Edit

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Edit \Ed"it\ ([e^]d"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Edited}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Editing}.] [F. ['e]diter, or L. editus, p. p. of
     edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give.
     See {Date} a point of time.]
     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.
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           Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
                                                    --Enfield.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  edit
       v 1: prepare for publication or presentation by correcting,
            revising, or adapting; "Edit a a book on lexical
            semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so
            as to omit the most personal passages" [syn: {redact}]
       2: supervise the publication of; "The same family has been
          editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
       3: cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut
          recording tape" [syn: {cut}, {edit out}]
       4: cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: {blue-pencil},
           {delete}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "edit":
     abbreviate, abridge, adapt, alter, amend, annotate, arrange,
     assemble, blip, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor,
     change, clean up, comment upon, commentate, compile, compress,
     condense, copy, copy out, correct, crop, cross out, cut, cut out,
     delete, draft, draw up, edit out, emend, emendate, enface, engross,
     erase, expunge, expurgate, gloss, inscribe, kill, make a recension,
     make an edition, make out, modify, omit, order, organize, pen,
     pencil, polish, prepare, push the pen, put in writing, recense,
     record, rectify, redact, redraft, reduce, remark upon, reorder,
     reorganize, rephrase, rescind, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite,
     rub out, scribe, scrive, scroll, select, shorten, spill ink,
     spoil paper, strike, strike off, strike out, style, superscribe,
     touch up, trace, transcribe, type, void, work over, write,
     write down, write out