edit, redact
(verb) 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”
edit, blue-pencil, delete
(verb) cut or eliminate; “she edited the juiciest scenes”
edit, cut, edit out
(verb) cut and assemble the components of; “edit film”; “cut recording tape”
edit
(verb) supervise the publication of; “The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
edit (plural edits)
A change to the text of a document.
(computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
(comedy) An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
(genetics) An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
edit (third-person singular simple present edits, present participle editing, simple past and past participle edited)
To change a text, or a document.
(transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
(computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
(biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.
(comedy) To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
(ergative) To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
• (change a text, document, etc.): retouch, fix up, alter
• (alter a DNA sequence): splice
• (alter a film): cut
• -tide, DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diĂ«t, tide, tied
Source: Wiktionary
Ed"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing.] Etym: [F. Ă©diter, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.]
Definition: 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. Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 April 2025
(adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; “a coaxing and obsequious voice”; “her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
