotarou Tennouji, a high school student with superhuman abilities who investigates supernatural mysteries with five girls from his school in the fictional city of Kazamatsuri. This ultimately leads him into the middle of a conflict between familiar summoners and superhumans with the fate of the world at stake.

The gameplay in Rewrite follows an interactive branching plot line with multiple scenarios, and focuses on the player character gaining the favor of the six female main characters. There are additional minigames and quests added into the gameplay, which are necessary to complete the game. The game ranked as the best-selling PC game sold in Japan for the time of its release, and charted in the national top 50 twice more afterwards. There have been four manga adaptations based on Rewrite published by ASCII Media Works and Ichijinsha. Comic anthologies, light novels and an art book were also published, as were several music albums. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by 8-Bit and directed by Tensho, premiered in July 2016.

Usage examples of "rewrite".

It had not taken long for Aum to rewrite his data appendix, and then for the Armadans to point out errors and miscalculations, holes in his research.

Therefore, we must add to the silent multiple permutations of the authorial selves one more: Kundera as self-inscribed reader who rewrites as he rereads, sending us back to the initial query.

Vafa, and other physicists have made use of these ideas to suggest a rewriting of the laws of cosmology in which both the big bang and the possible big crunch do not involve a zero-size universe, but rather one that is Planck-length in all dimensions.

The other slave boys did their own damage to the spectacle of Poritrin, as if by defacing the artwork they could rewrite history.

To deny that she had frequently rewritten her own biography, keeping one step ahead of security checks and other inquiries, would be foolish.

It makes me think that one day all past culture will be completely rewritten and completely forgotten behind the rewrite.

Slagheads with a stream of one-liners that are mostly rewritten Polish jokes.

He had put the original format he had written for the show, in which the desperate folks of Deathship Earth put a comedian into a time machine, into first person as told by Ralf and pumped it full of about two hundred pages of gory description of dystopian nightmare culled and rewritten from CHAOS TIME, the show bible, and assorted short stories and novelettes.

The record was rewritten into natural-seeming stone and fossil-bed, was dissipated, underwent a sea change.

So far it was Ellie and Diego, strutting and declaiming, while Doc and Michael shared a crumpled and much rewritten script.

Mack continued, pretending to sort through the cobwebs of his mind for the correct point of departure, not only fully aware of exactly where he had left off but of the precise order and nuance of each word he was about to utter - written, rewritten, rehearsed, and performed for hours on end each night for the past month before the cracked mirror in his cheap roach-ridden flat on West 103rd Street.

Directorate operatives get reassigned, uprooted, their biographies rewritten, networks detached and reassembled.

Jo change it to Vakeel would be like rewriting history, suggested his new wife.

I often droop over my spiritless, inactive hands, my mind utterly devoid of writeable thoughts, and when I go back to a page I wrote a few days ago, my mind is full of childish terror and rage, it so obviously must be rewritten.

The occupants go and rewrite the code of that cell to reproduce more bacteriophages and the cycle continues.