OMIT (omitted, omitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: omitted    , omitting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does omit mean? 

• OMIT (verb)
  The verb OMIT has 2 senses:

1. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

2. leave undone or leave out

  Familiarity information: OMIT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OMIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they omit    ... he / she / it omits   
Past simple: omitted   
Past participle: omitted   
-ing form: omitting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out

Context example:

Leave off the top piece

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

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

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

elide (leave or strike out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

omissible (capable of being left out)

omission (a mistake resulting from neglect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Leave undone or leave out

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit

Context example:

The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten

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

forget (forget to do something)

jump; pass over; skip; skip over (bypass)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

omissible (capable of being left out)

omission (a mistake resulting from neglect)

omission (neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something)

omissive (characterized by omissions)

 Context examples 

‘And under,’ he cried. ‘You have omitted the “and under.”’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. The total effect of your proceeding has been to give the alarm everywhere and yet to discover nothing.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indignation again prevailed over prudence: I replied sharply, Hitherto I have often omitted to fasten the bolt: I did not think it necessary.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And now—what had she done, or what had she omitted to do, to merit such a change?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He omitted no opportunity of being with them, threw himself in their way, called at all hours; but I need not be particular on this subject.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought might redound to the honour of my country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have omitted to mention it, by the by.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I dare say,” replied Mrs. Weston, smiling, “that I thought so then;—but since we have parted, I can never remember Emma's omitting to do any thing I wished.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I have had no answer, and I very much fear that I must have omitted to put my name at the end.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)