rewritingn.

Brit.

/ˌriːˈrʌɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/riˈraɪdɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rewrite v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < rewrite v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action or process of writing again, esp. in a different form; an instance of this. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. i. xviii. 133 He..flattered him with an assurance of having his business done, that is, the answers and re-writing, before Vellum possibly could, for they were mortal enemies.

1838 J. S. Mill Let. 19 Oct. in M. Fawcett Life Sir W. Molesworth (1901) x. 204 This winter..will see me through the whole of it except the rewriting.

1854 C. M. Yonge Heartsease I. ii. xii. 309 She has..given me some re-writing to do.

1863 Sat. Rev. 4 Apr. 446 There is nothing in them that cannot easily be remedied by a little re-writing.

1892 Athenæum 9 Apr. 468/3 ‘The Foreign Policy of Pitt’..is hardly a rewriting of history.

1994 J. Hawthorn Gloss. Contemp. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) 175 Recent feminist rewritings of fairy-tales can problematize the reader's relationship to familiar tales by means of metanarratives which change this relationship from a passive to an active one.

2. Computing and Electronics. The action or process of replacing data on a storage medium (esp. a rewritable optical disc) with other data; the action or process of writing data for a second or further time. Cf. rewrite v. 2c.

ΚΠ

1994 Electronic Engin. Times 1 Aug. 28 Data is shuffled and recorded across and within multiple tracks for maximum recoverability, implementing read-after-write verification and automatic rewriting.

2001 Contact May 10/2 CD rewriting can be done at 4-speed.

2008 HWM Aug. 92/1 The Blu-ray disc meets legal requirements against rewriting and tampering of stored data.

Compounds

rewriting rule n. Linguistics a rule that governs the rewriting of a structural analysis; cf. rewrite rule n. at rewrite n. and adj. Compounds 2.

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

1961 N. Chomsky in Proc. 12th Symposium Appl. Math. 18 If the passive transformation were to apply as a ‘rewriting rule’, at a stage of derivation preceding the application of the context-restricted rewriting [etc].

1970 Language 46 261 These PS rules generate the structure-sensitive aⁿb aⁿ quite simply with one non-terminal category and two rewriting rules.

2002 Ann. Math. 156 473 After every application of a rewriting rule, the word is automatically reduced.

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

单词	rewriting
释义	rewritingn. Brit. /ˌriːˈrʌɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /riˈraɪdɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rewrite v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < rewrite v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action or process of writing again, esp. in a different form; an instance of this. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. i. xviii. 133 He..flattered him with an assurance of having his business done, that is, the answers and re-writing, before Vellum possibly could, for they were mortal enemies. 1838 J. S. Mill Let. 19 Oct. in M. Fawcett Life Sir W. Molesworth (1901) x. 204 This winter..will see me through the whole of it except the rewriting. 1854 C. M. Yonge Heartsease I. ii. xii. 309 She has..given me some re-writing to do. 1863 Sat. Rev. 4 Apr. 446 There is nothing in them that cannot easily be remedied by a little re-writing. 1892 Athenæum 9 Apr. 468/3 ‘The Foreign Policy of Pitt’..is hardly a rewriting of history. 1994 J. Hawthorn Gloss. Contemp. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) 175 Recent feminist rewritings of fairy-tales can problematize the reader's relationship to familiar tales by means of metanarratives which change this relationship from a passive to an active one. 2. Computing and Electronics. The action or process of replacing data on a storage medium (esp. a rewritable optical disc) with other data; the action or process of writing data for a second or further time. Cf. rewrite v. 2c. ΚΠ 1994 Electronic Engin. Times 1 Aug. 28 Data is shuffled and recorded across and within multiple tracks for maximum recoverability, implementing read-after-write verification and automatic rewriting. 2001 Contact May 10/2 CD rewriting can be done at 4-speed. 2008 HWM Aug. 92/1 The Blu-ray disc meets legal requirements against rewriting and tampering of stored data. Compounds rewriting rule n. Linguistics a rule that governs the rewriting of a structural analysis; cf. rewrite rule n. at rewrite n. and adj. Compounds 2. 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 1961 N. Chomsky in Proc. 12th Symposium Appl. Math. 18 If the passive transformation were to apply as a ‘rewriting rule’, at a stage of derivation preceding the application of the context-restricted rewriting [etc]. 1970 Language 46 261 These PS rules generate the structure-sensitive aⁿb aⁿ quite simply with one non-terminal category and two rewriting rules. 2002 Ann. Math. 156 473 After every application of a rewriting rule, the word is automatically reduced. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1760
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