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

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