Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
- v. To prepare an edition of for publication: edit a collection of short stories.
- v. To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable: edited her remarks for presentation to a younger audience.
- v. To supervise the publication of (a newspaper or magazine, for example).
- v. To assemble the components of (a film or soundtrack, for example), as by cutting and splicing.
- v. To eliminate; delete: edited the best scene out.
- n. An act or instance of editing: made several last-minute edits for reasons of space.
- edit in To insert during the course of editing: An additional scene was edited in before the show was aired.
- edit out To delete during the course of editing: A controversial scene was edited out of the film.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put forth; issue; publish.
- To make a recension or revision of, as a manuscript or printed book; prepare for publication or other use in a clarified, altered, corrected, or annotated form; collate, verify, elucidate, amend, etc., for general or special use.
- To supervise the preparation of for publication; control, select, or adapt the contents of, as a newspaper, magazine, encyclopedia, or other collective work.
Wiktionary
- n. A change to the text of a document.
- v. To change a text, or a document.
- v. transitive To be the editor of a publication.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cut or eliminate
- v. cut and assemble the components of
- v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- v. supervise the publication of
Etymologies
- Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer ‘edit, publish’. (Wiktionary)
- Partly back-formation from editor and partly from French éditer, to publish (from Latin ēditus, past participle of ēdere : ē-, ex-, ex- + dare, to give). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Nice boots, though. * posts this edit, will type more in another edit*”
“I don't know why GraceAnne's email looks like a YA verse novel; it looks normal in "edit" mode so I don't know how to fix it.”
“Now read on … Volume 2 is in edit, apologies for our tardiness.”
“A copy edit is like hiring a cleaning service to come in and make the place spotless before you start inviting prospective buyers in to see the place.”
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“A line edit is like hiring a painter to put a fresh coat on, inside and out.”
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“A developmental edit is like hiring a structural engineer to fix the place up right.”
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“The Spring 2010 issue of Fine Lifestyles Regina, the local magazine I edit, is now online.”
“While in edit mode, you can pause keywords, adjust your Max CPC, change the destination URL, and switch the match type.”
“After the hard edit is done, I go back and do a faster edit for flow and continuity.”
“The real issue I have with the concept of ad vs. edit is that it puts pbublcists in a position of having to “justify” their roles and — for those of us who are outside publishing houses — our fees to authors.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘edit’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 241 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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TECH - metals and alloys
embrittle, braze, nickel alloy, metallize, Inconel, eutectic, metalize, vapor pressure, corrosion-resistant, alloy, stainless steel, neutron flux and 262 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
driving, implement, Trot, speed, exhale, dope, obstacle, tail, plow, coloration, para, weaving and 678 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
object-oriented p..., ALGOL, validation, Erlang, markup language, Python, hibernate, framework, Apache, template, mapper, Java and 310 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
more:
ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
enclose, resource, meaningful, margin, embedded, publisher, mentor, clip, spelling, appendix, gloss, refer and 188 more...
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The Blacklist
Stop SOPA.
blackout, redact, bowdlerize, censor, remove, conceal, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, control, edit, excise and 24 more...
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EN-HU - homographs
Words that are spelt the same way in English and in Hungarian but have independent origins and mean something entirely different. Not included are proper names (Anya, Ken, Pete - Kiss, Soma, Vince,...
ember, hat, eleven, tag, bolt, far, comb, barack, kit, bent, kin, tan and 41 more...
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Edits
edit, edits, editor, editorialize, Mediterranean, premeditated, credit, creditworthy, limited edition, expedition, discredited, heredity and 54 more...
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Verbs
edit, delete, get, take, abide, be, catch, wash, watch, fly, eat, sleep and 33 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for edit.

oroboros Tide in reverse. Jul 22, 2007