edit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕdʹĭt
ipa: /ˈɛdɪt/
enpr: ĕdʹĭt
ipa: /ˈɛdɪt/
ipa: [ˈɛɾɪʔ]
ipa: [ˈɛɾɪt̚]
rhymes: -ɛdɪt
Forms: form: edits
form: editing
form: edited
form: edited
Etymology: Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer (“edit, publish”) and Latin editus.
Senses: examples: text: Your speech is too long. You need to edit it.
glosses: To change a text, or a document.
examples: text: We shot an hour-long interview then edited it down to 45 minutes.
glosses: To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
examples: text: He edits the Chronicle.
text: "How?" responded Patsy; "why, it's easy enough, Uncle. We'll buy a press, hire a printer, and Beth and Louise will help me edit the paper. I'm sure I can exhibit literary talents of a high order, once they are encouraged to sprout. Louise writes lovely poetry and 'stories of human interest,' and Beth—"
ref: 1912, L. Frank Baum, chapter 3, in Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation:
glosses: To be the editor of a publication.
examples: text: Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
examples: text: Today, the technology to edit genomes is limited in the number of changes that can be made at once, which is probably one reason why the Harvard team focused on only 14 genes.
ref: 2015 April 26, Beth Shapiro, “Could we 'de-extinctify' the woolly mammoth”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
examples: text: When the director approached Ms. Adair about his idea for “Boyhood,” shooting footage each of those 12 years, she immediately agreed to take part. The decision was made to edit the film progressively, cutting the scenes from each year after they were completed.
ref: 2014 December 17, Mekado Murphy, “Below the Line: Editing ‘Boyhood’”, in New York Times:
glosses: To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
examples: text: A good rule of thumb is to edit a scene before you think, "Gosh, somebody should edit this scene."
ref: 2015, Matt Fotis, Siobhan O'Hara, The Comedy Improv Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance, New York, NY: Focal Press, →ISBN, page 145:
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
examples: text: The junior can offer to do the voxes, gaining experience and sparing the senior journalist the trouble. Always remember to think how the clips will edit together.
ref: 2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook:
glosses: To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
Synonyms: sense: change a text, document
word: retouch
sense: change a text, document
word: fix up
sense: change a text, document
word: alter
sense: alter a DNA sequence
word: splice
sense: alter a film
word: cut
Derived terms: coedit
copy edit
editability
editable
editathon
edition
editless
editome
editor
editorial
editosome
edit out
evil edit
line edit
misedit
overedit
postedit
preedit
re-edit
self-edit
subedit
unedit