rewriten.adj.

Brit.

/ˈriːrʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈriˌraɪt/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rewrite v.

Etymology: < rewrite v. Compare earlier rewriting n.

A. n. colloquial (originally U.S.).

1. The act of rewriting or revising a text; a revised version of a text. (Chiefly in journalistic and publishing use.)

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > the act of revising a text

rewrite1901

society > communication > writing > manner of writing > rewriting > [noun]

rewrite1901

1901 Postal Rec. Jan. 12/1 ‘Song of the Saginaw Postman’ was a rewrite of the ‘Brooklyn Postman’, by Brother Walworth.

1933 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday iii. 181 To vet a book is to revise it, whether for the author or for his publisher; if the work entailed amounts to a virtual rewriting, the resulting typescript or manuscript is a re-write.

1938 E. Pound Let. 22 Apr. (1971) 307 How much revision do you propose to make in the proofs?.. We're not out for collaboration and rewrite à la E. P.

1952 Scrutiny June 3/3 Dryden states the case nicely in the Preface to his rewrite of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

1972 H. Evans Editing & Design: Newsman's Eng. ix. 191 Mix both techniques—rewrite the lead into the story but edit the rest of it on copy... Or you can move nearer to a full-scale rewrite.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Apr. iva. 36/1 Plagiarism..might result..in an ‘F’ on the paper, a required rewrite and some period of social probation, barring the student from leaving campus during free periods.

2. A person or department at a newspaper engaged in rewriting reporters' stories.

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society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > rewriter

rewrite1918

society > communication > printing > publishing > editing for publication > [noun] > editor

editionera1646

editor1646

undertaker1685

editoress1737

sorter1758

editress1775

rédacteur1785

redactor1793

literary editor1801

ed.1806

redacter1816

editrix1838

reworker1876

editor1881

rewrite1918

1918 Current Opinion July 51/2 I've been through the mill. Police court, police headquarters, magistrate's court, city-hall, copy-desk, rewrite, city-desk.., and sometimes ‘Fashions and Hints for the Home’.

1926 E. B. White Let. Sept. (1976) 75 Carl..gravitated naturally down to Mr. Hearst's American and got a job on rewrite.

1976 N.Y. Times 1 June 12 Gone are the days of the old wire-service reporter, hat cocked on head, cigarette dangling from lip, knocking down the opposition in the rush to the telephone and shouting, ‘Hello, sweetheart, get me rewrite!’

2008 I. Doig Eleventh Man xii. 264 ‘Take something down for me, will you?’.. She twitted him, ‘Isn't the usual line, “Get me rewrite!”?’

B. adj. (attributive).

Linguistics. Of or relating to the act or process of writing an analysis of a phrase or sentence structure in a different form, usually by expansion. Chiefly in rewrite rule n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > [adjective] > specific types or features of linguistic analysis

paradigmatic1891

realizational1904

non-distinctive1916

principled1919

binary1921

over-differentiated1927

marked1933

unmarked1933

isomorphic1937

nuclear1937

contrastive1940

metalinguistic1941

metalingual1942

componential1947

linear1955

rewrite1960

unordered1960

taxonomic1962

non-binary1971

1960 R. B. Lees Gram. Eng. Nominalizations i. 2 The rewrite rules, which permit the conversion of given strings of symbols into more expanded strings.

1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. ii. 17 In the grammar above the items to the left and right of the ‘rewrite’ arrow are strings of symbols.

1975 I. Robinson New Grammarian's Funeral (1978) v. 88 He tries to get at the meaning by a process analogous to his ‘rewrite’ syntactic analysis of a sentence.

1980 G. Sampson Schools of Linguistics ix. 229 The syntactic differences between these clauses would correlate with choice of rewrite for the category symbol ‘VP’ and for certain other symbols in the base.

1993 P. H. Matthews Grammatical Theory in U.S. iii. 158 A possible reason is that this was another cramping effect of Chomsky's initial conception of a grammar as a restricted form of rewrite system.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the noun.

a. General attributive, as rewrite desk, rewrite person, rewrite story, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [adjective] > of or relating to the revising of a text

rewrite1901

1901 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 222/1 Much of the copy that reaches the big newspaper offices is passed over to the ‘rewrite man’.

1912 G. M. Hyde Newspaper Reporting ix. 125 The terms ‘rewrite story’ and ‘follow-up, or follow, story’, are names which newspaper men apply to the rehashed or revised versions of other news stories.

1935 Amer. Mercury July 379/2 I have yet to discover an instance of real literary talent being brought to the surface by back-breaking chores on the rewrite desk.

1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four ii. iii. 131 She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad.

1955 H. Roth Sleeper xv. 126 She seemed..capable, especially of rewrite, and good rewrite people are hard to find.

1975 M. Ivins in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 50/2 The voters had agreed that the state's 100-year-old barnacle-encrusted constitution..needed a rewrite job.

1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power x. 179 Giles had ‘punched his ticket’ at all the right stops within the Journal—first writing the page-one news capsules, as Phillips had done, next enjoining the esteemed front-page rewrite team.

2004 C. Cobb Ego & Ink xxiii. 318 Reporters received calls from Post editors and ‘rewrite’ people—reporters employed to retool wire stories in Post style.

rewrite man n. a person employed to rewrite newspaper copy for publication; also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journalist > editor of journal or newspaper > [noun] > copy editor

copy editor1899

rewrite man1901

1901*Rewrite man [see Compounds 1a].

1928 B. Hecht & C. MacArthur Front Page ii. 72 Endicott calling. Gimme a rewrite man.

1960 R. St. John Foreign Correspondent i. 12 I had been a rewrite man in Camden, New Jersey.

1973 Times 2 Mar. 14/4 He is..the GLC's chief strategic planner and ‘rewrite man’ on planning policy.

2003 New Yorker 30 June 43/1 In between sit the rewrite men and the middle-aged veterans, who include, among others, ‘foreign correspondents who have been sent home to pasture’.

C2. Compounds of the adjective.

rewrite rule n. Linguistics = rewriting rule n. at rewriting n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > change of word order or position > specifically in transformational grammar > transformational rule > specific

production1960

rewrite rule1960

rewriting rule1961

projection rule1962

morphographemic rule1965

readjustment rule1967

1960*Rewrite rule [see sense B.].

1977 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 79 Many individual verbs will no doubt need extra specifications in terms of ‘context-sensitive rewrite rules’.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Feb. 33/2 Such rules are sometimes called ‘rewrite rules’ or ‘phrase structure rules’ because they determine the elementary phrase structure of the sentence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rewritev.

Brit.

/ˌriːˈrʌɪt/, U.S.

/riˈraɪt/

Inflections: Past tense rewrote; past participle rewritten;

Forms: see re- prefix and write v.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, write v.

Etymology: < re- prefix + write v. With sense 2c compare earlier rewritable adj.

†1. transitive. To write back; to reply in writing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > letter-writing > write (a letter) [verb (transitive)] > write in reply

rewrite1567

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Dij Straighte waye when he had searchd his house: Rewrytte [L. scribit] agayne this mome.

a. transitive. To write again, esp. in a different form. Also figurative. Also reflexive and intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > manner of writing > rewriting > rewrite [verb (transitive)]

to write over1555

rescribe1565

rewrite1603

repen1615

rework1837

overwrite1874

1603 J. Swan in T. Jackson Dauids Pastorall Poeme sig. S3 Wherein, no maruaile if we might be ouertaken, considering the closenesse of the Copie, and the same not re-written, but deliuered vnto vs as he did set it downe at the first draught.

1631 T. Taylor Regula Vitae ii. 22 For the very Heathens had it written in their hearts..and much lesse can it be shaken out of the beleever, in whom it is renewed and rewritten in their spirits by the finger of Gods spirit.

1730 E. Young Two Epist. to Pope ii. 34 Write and re-write, blot out, and write again.

1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. i. xviii. 128 Then there's that book you promised to re-write; some one else will do it, and prevent you.

1806 R. Southey Let. 1 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 8 I acknowledge no fault.., except the struggle of the women.., which is all clumsily done, and must be rewritten.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 66 Every generation..demands that the history of its forefathers be rewritten from its own point of view.

1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare 103 The two tragedies..were thoroughly recast and rewritten from end to end.

1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Oct. 265/2 The events of the last four years in which the history of 1906 to 1914 was rewriting itself.

1972 L. Murray Poems against Econ. 19 I almost followed you once. I have new masters now, though. They are rewriting the world. They make me homesick for honour, that terrible country The poor still believe in.

2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 197 So far as I can make out all that woman has ever done is rewrite Kipling's ‘If’ for bolshy nellies.

b. transitive. Linguistics. To write (an analysis of a phrase or sentence structure) in a different form, usually by expansion. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > have syntactic relation [verb (intransitive)] > transform

rewrite1955

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > have syntactic relation with [verb (transitive)] > transform

map1955

rewrite1955

1955 N. Chomsky Logical Struct. Linguistic Theory vi. 235 We can produce derivations from this linear grammar by applying the conversions S_i (interpreted as the instruction ‘rewrite X_i as Y_i’) in sequence.

1957 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. v. 40 These rules can be dropped if we rewrite..so that either C or M, but not both, can be selected.

1970 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 97 We know that rule 1 must be the first rule executed because S is the initial symbol and rule 1 is the only rule that rewrites S.

1980 Linguistic Inq. 11 203 The Specified Subject Condition will be rewritten as a condition on predication.

2001 P. Seuren View of Lang. xxi. 474 Rule S-2 is thus to be read as follows: ‘rewrite ben as Ø, whenever it is followed by a V_[+e], except when preceded by ben’.

c. transitive. Computing and Electronics. To write (data) to a storage medium (now esp. a rewritable optical disc) for a second or further time; to replace the data on (a storage medium) with other data. Also intransitive. Cf. write v. 13.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (transitive)] > overwrite

overwrite1951

rewrite1983

1983 InfoWorld 31 Oct. 78/3 You can choose to delete the marked records and rewrite the file.

1992 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 12 May Intel's Flash Cards can hold 20 megabytes..and data can be erased and rewritten exactly as it is on disks.

1998 LAN Mag. (Nexis) 15 Nov. With CD-RW, you can erase data and rewrite to the CD-RW disk up to 1,000 times.

2004 S. J. Bigelow PC Hardware Annoyances iv. 164/1 If ScanDisc fails to recover the data, it's a simple matter to erase and rewrite the disc.

2009 G. Hart-Davis PC QuickSteps (ed. 2) i. 6/2 To rewrite data, you must use rewritable optical discs.

Phrases

Originally U.S. Sport. to rewrite the record books (also book): to set a new record or records; also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1927 Evening State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 28 June 8/1 The weather now appears as the only factor likely to trip up the athletes in their efforts to re-write the record books.

1942 Los Angeles Times 20 Dec. ii. 12/6 All Don has done is to rewrite the record book. He now holds eight records.

1969 Times 9 Sept. (Singapore Suppl.) p. vi/3 It is the phenomenal development of Singapore as an oil refining and distribution centre that is largely rewriting the record book.

1989 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 7 Sept. Five years ago a little-known film opened in Adelaide and then set about running for more than two years and rewriting the record books.

2008 T. Balf Major vii. 108 The next day he rewrote the record books again, bettering his previous marks at every distance he attempted.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rewrite
释义	rewriten.adj. Brit. /ˈriːrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈriˌraɪt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rewrite v. Etymology: < rewrite v. Compare earlier rewriting n. A. n. colloquial (originally U.S.). 1. The act of rewriting or revising a text; a revised version of a text. (Chiefly in journalistic and publishing use.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > the act of revising a text rewrite1901 society > communication > writing > manner of writing > rewriting > [noun] rewrite1901 1901 Postal Rec. Jan. 12/1 ‘Song of the Saginaw Postman’ was a rewrite of the ‘Brooklyn Postman’, by Brother Walworth. 1933 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday iii. 181 To vet a book is to revise it, whether for the author or for his publisher; if the work entailed amounts to a virtual rewriting, the resulting typescript or manuscript is a re-write. 1938 E. Pound Let. 22 Apr. (1971) 307 How much revision do you propose to make in the proofs?.. We're not out for collaboration and rewrite à la E. P. 1952 Scrutiny June 3/3 Dryden states the case nicely in the Preface to his rewrite of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. 1972 H. Evans Editing & Design: Newsman's Eng. ix. 191 Mix both techniques—rewrite the lead into the story but edit the rest of it on copy... Or you can move nearer to a full-scale rewrite. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Apr. iva. 36/1 Plagiarism..might result..in an ‘F’ on the paper, a required rewrite and some period of social probation, barring the student from leaving campus during free periods. 2. A person or department at a newspaper engaged in rewriting reporters' stories. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > rewriter rewrite1918 society > communication > printing > publishing > editing for publication > [noun] > editor editionera1646 editor1646 undertaker1685 editoress1737 sorter1758 editress1775 rédacteur1785 redactor1793 literary editor1801 ed.1806 redacter1816 editrix1838 reworker1876 editor1881 rewrite1918 1918 Current Opinion July 51/2 I've been through the mill. Police court, police headquarters, magistrate's court, city-hall, copy-desk, rewrite, city-desk.., and sometimes ‘Fashions and Hints for the Home’. 1926 E. B. White Let. Sept. (1976) 75 Carl..gravitated naturally down to Mr. Hearst's American and got a job on rewrite. 1976 N.Y. Times 1 June 12 Gone are the days of the old wire-service reporter, hat cocked on head, cigarette dangling from lip, knocking down the opposition in the rush to the telephone and shouting, ‘Hello, sweetheart, get me rewrite!’ 2008 I. Doig Eleventh Man xii. 264 ‘Take something down for me, will you?’.. She twitted him, ‘Isn't the usual line, “Get me rewrite!”?’ B. adj. (attributive). Linguistics. Of or relating to the act or process of writing an analysis of a phrase or sentence structure in a different form, usually by expansion. Chiefly in rewrite rule n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [adjective] > specific types or features of linguistic analysis paradigmatic1891 realizational1904 non-distinctive1916 principled1919 binary1921 over-differentiated1927 marked1933 unmarked1933 isomorphic1937 nuclear1937 contrastive1940 metalinguistic1941 metalingual1942 componential1947 linear1955 rewrite1960 unordered1960 taxonomic1962 non-binary1971 1960 R. B. Lees Gram. Eng. Nominalizations i. 2 The rewrite rules, which permit the conversion of given strings of symbols into more expanded strings. 1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. ii. 17 In the grammar above the items to the left and right of the ‘rewrite’ arrow are strings of symbols. 1975 I. Robinson New Grammarian's Funeral (1978) v. 88 He tries to get at the meaning by a process analogous to his ‘rewrite’ syntactic analysis of a sentence. 1980 G. Sampson Schools of Linguistics ix. 229 The syntactic differences between these clauses would correlate with choice of rewrite for the category symbol ‘VP’ and for certain other symbols in the base. 1993 P. H. Matthews Grammatical Theory in U.S. iii. 158 A possible reason is that this was another cramping effect of Chomsky's initial conception of a grammar as a restricted form of rewrite system. Compounds C1. Compounds of the noun. a. General attributive, as rewrite desk, rewrite person, rewrite story, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [adjective] > of or relating to the revising of a text rewrite1901 1901 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 222/1 Much of the copy that reaches the big newspaper offices is passed over to the ‘rewrite man’. 1912 G. M. Hyde Newspaper Reporting ix. 125 The terms ‘rewrite story’ and ‘follow-up, or follow, story’, are names which newspaper men apply to the rehashed or revised versions of other news stories. 1935 Amer. Mercury July 379/2 I have yet to discover an instance of real literary talent being brought to the surface by back-breaking chores on the rewrite desk. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four ii. iii. 131 She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad. 1955 H. Roth Sleeper xv. 126 She seemed..capable, especially of rewrite, and good rewrite people are hard to find. 1975 M. Ivins in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 50/2 The voters had agreed that the state's 100-year-old barnacle-encrusted constitution..needed a rewrite job. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power x. 179 Giles had ‘punched his ticket’ at all the right stops within the Journal—first writing the page-one news capsules, as Phillips had done, next enjoining the esteemed front-page rewrite team. 2004 C. Cobb Ego & Ink xxiii. 318 Reporters received calls from Post editors and ‘rewrite’ people—reporters employed to retool wire stories in Post style. b. rewrite man n. a person employed to rewrite newspaper copy for publication; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > editor of journal or newspaper > [noun] > copy editor copy editor1899 rewrite man1901 1901Rewrite man [see Compounds 1a]. 1928 B. Hecht & C. MacArthur Front Page* ii. 72 Endicott calling. Gimme a rewrite man. 1960 R. St. John Foreign Correspondent i. 12 I had been a rewrite man in Camden, New Jersey. 1973 Times 2 Mar. 14/4 He is..the GLC's chief strategic planner and ‘rewrite man’ on planning policy. 2003 New Yorker 30 June 43/1 In between sit the rewrite men and the middle-aged veterans, who include, among others, ‘foreign correspondents who have been sent home to pasture’. C2. Compounds of the adjective. rewrite rule n. Linguistics = rewriting rule n. at rewriting n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > change of word order or position > specifically in transformational grammar > transformational rule > specific production1960 rewrite rule1960 rewriting rule1961 projection rule1962 morphographemic rule1965 readjustment rule1967 1960Rewrite rule [see sense B.]. 1977 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975* 79 Many individual verbs will no doubt need extra specifications in terms of ‘context-sensitive rewrite rules’. 2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Feb. 33/2 Such rules are sometimes called ‘rewrite rules’ or ‘phrase structure rules’ because they determine the elementary phrase structure of the sentence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rewritev. Brit. /ˌriːˈrʌɪt/, U.S. /riˈraɪt/ Inflections: Past tense rewrote; past participle rewritten; Forms: see re- prefix and write v. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, write v. Etymology: < re- prefix + write v. With sense 2c compare earlier rewritable adj. †1. transitive. To write back; to reply in writing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter-writing > write (a letter) [verb (transitive)] > write in reply rewrite1567 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Dij Straighte waye when he had searchd his house: Rewrytte [L. scribit] agayne this mome. 2. a. transitive. To write again, esp. in a different form. Also figurative. Also reflexive and intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > rewriting > rewrite [verb (transitive)] to write over1555 rescribe1565 rewrite1603 repen1615 rework1837 overwrite1874 1603 J. Swan in T. Jackson Dauids Pastorall Poeme sig. S3 Wherein, no maruaile if we might be ouertaken, considering the closenesse of the Copie, and the same not re-written, but deliuered vnto vs as he did set it downe at the first draught. 1631 T. Taylor Regula Vitae ii. 22 For the very Heathens had it written in their hearts..and much lesse can it be shaken out of the beleever, in whom it is renewed and rewritten in their spirits by the finger of Gods spirit. 1730 E. Young Two Epist. to Pope ii. 34 Write and re-write, blot out, and write again. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. i. xviii. 128 Then there's that book you promised to re-write; some one else will do it, and prevent you. 1806 R. Southey Let. 1 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 8 I acknowledge no fault.., except the struggle of the women.., which is all clumsily done, and must be rewritten. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 66 Every generation..demands that the history of its forefathers be rewritten from its own point of view. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare 103 The two tragedies..were thoroughly recast and rewritten from end to end. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Oct. 265/2 The events of the last four years in which the history of 1906 to 1914 was rewriting itself. 1972 L. Murray Poems against Econ. 19 I almost followed you once. I have new masters now, though. They are rewriting the world. They make me homesick for honour, that terrible country The poor still believe in. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 197 So far as I can make out all that woman has ever done is rewrite Kipling's ‘If’ for bolshy nellies. b. transitive. Linguistics. To write (an analysis of a phrase or sentence structure) in a different form, usually by expansion. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > have syntactic relation [verb (intransitive)] > transform rewrite1955 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > have syntactic relation with [verb (transitive)] > transform map1955 rewrite1955 1955 N. Chomsky Logical Struct. Linguistic Theory vi. 235 We can produce derivations from this linear grammar by applying the conversions S_i (interpreted as the instruction ‘rewrite X_i as Y_i’) in sequence. 1957 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. v. 40 These rules can be dropped if we rewrite..so that either C or M, but not both, can be selected. 1970 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 97 We know that rule 1 must be the first rule executed because S is the initial symbol and rule 1 is the only rule that rewrites S. 1980 Linguistic Inq. 11 203 The Specified Subject Condition will be rewritten as a condition on predication. 2001 P. Seuren View of Lang. xxi. 474 Rule S-2 is thus to be read as follows: ‘rewrite ben as Ø, whenever it is followed by a V_[+e], except when preceded by ben’. c. transitive. Computing and Electronics. To write (data) to a storage medium (now esp. a rewritable optical disc) for a second or further time; to replace the data on (a storage medium) with other data. Also intransitive. Cf. write v. 13. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (transitive)] > overwrite overwrite1951 rewrite1983 1983 InfoWorld 31 Oct. 78/3 You can choose to delete the marked records and rewrite the file. 1992 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 12 May Intel's Flash Cards can hold 20 megabytes..and data can be erased and rewritten exactly as it is on disks. 1998 LAN Mag. (Nexis) 15 Nov. With CD-RW, you can erase data and rewrite to the CD-RW disk up to 1,000 times. 2004 S. J. Bigelow PC Hardware Annoyances iv. 164/1 If ScanDisc fails to recover the data, it's a simple matter to erase and rewrite the disc. 2009 G. Hart-Davis PC QuickSteps (ed. 2) i. 6/2 To rewrite data, you must use rewritable optical discs. Phrases Originally U.S. Sport. to rewrite the record books (also book): to set a new record or records; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1927 Evening State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 28 June 8/1 The weather now appears as the only factor likely to trip up the athletes in their efforts to re-write the record books. 1942 Los Angeles Times 20 Dec. ii. 12/6 All Don has done is to rewrite the record book. He now holds eight records. 1969 Times 9 Sept. (Singapore Suppl.) p. vi/3 It is the phenomenal development of Singapore as an oil refining and distribution centre that is largely rewriting the record book. 1989 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 7 Sept. Five years ago a little-known film opened in Adelaide and then set about running for more than two years and rewriting the record books. 2008 T. Balf Major vii. 108 The next day he rewrote the record books again, bettering his previous marks at every distance he attempted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1901v.1567
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