Definition: 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.
Use 'edit' in a sentence:
1. How to edit this film?
2. Oh, anyone can edit it.
3. You cannot edit this topic.
4. His voice will be edited out of the final film.
5. The words she used were edited out before the programme was broadcast.
6. It is not yet decided who will edit it.
7. Do you really want to edit it?
8. It was edited from the original text.
9. She is able to edit a written report.
10. Despite some artful editing, the anthology is a weak one.
11. I used to edit the college paper in the old days.
12. They edited out references to her father in the interview.
13. You'll have to edit that tape& it's too long.
14. It's easy to use and edit.
15. Next you need to edit your new project.
16. You edit the paper very carefully.
17. Three CBS cameramen were on site to shoot and edit taped reports. 3.
18. The majority of contracts give the publisher the right to edit a book after it's done.
19. Now you can try to edit a class activity.
20. They're showing the edited highlights of last month's game.
21. I entered 4 into the count edit box.
22. She has edited the media studies quarterly, Screen.
23. Do you need to edit that message?
24. You can edit as many flyers as you want.
25. That front-page package you've been working on is nearly complete; one last edit and it's finished.
26. He edited a Book of poetry carefully.
27. We will need to edit this later.
28. When you write, you should not edit your writing.
29. You can edit this name.
30. We can edit them one by one.
31. Before long he took over the editing of the magazine.
32. So we cannot edit all fields.
33. You can't edit what you can't see.
34. He taught me to edit and splice film.
35. You have to edit pages.
36. Could you edit this paper for me?
37. She edited that line out again.
38. He is editing together excerpts of some of his films.
39. "I prefer take-home essays because it is then really about the writing, so you have time to edit and do more research," says Elizabeth Dresser, a junior at Barnard.
40. The soundtrack of 'Casablanca' took weeks to edit.
41. Filmmaking was transformed by digital editing, digital f/ x, and digicams.
42. This collection of essays is edited by Ellen Knight.
43. To edit it, you need to run the built-in Windows Registry editor.
44. She used to edit a women's magazine.
45. The purpose of the edit is fairly simple — to chop out the boring bits from the original.
46. He's editing a book of essays by Isaiah Berlin.
47. I had time to do a quick edit of my essay before handing it in.
48. Edit the input text and re-run the software.
49. You can download the file and edit it on your word processor.
50. He undertook to edit the text himself.
51. I know that this draft text will need to be edited.
52. Choose the 'Cut' option from the Edit menu.
53. When you edit the tape you can take out the giggles.
54. The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls "free writing".
