Omitting

4 definitions found

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

  Omit \O*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Omitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Omitting}.] [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see {Ob-} + mittere
     to cause to go, let go, send. See {Mission}.]
     1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to
        drop.
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              These personal comparisons I omit.    --Bacon.
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     2. To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave
        undone; to neglect; to pass over.
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              Her father omitted nothing in her education that
              might make her the most accomplished woman of her
              age.                                  --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  omit
       v 1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The
            bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off
            the top piece" [syn: {exclude}, {except}, {leave out}, {leave
            off}, {take out}] [ant: {include}]
       2: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?";
          "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
          [syn: {neglect}, {pretermit}, {drop}, {miss}, {leave out},
           {overlook}, {overleap}] [ant: {attend to}]
       [also: {omitting}, {omitted}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  omitting
       See {omit}

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

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "omitting":
     aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, ex, except, except for,
     excepting, excluding, exclusive of, leaving out, let alone,
     outside of, precluding, save, save and except, saving, than,
     unless, without