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AUTHORING
Verb
authoring
present participle of author
Noun
authoring (plural authorings)
The process of creating the content of a document or other content item, i.e, writing or composition.
The result of this process; a writing or composition.
Usage notes
The sense of the process of composition is very common in computing and multimedia. Also often in attribution: an authoring tool, i.e. a tool used for authoring.
Source: Wiktionary
AUTHOR
Au"thor, n. Etym: [OE. authour, autour, OF. autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce. See Auction, n.]
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton.
2. One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.
3. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]
4. An informant. [Archaic] Chaucer.
Au"thor, v. t.
1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.
2. To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.] More of him I dare not author. Massinger.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FRISK
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