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Editing

noun

1.

Putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form. Synonym: redaction.

Edit

verb

(past & past part. edited; pres. part. editing)

1.

Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting. Synonym: redact. "She edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

2.

Supervise the publication of.

3.

Cut and assemble the components of. Synonyms: cut, edit out. "Cut recording tape"

4.

Cut or eliminate. Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete.

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"Editing" Quotes from Famous Books

... you burst any more of those bags I'll come down and burst your head.—I forgot to say, gentlemen, that Mr. Bibbs has promised to assist in editing the paper; and I will now call upon him to give you an account of what it ...

— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery

... the case. Mr. Forman was engaged in editing a new edition of the "Bacchae," and was apt to be absent-minded in consequence. So Dunstable, with a glad smile, hove the lines into a cupboard in his study to keep company with the Greek numerals which he had done for Mr. Day, and went out ...

— The Politeness of Princes - and Other School Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... would be easy to place much of the blame for the slipshod writings of the undergraduate upon the standards set by his elders outside the colleges. Editors can tell of the endless editing which contributions, even from writers supposed to be professional, will sometimes require. And when such a sentence as the following slips through, and begins an article in a well-known, highly respectable magazine, we ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... Confucius was driven from his home, and wandered about, with a few disciples, until his sixty-ninth year, when he returned to Lu, after accomplishing a work which has borne fruit, such as it is, to the present day. He spent the remaining five years of his life in editing the odes and historic monuments in which the glories of the ancient Chinese dynasty are set forth. He died in his seventy-third year, 478 B.C. There can be no doubt that the success of Confucius has been singularly great, owing especially to the narrow ...

— Chinese Literature • Anonymous

... RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION. The work done by these two friends in discovering and editing was taken up by others, and during the century (1333-1433) dating from the first great "find" of Petrarch the principal additions to Latin literature were made. The monasteries and castles of Europe ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

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