edit

3 definitions found

edit - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Edit \Ed"it\ ([e^]d"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr.
     & vb. n. Editing.] [F. ['e]diter, or L. editus, p. p. of
     edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give.
     See Date a point of time.]
     To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for
     publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter
     of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
                                                    --Enfield.
     [1913 Webster]

edit - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  edit
      v 1: 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" [syn: edit, redact]
      2: supervise the publication of; "The same family has been
         editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
      3: cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut
         recording tape" [syn: edit, cut, edit out]
      4: cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn:
         edit, blue-pencil, delete]

edit - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "edit":
     abbreviate, abridge, adapt, alter, amend, annotate, arrange,
     assemble, blip, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor,
     change, clean up, comment upon, commentate, compile, compress,
     condense, copy, copy out, correct, crop, cross out, cut, cut out,
     delete, draft, draw up, edit out, emend, emendate, enface, engross,
     erase, expunge, expurgate, gloss, inscribe, kill, make a recension,
     make an edition, make out, modify, omit, order, organize, pen,
     pencil, polish, prepare, push the pen, put in writing, recense,
     record, rectify, redact, redraft, reduce, remark upon, reorder,
     reorganize, rephrase, rescind, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite,
     rub out, scribe, scrive, scroll, select, shorten, spill ink,
     spoil paper, strike, strike off, strike out, style, superscribe,
     touch up, trace, transcribe, type, void, work over, write,
     write down, write out