Meaning of EDIT
| Pronunciation: | | 'edit
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- [v] make editorial changes (in a text)
- [v] edit; "cut film"; "cut recording tape"
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| | Synonyms: | | cut, edit out, redact |
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| | See Also: | | alter, black out, blank out, blue-pencil, bracket, bracket out, change, copyedit, copyread, cut up, delete, falsify, hack, interpolate, subedit | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ed"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Edited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Editing}.] [F. ['e]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.]
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.
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