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rewriter

noun

Etymology

From rewrite + -er.

  1. derived from *wrey-✻ — “to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *wrītaną✻ — “to carve, write”
  3. inherited from *wrītan✻
  4. inherited from wrītan
  5. inherited from writen
  6. prefixed as rewrite — “re + write”
  7. formed as rewriter — “rewrite + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, rewrites.

    • 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.

  2. Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rewriter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA