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2 results for Edit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): edit, cut, edit out
  4. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"
    Synonym(s): edit, blue-pencil, delete
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.
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