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edit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb edit has 4 senses
- edit(v = verb.change) redact - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" is one way to alter, change, modify
- edit(v = verb.communication) Array - supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years" is one way to bring out, issue, publish, put out, release
- edit(v = verb.change) cut, edit out - cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape" is one way to alter, change, modify
- edit(v = verb.change) blue-pencil, delete - cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" is one way to censor
Derived forms noun editing1, noun editor1
Sample sentence:
They won't edit the story
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Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
They will edit the duet
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Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
edit, v. t. [F. éditer, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.].
To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper. [1913 Webster]
"Philosophical treatises which have never been edited."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
edit, v. & n.
--v.tr. (edited, editing)
1 a assemble, prepare, or modify (written material, esp. the work of another or others) for publication. b prepare an edition of (an author's work).
2 be in overall charge of the content and arrangement of (a newspaper, journal, etc.).
3 take extracts from and collate (films, tape-recordings, etc.) to form a unified sequence.
4 a prepare (data) for processing by a computer. b alter (a text entered in a word processor etc.).
5 a reword to correct, or to alter the emphasis. b (foll. by out) remove (part) from a text etc.
--n.
1 a a piece of editing. b an edited item.
2 a facility for editing.
--v.tr. (edited, editing)
1 a assemble, prepare, or modify (written material, esp. the work of another or others) for publication. b prepare an edition of (an author's work).
2 be in overall charge of the content and arrangement of (a newspaper, journal, etc.).
3 take extracts from and collate (films, tape-recordings, etc.) to form a unified sequence.
4 a prepare (data) for processing by a computer. b alter (a text entered in a word processor etc.).
5 a reword to correct, or to alter the emphasis. b (foll. by out) remove (part) from a text etc.
--n.
1 a a piece of editing. b an edited item.
2 a facility for editing.
Etymology
F {eacute}diter (as EDITION): partly a back-form. f. EDITOR
THESAURUS
edit
abbreviate, abridge, adapt, alter, amend, annotate, arrange, assemble, blip, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, change, clean up, comment upon, commentate, compile, compress, condense, copy, copy out, correct, crop, cross out, cut, cut out, delete, draft, draw up, edit out, emend, emendate, enface, engross, erase, expunge, expurgate, gloss, inscribe, kill, make a recension, make an edition, make out, modify, omit, order, organize, pen, pencil, polish, prepare, push the pen, put in writing, recense, record, rectify, redact, redraft, reduce, remark upon, reorder, reorganize, rephrase, rescind, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, rub out, scribe, scrive, scroll, select, shorten, spill ink, spoil paper, strike, strike off, strike out, style, superscribe, touch up, trace, transcribe, type, void, work over, write, write down, write outROGET THESAURUS
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Publication
VB publish, make public, make known, speak of, talk of, broach, utter, put forward, circulate, propagate, promulgate, spread, spread abroad, rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate, put forth, give forth, send forth, emit, edit, get out, issue, bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public, give out, give to the world, put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about, drag into the open day, voice, proclaim, herald, blazon, blaze abroad, noise abroad, sound a trumpet, trumpet forth, thunder forth, give tongue, announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets, proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross, advertise, placard, post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier, raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report, set news afloat, be published, be public, become public, come out, go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind, find vent, see the light, go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current, go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land, virum volitare per ora, pass from mouth to mouth, spread, run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.
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