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   Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
         n 1: United States novelist (1862-1937) [syn: {Wharton}, {Edith
               Wharton}, {Edith Newbold Jones Wharton}]

English Dictionary: edition by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
editing
n
  1. putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
    Synonym(s): editing, redaction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
edition
n
  1. the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published
  2. all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings"
  3. an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times"
  4. something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"
    Synonym(s): version, variant, variation, edition
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
edutainment
n
  1. entertainment that is intended to be educational
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Epeira \[d8]E*pei"ra\, n. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider ({E.
      diadema}). They spin geometrical webs. See {Garden spider}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Edit \Ed"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Edited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Editing}.] [F. [82]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.
  
               Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
                                                                              --Enfield.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Edition \E*di"tion\, n. [L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F.
      [82]dition. See {Edit}.]
      1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain
            editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of
            Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.
  
      2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published
            at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Editioner \E*di`tion*er\, n.
      An editor. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ethidene \Eth"i*dene\, n. [From {Ether}.] (Chem.)
      Ethylidene. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ethylidene \E*thyl"i*dene\ (Chem.)
      An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, {C2H4}
      metameric with ethylene but written thus, {CH3.CH} to
      distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, {CH2.CH2}. Its
      compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also
      {ethidene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ethidene \Eth"i*dene\, n. [From {Ether}.] (Chem.)
      Ethylidene. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ethylidene \E*thyl"i*dene\ (Chem.)
      An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, {C2H4}
      metameric with ethylene but written thus, {CH3.CH} to
      distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, {CH2.CH2}. Its
      compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also
      {ethidene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trigenic \Tri*gen"ic\, a. [Pref. tri- + gen- + -ic. So named in
      reference to its composition, it being supposed to contain
      the radicals of three molecules of cyanic acid.] (Chem.)
      Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, {C4H7N3O2},
      obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold
      aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly
      acid taste and faint smell; -- called also {ethidene- [or]
      ethylidene-biuret}.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   edutainment
  
      Interactive education and entertainment services
      or software, usually supplied commercially via a cable network
      or on {CD-ROM}.
  
      (1995-03-30)
  
  
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