(edits, editing, edited)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you edit a text such as an article or a book, you correct and adapt it so that it is suitable for publishing.
The majority of contracts give the publisher the right to edit a book after it's done.
...an edited version of the speech.
VERB: V n, V-ed
• editing
Throughout the editing of this book, we have had much support and encouragement.
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2.
If you edit a book or a series of books, you collect several pieces of writing by different authors and prepare them for publishing.
This collection of essays is edited by Ellen Knight...
She has edited the media studies quarterly, Screen.
...the Real Sandwich Book, edited by Miriam Polunin.
VERB: be V-ed by n, V n, V-ed
• editing
He was certainly not cut out to combine the jobs of editing and writing as a journalist.
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3.
If you edit a film or a television or radio programme, you choose some of what has been filmed or recorded and arrange it in a particular order.
He taught me to edit and splice film...
He is editing together excerpts of some of his films.
VERB: V n, V n with together
• editing
He sat in on much of the filming and early editing.
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4.
Someone who edits a newspaper, magazine, or journal is in charge of it.
I used to edit the college paper in the old days.
VERB: V n
5.
An edit is the process of examining and correcting a text so that it is suitable for publishing.
The purpose of the edit is fairly simple-to chop out the boring bits from the original.
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