Rewrite and rewriting may refer to:
*
Script doctor
A script doctor is a writer or playwright hired by a film, television, or theatre production company to rewrite an existing script or improve specific aspects of it, including structure, characterization, dialogue, pacing, themes, and other elemen ...
ing, revisions to an existing script for stage and screen productions
*
Rewriting
In mathematics, computer science, and logic, rewriting covers a wide range of methods of replacing subterms of a well-formed formula, formula with other terms. Such methods may be achieved by rewriting systems (also known as rewrite systems, rewr ...
, methods for replacing elements of a formula with other suitable expressions, in mathematics, computer science, and logic, such as:
**
Graph rewriting, technique of creating a new graph out of an original graph algorithmically
**
Sender Rewriting Scheme, a scheme for rewriting the envelope sender address of an email message
**
String rewriting
In theoretical computer science and mathematical logic a string rewriting system (SRS), historically called a semi-Thue system, is a rewriting system over strings from a (usually finite) alphabet. Given a binary relation R between fixed strings ove ...
, a rewriting system over strings from an alphabet
*
Rewrite (programming)
A rewrite in computer programming is the act or result of re-implementing a large portion of existing functionality without re-use of its source code. When the rewrite is not using existing code at all, it is common to speak of a rewrite from scra ...
, the act or result of writing new source code to replace an existing computer program
*
Rewrite man, a journalist that crafts stories based on information reported by others
*
"Rewrite" (song), 2004 single by Asian Kung-Fu Generation
*
''Rewrite'' (video game), a 2011 Japanese visual novel by Key
*''
The Rewrite'', a 2014 American romantic comedy film
See also
*
Tax Law Rewrite Project
The Tax Law Rewrite Project of HM Revenue and Customs was a major effort to re-write the entire tax legislation of the United Kingdom in a format which is both more consistent and more understandable. It aimed to remove archaic language and impen ...
, a major effort to re-write the entire tax legislation of the United Kingdom
*
Blackwhite
Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements o ...
, or Rewriting the past, according to George Orwell's ''1984''
*
Rewrite engine
In web applications, a rewrite engine is a software component that performs rewriting on URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), modifying their appearance. This modification is called URL rewriting. It is a way of implementing URL mapping or routing ...
, webserver component that performs rewriting on URLs
*
Rewrite history
In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of a historical account. It usually involves challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) views held by professional scholars about a historical event or timesp ...
, the re-interpretation of a historical account
{{Disambiguation