edit.n.1
As a graphic abbreviation: = edition n. 1a.Chiefly used in catalogues, advertisements, etc.
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society > communication > book > edition > [noun]
edition?a1475
edit.1574
ed.1713
society > communication > printing > publishing > a publication > [noun] > issue or edition
edition?a1475
print1535
edit.1574
issue1849
ish1942
1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. viii. 386 In S. Jeroms tyme there wer Metropolitanes, Archbishops, &c. as you may read in the defense of the Apol. edit. 2. pag. 121.
1694 J. Bullord Excellent Coll. Bks.: Library Eminent Serjeant at Law 10 Graftons Chronicle of England the best edit. wants 1 leaf at the beginning.
1738 J. Worrall Bibliotheca Legum (ed. 4) 27 Spelman's..Glossary... The former Edit. contains but half the Alphabet, and of little Value.
1859 S. A. Allibone Crit. Dict. Eng. Lit. I. 771 Cat. of the early edits. of Shakespeare's Plays, &c.
1908 Eng. Catal. Bks. 1907 202/2 The Dream of Gerontius. New edit. With intro. specially written for the edit., by E. B. (L.).
2002 Amer. Philatelist Jan. 7/1 Dietz Confederate States Cat./Handbook, Deluxe Edit. The book every CSA Collector must have.
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editn.2
/ˈɛdɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛdət/ 1. An act or instance of editing something; a change or correction made as a result of editing. Also: the action or process of editing something.Recorded earliest in edit room n. at Compounds 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > act or spell of editing
edit1917
rough edit1958
1917 Recruiters' Bull. (U.S. Marine Corps) Dec. 15/2 Visualize, if you will, the edit rooms of a big newspaper at 2 a.m.
1940 Minicam Photogr. Feb. 117/1 If there are more than a few bad scenes which must be removed entirely.., it is a good plan to make a rough edit before going further.
1976 Gramophone Oct. 627/1 A clumsy edit at bar 18 in No. 13 is also apparent.
1999 R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts Episode 1. Foreword 7 Once you enter the edit, the script's forgotten—you're building an episode out of the pictures and the plot, the stuff you've already got on screen.
2014 C. Seife Virtual Unreality ii. 34 Dozens upon dozens of edits to Wikipedia biographies were apparently altered by congressional staffers.
2. A function or mode of an apparatus, program, etc., which allows or enables editing; the button or control used for this.Recorded earliest in edit switch (see Compounds 1).
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > playback equipment > specific facility
fast forward1947
edit1953
pause button1957
pause control1957
freeze-frame1961
pause1965
review1969
slo-mo1969
auto-fade1977
cue1978
society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > editor > editing facility
screen editing1926
edit1953
1953 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 72 i. 584/3 This edit switch has three positions, center for stop, right for forward, and [printed ane] reverse for backward.
1955 Magn. Film & Tape Recording June 47/1 The smaller lever controls the fast forward and rewind; the larger the functions such as run, cue, edit and stop.
1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xxxviii. 968 Features such as program edit..are common on today's CNC [sc. computerized numerical control] machines.
2004 Keyboard Feb. 58/2 More often than not, highlighting it with the cursor and pressing ‘Edit’ again will bring up another editor still.
3. A particular version of an audio or video recording, text, etc., made as a result of editing it. Also occasionally (and in earliest use) as a mass noun: the result of editing, edited material. Frequently with modifying word.See also assemble edit n., radio edit n.
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1968 N.Y. Times 1 July (Late City ed.) 51/4 New York Magazine has been running so light on ads recently that a friend of the ad director said, ‘It's just like Channel 13, just uninterrupted good edit.’
1970 New Yorker 7 Mar. 96 At times the movie feels like a travelogue... Luckily, the fast edit keeps the action from sagging.
1996 Music Week 27 Apr. (RM Record Mirror Dance Update) 9/5 The extended ‘Monster Mix’ stays true to the edit whereas the ‘Deep Mix’ opts for loads of rising wooshes and crowd cheers.
2015 R. Ben-Ghiat Ital. Fascism's Empire Cinema viii. 247 Inset into this article..we find an homage to Rossellini written after seeing an early edit of Un pilota ritorna.
4. A selection of clothes, accessories, beauty products, etc., from a particular season or collection, esp. as chosen by a fashion buyer, editor, or designer.
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1993 Elle Oct. 190/1 The clothes he chose for them [sc. models]..represent the most graphically striking the new store has to offer. ‘What sets Barneys apart..is the incredible edit. You end up with a focused point of view.’
1999 Independent (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Features section) 8 Just swing by the store for the best edit of zebra, tiger, leopard and dalmatian print boots, stiletto sandals and under-arm bags.
2011 Harper's Bazaar (U.K. ed.) July 141/1 A breathtaking array of..brands, all handpicked to form an exciting edit of the world's best products.
Compounds
C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘designating an editing function, mode, etc., or the button or control used for this’, as in edit button, edit function, edit mode, etc.
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1953 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 72 i. 584/3 This edit switch has three positions, center for stop, right for forward, ane [sic] reverse for backward.
1960 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture & Television Engineers Mar. 164/3 Edit sync is applied to the cue track of the video-tape recorder.
1986 Keyboard Player Apr. 3/3 The sophisticated edit facilities allow complicated musical forms to be created.
1993 Camcorder User Mar. 61/3 The M3's Edit button allows pre-roll editing to be carried out using the AV lead supplied and any Master Edit Control-equipped JVC video recorder.
2001 A. Harris Palm Programming for Absolute Beginner vii. 207 Once you click the screen, you automatically go into edit mode for the new label.
2015 J. Lambert Microsoft Office for iPad xi. 360 (caption) Tap edit at the top of the page navigator to activate the edit functions.
C2.
edit point the point between two sections of a film or audio recording at which a cut or insertion is made during editing.
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1961 Cinemeditor Oct. 3/2 The edit point lies somewhere within the ninety frames encompassed by the four images.
2019 @_inside 21 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 29 Aug. 2019) I put a marker on every single edit point while we record.
edit room n. a room where editing takes place; (now esp.) a room in a film or television studio where films or programmes are edited; a cutting room; = editing room n. at editing n. Compounds 1b.
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1917 Recruiters' Bull. (U.S. Marine Corps) Dec. 15/2 Visualize, if you will, the edit rooms of a big newspaper at 2 a.m.
1969 db Aug. 12/3 The extensive studio facilities required for the [Radio Station] WINS all-news format consists of four similar control rooms with associated studios, and two edit rooms.
2019 Central Queensland News (Nexis) 5 July 40 The biggest challenge was in the edit room, having to cut scenes that I was so proud of.., but that we just didn't have time for.
edit suite n. a room or area containing a set of equipment used for editing film or video material; such a set of equipment; = editing suite n. at editing n. Compounds 1b.
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1982 Financial Times 5 Oct. 22/8 Teletape Video is supplying a computerised post production edit suite, costing over £1m to the Nigerian Television Authority.
1988 J. Burder Technique editing 16mm Films (ed. 5) ix. 22 The master video (A) can be recorded on a videocassette with a time code (B) and edited in a video edit suite (C).
2001 P. Reizin Dumping Hilary? (2002) i. 13 One [sc. a cigarette] after lunch. More during the afternoon. Loads more if I'm writing or in the edit suite.
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editv.
/ˈɛdɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛdət/ 1.
a. transitive. To prepare an edition of written work by (an author) for publication, by selecting and arranging the contents, adding commentary, etc.; to prepare (an edition of written work by one or more authors) in this manner; to prepare an edition of (such work) in this manner.
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1699 [implied in: S. Whately Answer Late Bk. written against Dr. Bentley 190 The Editing of a spurious and contemptible Author. (at editing n. 1a)].
1704 Step to Lobby 20 As fit a Parson, on my Credit, As ever T——son could Edit.
?1770 J. Fenn tr. Euclid Elements Geom. (title page) Euclid's elements of geometry... Edited by Joseph Fenn.
1810 (title) A vocabulary Persian, Arabic and English abridged from the quarto edition of Richardson's dictionary as edited by Charles Wilkins.
1893 R. Le Gallienne Retrosp. Rev. (1896) II. 21 A teetotaler, however admirable in other ways, is not the fit person to edit Burns.
1912 Bookman Dec. 36/1 Here..are the letters..edited by a man who has much in common with Lamb himself, and has edited his work with a scholarly accuracy..that makes his notes pleasantly informing.
2009 Daily Tel. 22 July 27/5 After his death, she took it upon herself to be the guardian of his flame, editing volumes of his poetry.
b. transitive. More generally: to prepare (a piece of writing, copy for a newspaper or magazine, etc.) for publication or use by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. Now also intransitive.copy-edit, script-edit: see the first elements.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > editing for publication > edit [verb (transitive)]
editor1825
redact1829
edit1867
1867 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 15 Mar. 44/4 A very large force is necessary, or at least employed, in every New York newspaper office to edit the news.
1903 E. L. Shuman Pract. Journalism 18 Each of these departments has a force of copy-readers, whose duty it is to edit the matter written by the reporters.
1990 Premiere July 12/1 The center's film magazine published an ‘interview’ with me that was..edited to imply that Roger & Me was not accurate.
1993 A. Fiderer Teaching Writing: Workshop Approach 51/1 While looking at one or two pages of my edited draft, students brainstorm a list of things to look for when editing (capitals, punctuation, spelling, paragraphs).
2018 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 May a23 He worked behind a desk in Boston for three months, editing copy for an online news service.
c. transitive. To prepare (a film, audio recording, television or radio programme, etc.) by selecting and arranging its contents, cutting and splicing material, etc. Also intransitive. Cf. cut v. 21e.Cf. assemble-edit v.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > edit
edit1913
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > edit [verb (transitive)]
re-edit1785
cut1913
edit1913
to cut in1928
cheat1929
cross-cut1933
intercut1953
1913 [implied in: Standard 6 Nov. 4/6 The smaller theatres on the company's premises are used for film editing. (at editing n. 2)].
1914 Pop. Electr. & Mod. Mech. Nov. 507/1 He [sc. the motion picture director]..edits the film already taken.
1970 Films in Rev. Nov. 564/2 It is at the moviola that the music editor determines how he will edit, where to splice, and what the timing sheets, click sheets and click tracts will contain.
1990 Video Maker July 16/2 Audiofile..allows us to expand, shorten, duplicate or otherwise edit the audio track without physically touching the tape.
2005 Independent 25 July 28/3 His childhood friend from New Jersey..landed the job of editing a trailer for the movie star's latest film.
d. transitive. To modify or alter (editable data, text, etc.) on a computer.
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1958 C. G. Gotlieb & J. N. P. Hume High-speed Data Processing ix. 187 The need for inserting or deleting characters occurs most frequently in editing information for output or for transfer from one medium to another.
1979 Software Pract. Feb. 121 Building a screen editor as a front end to a line editor..permits one computer to edit another's files.
2013 B. Green & S. Seshadri AngularJS i. 6 Somewhere in the app we'll need to show the user's shopping cart and let him edit it.
e. transitive. To make modifications or improvements to (a digital image or graphic) using a computer.
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1971 R. S. Ledley et al. in Proc. 9th Ann. IEEE Region III Convent. 369 MACDAC can enable a computer operator to edit the pictures prior to their computer analysis.
1987 Daily Mail 22 Sept. 22/2 The new ‘Image Studio’ software allows artists to retouch and edit photographs on screen.
2005 Digital Photographer No. 31. 34/2 He integrates digital into his post-processing workflow by editing his images on his PC.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > publish [verb (transitive)]
to put forth1482
to put out1529
to set forth1535
promulge1539
to set abroada1555
present1559
to set out1559
utter1561
divulge1566
publish1573
print?1594
emit1650
edition1715
edit1727
to give to the world1757
to get out1786
to send forth1849
to bring out1878
run1879
release1896
pub1932
1727 Northern Heroine Introd. 2 I am in hopes the Publication of the following Account of the last Czar's Extraction, and the late Czarina's Rise,..will be entertaining to an English Reader; what may possibly recommend it, is the Novelty of the Circumstances, and the Place mentioned where it was Edited.
1791 W. Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. II. 367 [Abelard] wrote many philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
3. transitive. To be or act as the editor in charge of (a newspaper, magazine, or similar publication, or of a particular section or aspect of this). Cf. editor n. 3a, 3b.See also art edit vb. at art n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > communication > journalism > editing > edit [verb (transitive)]
edit1793
1793 Crit. Rev. July 359 The chapter..furnishes a sufficient comment..on his ability to perform even the humble drudgery of editing a magazine.
1803 R. Southey Let. 14 Feb. in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 454 Everybody knows that William Taylor edits the ‘Iris’.
1891 Writer Oct. 227/2 Mrs. Heaton has been editing the woman's page of the New York Recorder.
1956 Times 29 Nov. 15/1 Waldemar Bernhard Kaempffert..edited Popular Science Monthly for five years from 1915.
1986 PC Mag. 28 Jan. 99/3 Craig L. Stark is PC Magazine's technical editor. He edits the Power User column.
2000 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. a6/2 At the University of Toronto she edited the campus newspaper.
4. transitive. In extended use: to examine and modify (one's speech, thoughts, etc.), as if acting as an editor. Later also: to examine or assess (one's attributes or possessions) so as to select and remove what is unwanted or superfluous.
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1904 C. Everett Nano iii. 22 ‘I am very sorry you have said that..,’ was her only comment. ‘I suppose I should edit my thoughts before passing them to any one,’ I replied.
1971 G. Gould Let. 5 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 134 Stokowski..thinks paragraphically, edits himself en route, and signals the end of each answer by giving an up-beat cue to his interviewer.
1997 Times 2 Aug. (Mag. section) 34/1 You have to edit your life constantly... It's about making sure that if you bring something new into the house you get rid of something else.
2013 Gulf Times (Nexis) 17 Sept. Jack always said he ‘edited’ his team... He wanted to choose the top people around him.
5. transitive. Molecular Biology. To alter (a gene or other nucleotide sequence) by the insertion, deletion, or replacement of one or more nucleotides. Also (occasionally) intransitive: to carry out such alteration.
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1969 Univ. Chicago Mag. Mar. 32/2 We can examine the DNA ribbon in the gene causing hemophilia. It may be possible to edit this ribbon—actually cut into the nucleotides and rearrange them in proper order.
1981 New Scientist 14 May 421/1 Nuclear transcripts are heavily ‘edited’ before they are allowed to move from the nucleus into the cytoplasm and engage with the cellular machinery from which proteins are produced.
1991 S. F. Mason Chem. Evol. xii. 226 These synonymous mutations are not edited out by natural selection and are expected to appear with the highest frequency in a set of comparable DNA or transcribed mRNA sequences.
2015 N.Y. Times 24 Apr. (Late ed.) a3/1 They fear..the birth of babies whose every cell has been altered by scientists... This could happen well before researchers know enough about the consequences of editing genes, before they know how to edit safely.
Phrasal verbs
With adverbs in specialized senses. to edit in to edit out
transitive. To insert (material) into a text, film, audio or video recording, etc., by editing.
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1961 Encounter May 49/2 Her [sc. Ada Leverson's] frequent use of film scenario devices..‘editing in’ scenes and themes apparently unrelated to the one that, in realistic terms, she is just then evoking.
1977 Daily Tel. 31 Dec. 9/1 How much of the elaborate punctuation of Don Quixote was written by Cervantes, how much edited in later on, I do not know.
2019 @butt_jungle 23 July in twitter.com (accessed 4 Sept. 2019) I bet she just edited in a shot of a different hotdog at the end.
transitive. To remove (material) from a text, film, audio or video recording, etc., by editing; to remove or omit (something unwanted or superfluous).
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1896 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 3 June 4/6 The Boston Herald..as a rule is very careful to edit out anything that can be construed as unfavorable to the present ruinous gold policy.
1953 Jet 26 Mar. 55 His part..was edited out of the film.
1984 Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 4 Dec. 51 To make a ‘dub’ recording, you..edit out all the sound except the rhythm section. Then you remix this however you choose.
2003 C. Goodman Seduction of Water (2004) 125 My mother always paused when she told me this story. Was she editing out the memory of that horrible death?
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