re-editn.
/ˈriːˌɛdɪt/, U.S. /ˈriˌɛdət/ An act of altering a text, film, or piece of music so as to produce a new version; the new version so produced.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > a recording > specific
pen recording1923
re-edit1924
air check1938
rough edit1958
1924 Michigan Law Rev. 23 206 It may fairly be said that the re-edit has increased the usefulness of the text as a reference manual.
1950 Public Opinion Q. 14 12 Schedules edited and coded in the field will be re-edited and re-coded centrally and compared with a control group of schedules for which both the original edit and the re-edit (and coding) will be done centrally.
1986 Guardian 28 Nov. 16/7 [The] work is a re-edit of an American edition which had included a juicily-titled essay.
1993 Chicago Tribune 16 Apr. ii. 3/3 [The film] is undergoing reshoots and re-edits to tone down one of the sex scenes.
2002 F. Broughton & B. Brewster How to DJ (Properly) 238 A DJ whose career was based on a series of incendiary re-edits.
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re-editv.
/ˌriːˈɛdɪt/, /rɪˈɛdɪt/, U.S. /riˈɛdət/ transitive. To edit again (in various senses of the verb); to make a new edition of.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > editing for publication > edit [verb (transitive)] > re-edit
re-edit1785
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > edit [verb (transitive)]
re-edit1785
cut1913
edit1913
to cut in1928
cheat1929
cross-cut1933
intercut1953
1785 A. C. Schomberg Hist. & Chronol. View Rom. Law 59 Of the more modern editions, none perhaps are comparable with that..which was three years ago re-edited in a very splendid manner at Lyons, in 3 vols.
1807 R. Southey Spec. Eng. Poets I. p. vii When Dr. Aikin began to re-edite Johnson's collection [of the poets].
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 42 A book like the history of the French Academy..which M. Charles Livet has lately re-edited.
1919 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 22 Sept. 6/5 One of his newest releases is ‘The Mother and the Law’, which is the modern episode in Intolerance enlarged and re-edited.
1963 L. Marder His Exits & His Entrances i. 20 Thomas Bowdler found Shakespeare's obscenity such that in 1807 and 1818 he felt obliged to re-edit the works for family reading.
1993 Chicago Tribune 16 Apr. ii. 3/3 Sources say..the trailer is being re-edited to reduce the sexuality.
2004 Mod. Lang. Rev. 99 785 There is also much useful discussion..of Jules Verne's early theatrical works, a number of which have been re-edited over the last decade.
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re-ˈediting n.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > editing for publication > [noun] > re-editing
re-editing1822
re-edition1881
1822 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 137/1 Such..is the book before us, a work fortunately consigned for re-editing to a Gentleman, who had [etc.].
1856 Biblical Repertory Oct. 728 He had not the means of going much beyond a mere re-editing of the chronological lists.
1929 D. O. Selznick in R. Behlmer Memo from D. O. Selznick (1972) 22 I feel confident that you and Cooper will both agree that the re-editing has really been a tremendous game.
1967 Rev. Eng. Stud. 18 238 No successor to Rollins was able to undertake the re-editing of the three volumes.
2007 Live Design (Nexis) 1 Dec. 38 We played with them, did a little reediting, and treated them to give them what we hope is a fresh new look, complementing them with lighting.
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