EDIT

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

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (change a text, document, etc.): retouch, fix up, alter

• (alter a DNA sequence): splice

• (alter a film): cut

Anagrams

• -tide, DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diët, tide, tied

Source: Wiktionary

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Ed"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing.] Etym: [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.]

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

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