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 Dictionary entry overview: What does edit mean? 

• EDIT (verb)
  The verb EDIT has 4 senses:

1. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting

2. supervise the publication of

3. cut and assemble the components of

4. cut or eliminate

  Familiarity information: EDIT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they edit    ... he / she / it edits   
Past simple: edited   
Past participle: edited   
-ing form: editing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

edit; redact

Context example:

she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "edit"):

alter; falsify; interpolate (insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby)

cut up; hack (significantly cut up a manuscript)

black out (suppress by censorship as for political reasons)

blank out (cut out, as for political reasons)

copyedit; copyread; subedit (edit and correct (written or printed material))

bracket; bracket out (place into brackets)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't edit the story

Derivation:

editing (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Supervise the publication of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

bring out; issue; publish; put out; release (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut and assemble the components of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

cut; edit; edit out

Context example:

cut recording tape

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will edit the duet

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cut or eliminate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blue-pencil; delete; edit

Context example:

she edited the juiciest scenes

Hypernyms (to "edit" is one way to...):

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes DNA dC->dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3F protein, is involved in the negative regulation of viral infection.

(APOBEC3F wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

DNA dC->dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3F (373 aa, ~45 kDa) is encoded by the human APOBEC3F gene.

(DNA dC to dU-Editing Enzyme APOBEC-3F, NCI Thesaurus)

Working with a melanoma tumor cell line, the researchers used a gene editing technology called CRISPR that “knocks out,” or stops the expression, of individual genes in cancer cells.

(A new study identifies essential genes for cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

This allele, which encodes DNA dC->dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3G protein, may be involved in cellular growth regulation, cell cycle modulation and viral infectivity inhibition.

(APOBEC3G wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The full moon lunar eclipse of January 10 will bring closure to a matter you’ve long worked on and also points to something you are writing, editing, speaking, researching, translating, or coding.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The zebrafish is better suited to larger scale gene editing because about 70 percent of zebrafish genes appear to have human counterparts.

(A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies, NIH)

Duties include accepts/rejects membership to an account, assigns and edits access permissions and resets/revokes user passwords.

(Account Administrator, NCI Thesaurus)

The primary product of gene transcription of the fourth gene is a small glycoprotein (sGP), while RNA editing allows expression of full length glycoprotein.

(Ebola Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Vif has been shown to bind to HIV genomic RNA and CEM15 has homology to cytidine deaminases, enzymes that edit RNA.

(HIV-1 Infection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The primary product of the fourth gene is the GP1,2 glycoprotein, which does not require cotranscriptional editing.

(Marburgvirus, NCI Thesaurus)