Definitions for editˈɛd ɪt

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ed•itˈɛd ɪt(v.t.)

to supervise or direct the preparation of (a publication); serve as editor of.
to collect, prepare, and arrange (materials) for publication.
to revise or correct, as a manuscript.
to delete; eliminate (often fol. by out):
to edit out all references to his family.
to prepare (film, tape, etc.) by deleting, arranging, and splicing material.
Category: Hi-Fi and Audio, Radio and Television, Showbiz
to alter the arrangement of (genes).
Category: Genetics
to modify (computer data or text).
Category: Computers
(n.)an instance or the process of editing.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Hi-Fi and Audio, Radio and Television

Origin of edit:

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

ed′it•a•ble(adj.)

edit.

edited.
edition.
editor.

Princeton's WordNet

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(verb)
supervise the publication of
"The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
edit, cut, edit out(verb)
cut and assemble the components of
"edit film"; "cut recording tape"
edit, blue-pencil, delete(verb)
cut or eliminate
"she edited the juiciest scenes"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

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

Wiktionary

edit(Noun)
A change to the text of a document.
edit(Verb)
To change a text, or a document.
edit(Verb)
To be the editor of a publication.
He edits the Bee.

Origin: influenced by French éditer ‘edit, publish’.

Webster Dictionary

Edit(verb)
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

Translations for edit

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

edit(verb)

to prepare (a book, manuscript, newspaper, programme, film etc) for publication, or for broadcasting etc, especially by correcting, altering, shortening etc.