单词 | editing |
释义 | editing (once / 278 pages) n Editing is when you make changes, especially to a written document, that improve the finished product. A good English teacher will tell you that editing is just as important as writing. Modifying your short story, cutting out some lines and adding others, is one example of editing. When a US senator makes changes to a complicated bill so it will please both Democrats and Republicans, it's also editing. Editing a work or document often makes it shorter, and it almost always makes it better. The Latin root of editing is editionem, "a bringing forth, producing," or "a statement or account." WORD FAMILYedit: edited, editing, editor, edits, subedit+/edited: unedited/editor: editorial, editors, editorship/editorial: editorialise, editorialist, editorialize, editorially, editorials/editorialist: editorialists/editorialize: editorialized, editorializes, editorializing/editorship: editorships/subedit: subediting, subeditor/subeditor: subeditors USAGE EXAMPLESDuring the editing, one of Mills’s producers sent him a note: “No more self-pity.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Professor Kamoun experimented with editing the genes of a tomato plant so that it would no longer be susceptible to a particular disease. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) The museum’s media center will train middle school and high school students how to operate television cameras and editing equipment. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) n putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form Syn|Hypo|Hyper redaction copy editing putting something into a form suitable for a printer cut, deletion, excisionthe omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage correctionsomething substituted for an error revising, rewritingediting that involves writing something again erasurea correction made by erasing rescript, revisal, revise, revisionthe act of rewriting something recasting, rephrasing, rewordingchanging a particular word or phrase piece of writing, writing, written material the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) |
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