Definition & Meaning | English word REWRITE

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Definitions of REWRITE

1. The act of writing again or anew.
2. Something that has been written again.
3. (math, computing) The replacement of subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
4. (transitive) To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.
5. (transitive) To write again (without changes).
6. (math, computing) To replace subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.

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Examples of Using REWRITE in a Sentence

• Phrase structure rules are a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957.
• The reporters were all amateurs when they came to work, but the rewrite men were professionals, accustomed to teaching in a hard school.
• With the release of E17 written with the EFL in 2012, Enlightenment went through a major rewrite, splitting the codebase into 0.
• On Monday, July 18, 2011, Sonya Farley, a council member, said that the council plans to rewrite the ordinances in a manner that is constitutional.
• However, Mozilla has significantly reduced the usage of XUL in Firefox after their rewrite of the browser engine in version 57.
• The term is something of a misnomer since rewrite men or women do not just "rewrite"; they take notes gathered by on-the-scene-reporters, information gathered by telephone, or information from wire services or clippings from other newspapers, and combine them as they write each article.
• A rewrite of rc for Unix-like operating systems by Byron Rakitzis is also available but includes some incompatible changes.
• The rewrite is referred to as HDB or HoneyDanBer uucp, which was later enhanced, bug fixed, and repackaged as BNU UUCP ("Basic Network Utilities").
• Dahl was credited with writing the film's screenplay; however, David Seltzer was brought in to do an uncredited rewrite.
• 0 development was headed towards a complete rewrite and reimplementation of Linux userland with a new standard design outside of the POSIX specification.
• In 2006, TADS received a major overhaul with the release of TADS 3, which is a complete rewrite of the TADS engine, only retaining the platform-dependent code to ease porting.
• They proposed to establish a new Inter-Governmental Conference with a view to writing a new treaty which would rewrite the Maastricht Treaty, amend the Treaty of Rome and give the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union a legally binding status.
• In web applications, a rewrite engine is a software component that performs rewriting on URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), modifying their appearance.
• The screenwriting pair's next work with Spielberg was on his script of the science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind after David Giler's rewrite didn't convince Spielberg.
• Watt's legal staff in how to rewrite the proposed termination of a mining safety whistleblower so as to pass legal muster.
• They eventually collaborated on a rewrite of the screenplay for The Devil's 8 (1968), an action drama about moonshine drivers which ripped off The Dirty Dozen (1968).
• As a member of the touring company, he performed in many skits, including one where he and two others are at a bar, and they help him to rewrite an anecdote from his youth involving his father taking him to a baseball game; and a five-minute version of a James Bond movie, complete with Mochrie in a downhill ski chase and parachuting off a cliff.
• the title character of The History of Timon of Athens the Man-hater, a rewrite of Shakespeare's original play by Thomas Shadwell.
• Post's rewrite technique is now ubiquitous in programming language specification and design, and so with Church's lambda calculus is a salient influence of classical modern logic on practical computing.
• In 25 of The Canterbury Tales MSS (notably Harley MS 7334 and Corpus Christi 198) the Cook's unfinished tale is followed by the anonymous Tale of Gamelyn, and it has been suggested that Chaucer intended to rewrite the tale for the Cook.
• Logicians in the early 20th century aimed to solve the problem of foundations, such as, "What is the true base of mathematics?" The program was to be able to rewrite all mathematics using an entirely syntactical language without semantics.
• When combined with an appropriate algorithm, however, rewrite systems can be viewed as computer programs, and several theorem provers and declarative programming languages are based on term rewriting.
• It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to rewrite the lexicon.
• Department of Revenue; domestic relations reform measures, including bills to streamline procedures for equitable distribution, alimony and divorce; in 1995, a new rewrite of alimony laws and DWI laws; in 1997, Governor's DWI reform bill, including vehicle seizure and forfeiture provisions, and three equitable distribution reform bills; in 1999, clean air, clean water, and sedimentation bills, HMO liability, and DWI improvements.
• Events grow more serious as the series progresses as atrocities are committed by both sides, thrusting the main characters into the middle of a conflict between literary superpowers, the British Library and Dokusensha, who are both trying to collect ancient artifacts (books, of course) to control the entire world and even rewrite history.

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