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EDIT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting

Example:

she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages

Synonyms:

edit; redact

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "edit"):

alter; falsify; interpolate (insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby)

cut up; hack (significantly cut up a manuscript)

black out (suppress by censorship as for political reasons)

blank out (cut out, as for political reasons)

copyedit; copyread; subedit (edit and correct (written or printed material))

bracket; bracket out (place into brackets)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't edit the story

Derivation:

editing (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)

editor (a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut or eliminate

Example:

she edited the juiciest scenes

Synonyms:

blue-pencil; delete; edit

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut and assemble the components of

Example:

cut recording tape

Synonyms:

cut; edit; edit out

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will edit the duet

Sense 4

Meaning:

Supervise the publication of

Example:

The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

bring out; issue; publish; put out; release (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

It acts as the catalytic component of the multiprotein editosome complex which mediates apolipoprotein B mRNA editing.

(Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein A/B, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

RNA characteristics include, but are not limited to: RNA sequence; RNA expression levels; RNA processing, e.g., splicing and editing; microRNA levels (ICH Draft Consensus Guideline E15).

(Genomic Biomarker, NCI Thesaurus)

A small RNA involved in post-transcriptional mitochondrial RNA modification (RNA editing) in kinetoplastid protists.

(Guide RNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Each pair was randomly selected to watch a 20-minute edited version of the PG-rated films "The Rocketeer" or "National Treasure" that did or did not contain guns.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

DNA dC->dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3G protein (384 aa, ~46 kDa) is encoded by the human APOBEC3G gene.

(DNA dC to dU-Editing Enzyme APOBEC-3G, NCI Thesaurus)

A facility that is responsible for receiving, editing, processing, analyzing, and storing data generated in a study and that, in addition, has responsibility for coordination of activities required for execution of the study.

(Coordinating Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A database and a set of APIs and tools used to create, edit, control, deploy and find common data elements (CDEs) for metadata consumers and for UML model development.

(Cancer Data Standards Repository, NCI Thesaurus)

Combining gene editing technique called CRISPR with cloning, Harvard scientists created piglets that do not harbor viruses harmful to humans.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)

Father's a railroad president and many times millionnaire, but the son's starving in 'Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)