edit

1 prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" [syn: 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: cut, edit out]

4 cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: blue-pencil, delete]

English

Etymology

, influenced by French éditer ‘edit, publish’.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛdɪt

Noun

1. A change to the text of a document.

Translations

Verb

1. To change a text, or a document.

   I want to edit the picture to remove the red eye.

   Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.

Derived terms

• editorial

Related terms

• editor
• editable

Synonyms

• retouch, fix up, alter

Translations

Anagrams

• diet
• tide
• tied

Edit means to revise, correct, or improve, and may also refer to:

• Edit (musician), an American electronic DJ and producer
• Edit (application), a simple text editor for the Apple Macintosh.
• Edit (MS-DOS), MS-DOS Editor, a plain-text editor for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows
• "Edit" (song), a song by Regina Spektor from her 2006 album Begin to Hope
• A form of the female given name Edith

See also

• Editor (disambiguation)
• Editing
• Editorial

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