Definitions of edit [ˈɛd ɪt]

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Definition of 'edit'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) edit
to supervise or direct the preparation of (a publication); serve as editor of.

2.  edit
to collect, prepare, and arrange (materials) for publication.

3.  edit
to revise or correct, as a manuscript.

4.  edit
to delete; eliminate (often fol. by out):
to edit out all references to his family.

5.  edit
to prepare (film, tape, etc.) by deleting, arranging, and splicing material.

6.  edit
to alter the arrangement of (genes).

7.  edit
to modify (computer data or text).

8. (n.) edit
an instance or the process of editing.

Etymology: (1785–95; partly back formation from editor , partly < F éditer < L ēditus published)

Definition of 'edit'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) edit, redact
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"

2. (verb) edit
supervise the publication of
"The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"

3. (verb) edit, cut, edit out
cut and assemble the components of
"edit film"; "cut recording tape"

4. (verb) edit, blue-pencil, delete
cut or eliminate
"she edited the juiciest scenes"

Definition of 'edit'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) edit
to prepare the final version of a book, magazine, movie, etc. by making changes to it
She was editing the last chapter.

Definition of 'edit'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) edit
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

Translation of 'edit'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to prepare (a book, manuscript, newspaper, programme, film etc) for publication, or for broadcasting etc, especially by correcting, altering, shortening etc.
Afrikaans: redigeer	Arabic: يُحَرِّرُ	Bulgarian: редактирам
Brazilian: editar	Czech: připravit k vydání	German: herausgeben
Danish: redigere	Greek: επιμελούμαι	Spanish: preparar, editar
Estonian: toimetama	Farsi: ویرایش کردن؛ برای چاپ آما	Finnish: muokata
French: préparer, mettre au point	Hebrew: לַעֲרוֹך	Hindi: संपादन करना
Croatian: uređivati	Hungarian: sajtó alá rendez, szerkes	Indonesian: menyunting
Icelandic: búa til útgáfu; klippa; r	Italian: curare l'edizione di	Japanese: 編集する
Korean: 편집하다, 교정하다	Lithuanian: redaguoti	Latvian: rediģēt
Malay: sunting	Dutch: uitgeven, monteren	Norwegian: redigere
Polish: redagować	Persian: ویرایش کردن؛ برای چاپ آما	Pashto: نشرته چمتو كول (لكه دورځپ
Portuguese: preparar a edição de	Russian: редактировать; монтироват	Slovak: pripraviť na vydanie
Slovenian: urejati	Serbian: uređivati	Swedish: redigera, vara redaktör f
Thai: เรียบเรียงแก้ไข	Turkish: yayına hazırlamak	Taiwanese: 編輯
Ukrainian: редагувати, готувати до д	Urdu: اشاعت کے لۓ تیار کرنا	Vietnamese: biên tập
Chinese: 编辑
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