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US
/ˈɛdət/
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[ UK /ˈɛdɪt/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛdɪt/ ]
VERB
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cut or eliminate
she edited the juiciest scenes -
prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
Edit a book on lexical semantics
she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages -
supervise the publication of
The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years -
cut and assemble the components of
edit film
cut recording tape
How To Use edit In A Sentence
- These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
- In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
- Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
- They've updated a lot of the entries in the most recent edition of the encyclopaedia.
- If you unzip our sample document and load content.xml into a text editor, you should notice a few things.
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
- He can still credit marvels, the little miracles and epiphanies that rise out of our daily lives.
- Many freshmen have to take remedial English classes for which they receive no credit.
- Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2