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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
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, 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
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CRITICAL
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
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