Lexic.us

Definition of Rewrite

1. Verb. Write differently; alter the writing of. "The student rewrote his thesis"

2. Noun. Something that has been written again. "The rewrite was much better"

3. Verb. Rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose. "Did he rewrite his major works over a short period of time?"; "Re-write a play for use in schools"

Definition of Rewrite

1. v. t. To write again.

Definition of Rewrite

1. Noun. The act of writing again or anew. ¹

2. Noun. Something that has been written again. ¹

3. Verb. To write again, differently (to modify). ¹

4. Verb. To write again (without changing). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rewrite

1. write [v -WROTE, -WRITTEN, -WRITING, -WRITES] - See also: write

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rewrite

reworkability reworked reworking reworkings reworks reworn rewound rewove rewoven rewrap

rewrapped rewrapping rewraps rewrapt rewritable rewrite (current term) rewrite man rewriteable rewriteman rewritemen

rewriter rewriters rewrites rewriting rewritings rewritten rewrote rewrought rews rewth

Literary usage of Rewrite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1920)
"rewrite AND FOLLOW-UP STORIES Whenever a piece of important news is printed, ... In the rewrite stories, there is practically no new material; ..."

2. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence: A Manual for Reporters by Grant Milnor Hyde (1916)
"A large newspaper office employs one or more rewrite men who spend their entire time rewriting stories. To be sure, a part of their work consists of ..."

3. Newspaper Writing and Editing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1913)
"CHAPTER VIII FOLLOW UP AND rewrite STORIES News Possibilities. ... Often the next development can be anticipated to bring the rewrite up to the time of ..."

4. The Bookman (1903)
"She proposed to furnish this record, with explanations, to Mr. Dickens for him to arrange and rewrite and have them published in England, allowing him to ..."

5. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"... that it has become necessary not only to rewrite history, but to profoundly modify our theory of life and gradually, but none the less certainly, ..."

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