editor

ed·i·tor

E0041200 (ĕd′ĭ-tər)n.1. One who edits, especially as an occupation.2. One who writes editorials.3. A device for editing film, consisting basically of a splicer and viewer.4. Computers A program used to edit text or data files.

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[Late Latin ēditor, publisher, from Latin ēditus, past participle of ēdere, to publish; see edit.]

editor

(ˈɛdɪtə) n1. (Journalism & Publishing) a person who edits written material for publication2. (Professions) a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical3. (Journalism & Publishing) a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical: the sports editor. 4. (Film) films a. a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a filmb. a device for editing film, including a viewer and a splicer5. (Broadcasting) television radio a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme6. (Computer Science) a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer[C17: from Late Latin: producer, exhibitor, from ēdere to give out, publish, from ē- out + dāre to give] ˈeditorˌship n

ed•i•tor

(ˈɛd ɪ tər)

n. 1. a person responsible for the editorial part of a publishing firm or a publication. 2. the supervisor of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.: the sports editor. 3. a person who edits material for publication, films, etc. 4. a device for editing film or magnetic tape. 5. text editor. [1640–50; < Medieval Latin, Late Latin: publisher]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	editor - a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)editor in chiefanthologist - an editor who makes selections for an anthologyart editor - an editor who is responsible for illustrations and layouts in printed mattercopy editor, copyreader, text editor - an editor who prepares text for publicationsubeditor - an assistant editorbowdleriser, bowdlerizer, expurgator - a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages; "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator"managing editor - the editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazinenewspaper editor - the editor of a newspaperredact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter - someone who puts text into appropriate form for publicationskilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
	2.	editor - (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of dataeditor programcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresapplication program, applications programme, application - a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different word processing applications"linkage editor - an editor program that creates one module from several by resolving cross-references among the modulestext editor - (computer science) an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files

editor

noun compiler, writer, journalist, reviser the editor of a women's magazine

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edit

(ˈedit) verb to prepare (a book, manuscript, newspaper, programme, film etc) for publication, or for broadcasting etc, especially by correcting, altering, shortening etc. 編輯 编辑edition (iˈdiʃn) noun a number of copies of a book etc printed at a time, or the form in which they are produced. the third edition of the book; a paperback edition; the evening edition of the newspaper. 版次，版本 版，版本 ˈeditor noun1. a person who edits books etc. a dictionary editor. 編輯 编辑2. a person who is in charge of (part of) a newspaper, journal etc. The editor of The Times; She has been appointed fashion editor. 主編(報紙、雜誌等的) 编辑ˌediˈtorial (-ˈtoː-) adjective of or belonging to editors. editorial work/staff. 編輯的 编辑的 noun the leading article in a newspaper. 社論 社论

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