rewriter

English

Etymology

From rewrite +‎ -er.

Noun

rewriter (plural rewriters)

1. One who, or that which, rewrites.
   • 1983 November 20, Haskell Nordon, “ON JAMES MICHENER'S 'POLAND'”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 May 2021:

     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], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     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.

2. (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

Etymology 1

English rewriter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ʁaj.tœʁ/

Noun

rewriter m (plural rewriters)

1. (computing) rewriter

Etymology 2

English rewrite +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ʁaj.te/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Verb

rewriter

1. (computing) to rewrite

Conjugation

Conjugation of rewriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rewriter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rewritant /ʁə.ʁaj.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rewrité /ʁə.ʁaj.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rewrite /ʁə.ʁajt/	rewrites /ʁə.ʁajt/	rewrite /ʁə.ʁajt/	rewritons /ʁə.ʁaj.tɔ̃/	rewritez /ʁə.ʁaj.te/	rewritent /ʁə.ʁajt/
	imperfect	rewritais /ʁə.ʁaj.tɛ/	rewritais /ʁə.ʁaj.tɛ/	rewritait /ʁə.ʁaj.tɛ/	rewritions /ʁə.ʁaj.tjɔ̃/	rewritiez /ʁə.ʁaj.tje/	rewritaient /ʁə.ʁaj.tɛ/
	past historic2	rewritai /ʁə.ʁaj.te/	rewritas /ʁə.ʁaj.ta/	rewrita /ʁə.ʁaj.ta/	rewritâmes /ʁə.ʁaj.tam/	rewritâtes /ʁə.ʁaj.tat/	rewritèrent /ʁə.ʁaj.tɛʁ/
	future	rewriterai /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁe/	rewriteras /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁa/	rewritera /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁa/	rewriterons /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁɔ̃/	rewriterez /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁe/	rewriteront /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rewriterais /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁɛ/	rewriterais /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁɛ/	rewriterait /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁɛ/	rewriterions /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rewriteriez /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁje/	rewriteraient /ʁə.ʁaj.tə.ʁɛ/
(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 /ʁə.ʁajt/	rewrites /ʁə.ʁajt/	rewrite /ʁə.ʁajt/	rewritions /ʁə.ʁaj.tjɔ̃/	rewritiez /ʁə.ʁaj.tje/	rewritent /ʁə.ʁajt/
	imperfect2	rewritasse /ʁə.ʁaj.tas/	rewritasses /ʁə.ʁaj.tas/	rewritât /ʁə.ʁaj.ta/	rewritassions /ʁə.ʁaj.ta.sjɔ̃/	rewritassiez /ʁə.ʁaj.ta.sje/	rewritassent /ʁə.ʁaj.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rewrite /ʁə.ʁajt/	—	rewritons /ʁə.ʁaj.tɔ̃/	rewritez /ʁə.ʁaj.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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