EDIT
Dictionary entry overview: What does edit mean?
• EDIT (verb)
The verb EDIT has 4 senses:
1. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
2. supervise the publication of
3. cut and assemble the components of
4. cut or eliminate
Familiarity information: EDIT used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• EDIT (verb)
Meaning:
Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
edit; redact
Context examples:
Edit a book on lexical semantics / she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages
Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "edit"):
alter; falsify; interpolate (insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby)
cut up; hack (significantly cut up a manuscript)
black out (suppress by censorship as for political reasons)
blank out (cut out, as for political reasons)
copyedit; copyread; subedit (edit and correct (written or printed material))
bracket; bracket out (place into brackets)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They won't edit the story
Meaning:
Supervise the publication of
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years
Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):
bring out; issue; publish; put out; release (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cut and assemble the components of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
edit out; edit; cut
Context examples:
edit film / cut recording tape
Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They will edit the duet
Meaning:
Cut or eliminate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
blue-pencil; delete; edit
Context example:
she edited the juiciest scenes
Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):
censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
