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Rewrote vs Prewrote - What's the difference?

rewrote | prewrote |

As verbs the difference between rewrote and prewrote

is that rewrote is (rewrite) while prewrote is (prewrite).

rewrote

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rewrite)

    • rewrite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of writing again or anew.
  • Something that has been written again.

    • Verb

  • To write again, differently (to modify).
  • To write again (without changing).

    • Usage notes

    * The verb "restate" has analogous senses "to state again" and "to rephrase, to state again differently".

    Derived terms

    * rewritable

    prewrote

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (prewrite)

    • prewrite

    English

    Verb

  • To make a first draft of ideas and format for an essay, thesis, article, or book as a plan for the actual writing.
  • :Some students, due to anxiety, skip the most important first step, which is to prewrite the thesis, and jump into the middle of the project, which is a fatal error.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, database) A write operation that is buffered instead of being applied directly to the database.