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- [verb ree-rahyt; noun ree-rahyt]
- /verb riˈraɪt; noun ˈriˌraɪt/
- /ˌriːˈraɪt/
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- [verb ree-rahyt; noun ree-rahyt]
- /verb riˈraɪt; noun ˈriˌraɪt/
Definitions of rewrite word
- verb with object rewrite to write in a different form or manner; revise: to rewrite the entire book. 1
- verb with object rewrite to write again. 1
- verb with object rewrite to write (news submitted by a reporter) for inclusion in a newspaper. 1
- noun rewrite the news story rewritten. 1
- noun rewrite something written in a different form or manner; revision: They loved the rewrite, and said it would be a blockbuster! 1
- transitive verb rewrite write in a revised form 1
Information block about the term
Origin of rewrite
First appearance:
before 1560 One of the 32% oldest English words
First recorded in 1560-70; re- + write
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Rewrite
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
rewrite popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
rewrite usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for rewrite
verb rewrite
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- bang out — If a company bangs out a poor quality product, they produce large quantities of it in order to make money.
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
noun rewrite
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- deskman — a person who works at a desk in a workplace, esp the police sergeant in charge in a police station or a copy editor in a news office
- editor — a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication: She was offered a managing editor position at a small press.
- newspaperman — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
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