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/əˈdɪʃən, ɪˈdɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɪdˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɪdˈɪʃən/ ]
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something a little different from others of the same type
an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone
the boy is a younger edition of his father
an experimental version of the night fighter
a variant of the same word -
all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time
it was too late for the morning edition
the first edition appeared in 1920
they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings -
an issue of a newspaper
he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times - the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published
How To Use edition 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
- They've updated a lot of the entries in the most recent edition of the encyclopaedia.
- In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
- Morrissey and the Duranies are back in the charts; the 20th anniversary edition of Purple Rain was released last week; and Band Aid are already being tipped as a dead cert for the Christmas number one spot.
- This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
- In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating. Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
- “Images of the Gods” is a casebound edition of 640 pages with more than 1,800 color illustrations. Review: Images of the Gods-Khmer Mythology in Cambodia, Laos & Thailand by Vittorio Roveda | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
- Month after month our patience has gone unrewarded until the latest edition of the magazine, when we've managed to bag a whopper.
- As a postscript your readers may have noticed that this individual has been allowed to have two letters published in the same edition, although she describes herself differently in each letter.
