rewriter
English
Etymology
Noun
rewriter (plural rewriters)
- One who, or that which, rewrites.
- 1983 November 20, Haskell Nordon, “ON JAMES MICHENER'S 'POLAND'”, in The New York Times[1]:
- On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times.
- 2009 April 16, Charles McGrath, “Sex and Crime, the Updates: Gay Talese Is Back on the Beat”, in The New York Times[2]:
- Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities.
- (computing) Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
rewriter m (plural rewriters)
Verb
rewriter
Conjugation
Conjugation of rewriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rewriter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rewritant /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rewrité /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
rewrites /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
rewritons /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
rewritez /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/ |
rewritent /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
| imperfect | rewritais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/ |
rewritais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/ |
rewritait /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/ |
rewritions /ʁɛw.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
rewritiez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tje/ |
rewritaient /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rewritai /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/ |
rewritas /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta/ |
rewrita /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta/ |
rewritâmes /ʁɛw.ʁi.tam/ |
rewritâtes /ʁɛw.ʁi.tat/ |
rewritèrent /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | rewriterai /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁe/ |
rewriteras /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁa/ |
rewritera /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁa/ |
rewriterons /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ |
rewriterez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁe/ |
rewriteront /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rewriterais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
rewriterais /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
rewriterait /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
rewriterions /ʁɛw.ʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rewriteriez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tə.ʁje/ |
rewriteraient /ʁɛw.ʁi.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
rewrites /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
rewritions /ʁɛw.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
rewritiez /ʁɛw.ʁi.tje/ |
rewritent /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
| imperfect2 | rewritasse /ʁɛw.ʁi.tas/ |
rewritasses /ʁɛw.ʁi.tas/ |
rewritât /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta/ |
rewritassions /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
rewritassiez /ʁɛw.ʁi.ta.sje/ |
rewritassent /ʁɛw.ʁi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rewrite /ʁɛw.ʁit/ |
— | rewritons /ʁɛw.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
rewritez /ʁɛw.ʁi.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rewriter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012