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US
/ˈɛdət/
]
[ 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
- 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.
- In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
- 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.
- When the tax credit was in place, a person could buy a house for $8,000 down (the bluebook value of a 2005 Dodge Caravan). Tom Silva: Why Should We Care About Housing?
- 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.
- Julian ought to have resigned, then he'd have come out of it with some credit.
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- They will learn more about Churchill than from this diffuse, badly edited book. Times, Sunday Times
