Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise.
- intransitive verb To put (material submitted to a newspaper or magazine) in a form suitable for publishing.
- intransitive verb Computers To save (a usually altered file) over its most recent version in the same storage location.
- intransitive verb To make revisions in written material.
- noun The act or an instance of rewriting.
- noun Something rewritten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To write a second time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To write again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of writing again or anew.
- noun Something that has been written again.
- verb To
write again ,differently (tomodify ). - verb To
write again (without changing).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb write differently; alter the writing of
- noun something that has been written again
- verb rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the rewrite is done, and the ms is off to copy edit.
The Reluctant Mage rewrite ... karenmiller 2010
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Yeah, the rewrite is going to be tough, but I ultimately think it will be a much better book.
#165 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics – Guest Starring ‘The Tragic Penis-Man’…NSFW? « 1979 Semi-Finalist… 2008
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So, yeah, strictly speaking, by the letter of the law, there's nothing at all wrong with a cut-up and fold-in rewrite of Revelation in which God is the bad guy, is there?
Get Yer Free Blasphemy Here Hal Duncan 2008
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So, yeah, strictly speaking, by the letter of the law, there's nothing at all wrong with a cut-up and fold-in rewrite of Revelation in which God is the bad guy, is there?
Archive 2008-12-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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It's fun writing, but I have to say, once you have all the pieces, the final rewrite is in the editing room and to take everything and switch it around and give it a whole new meaning and shape it and take all that hard work and strip out certain pieces and rearrange them, it's just fascinating to me.
Follow-Up Interview: Get Smart's Director Pete Segal « FirstShowing.net 2008
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That rewrite is something a good people's ombudsman would cover.
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Calculation comes in rewrite and editing; creation comes in losing oneself in fearless territories.
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Calculation comes in rewrite and editing; creation comes in losing oneself in fealess territories.
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The rewrite is still not done -- thankfully, I have folks holding me to high standards -- but it's very close.
I've noticed that... raecarson 2007
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That rewrite is something a good people's ombudsman would cover.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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