Editor

4 definitions found

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

  Editor \Ed"i*tor\, n. [L., that which produces, from edere to
     publish: cf. F. ['e]diteur.]
     One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends,
     revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc.,
     for publication.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  editor
       n 1: 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) [syn:
            {editor in chief}]
       2: (computer science) a program designed to perform such
          editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or
          deletion of data [syn: {editor program}]

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

  150 Moby Thesaurus words for "editor":
     allegorist, annotator, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept,
     bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage,
     bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec,
     bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector,
     book printer, book publisher, book reviewer, book salesman,
     book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker,
     bookman, bookseller, bookworm, captious critic, carper, cataloger,
     caviler, censor, censurer, chief librarian, cicerone, city editor,
     clarifier, cognoscente, collector, college editor, columnist,
     commentator, commenter, compiler, connoisseur, copy chief,
     copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, critic,
     criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cryptanalyst,
     cryptographer, cryptologist, cub reporter, curator, decoder,
     definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast,
     dictionary editor, dragoman, editor-in-chief, editorial writer,
     editorialist, emendator, emender, euhemerist, executive editor,
     exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent,
     expositor, expounder, faultfinder, feature editor,
     foreign correspondent, gazetteer, glossarist, glossographer,
     go-between, guide, hermeneut, interpreter, interviewer, journalist,
     juvenile editor, leader writer, leg man, lexicographer, librarian,
     library director, literary critic, man of letters, managing editor,
     metaphrast, muckraker, news analyst, news editor, newsman,
     newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, oneirocritic,
     own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, paraphrast,
     permissions editor, philobiblist, pressman, printer,
     production editor, publicist, publisher, reader, redactor,
     reference editor, reference librarian, reporter, reviewer, reviser,
     rewrite man, rewriter, scholiast, slotman, smellfungus, sob sister,
     social critic, special correspondent, sports editor, subeditor,
     textbook editor, textual critic, trade editor, translator,
     war correspondent, writer
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  EDITOR, n.  A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos,
  Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely
  virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the
  virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the
  splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he
  resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the
  tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as
  the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. 
  Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of
  thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the
  Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the
  editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to
  suit.  And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard
  the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines
  of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack
  up some pathos.
  
      O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought,
          A gilded impostor is he.
      Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought,
                  His crown is brass,
                  Himself an ass,
          And his power is fiddle-dee-dee.
      Prankily, crankily prating of naught,
      Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought.
          Public opinion's camp-follower he,
          Thundering, blundering, plundering free.
                      Affected,
                          Ungracious,
                      Suspected,
                          Mendacious,
      Respected contemporaree!
                                                        J.H. Bumbleshook