Word Finder - editing

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To change a text, or a document.

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To be the editor of a publication.

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He edits the Chronicle.

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To change the contents of a file, website, etc.

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Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.

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To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.

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To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.

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To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.

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To lend itself to editing in a certain way.

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An act or instance of something being edited.

At the time of his death he was editing the Sifra.

People complain all the time that the editing made them look bad, but that's just wrong.

The editing of the book was peculiar.

Only a small beginning has been made in editing and translating these works.

He assisted Kinkel in editing the Bonner Zeitung, and on the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848 took the field, but when Rastatt surrendered he escaped to Zurich.

They do not point to any critical editing of the text; for the aim of the Massoretes was essentially conservative.

He had begun his career as a clerk in the French Home Office, but at the outbreak of the Franco-German War he was editing Les Droits de l'homme at Montpellier, and had to take refuge at Geneva in 1871 from a prosecution instituted on account of articles which had appeared in his paper in defence of the Commune.

Under Louis Philippe he made large contributions to French jurisprudence, editing the Journal du palais, 1791-1837 (27 vols., 1837), and 1837-1847 (17 vols.), with a commentary Repertoire general de la jurisprudence francaise (8 vols., 1843-1848), the introduction to which was written by himself.

The Cancioneiro de Ajuda by Mme Vasconcellos, is the perfection of editing, and there are diplomatic editions of other cancioneiros, e.g.

The modern science of critical editing, however, which applies to medieval texts the principles long recognized in editing the classics, has discovered in the 16th-century manuscript, and still more in the original miscellaneous works of Joinville, the letters, deeds, &c., already alluded to, the materials for what we have already called a conjectural restoration, which is not without its interest, though perhaps it is possible for that interest to be exaggerated.

Until the abandonment of this experiment in 1847, Ripley was its leader, cheerfully taking upon himself all kinds of tasks, teaching mathematics and philosophy in the school, milking cows and attending to other bucolic duties, and after June 1845 editing the weekly Harbinger, an organ of "association," which he continued to edit in New York from 1847 until it was discontinued in 1849.

He was associated with the elder Hosea Ballou in editing The Universalist Quarterly Review; edited an edition of Sismondi's History of the Crusades (1833); and wrote the Ancient History of Universalism, down to A.D.

Professor Park, like Mr. Grosart before him, had been unable to accomplish the great task of editing this mass of manuscript.

In appearance and careful editing it leaves nothing to desire, containing the entire works, a lexicon, full bibliographical information, and an album of illustrations of the poet's places of residence, his arms, some title-pages of his plays, facsimiles of his writings, &c. Nothing is wanting but variorum comments, which Lefevre's edition supplies.

But gradually he devoted less of his time to practice and more to lecturing in the Harvard Law School, to editing court reports and to contributions to law journals, especially on historical and biographical lines, in which his erudition was unsurpassed.

Meanwhile he did much editing and compiling, and produced, among other works in prose, The Stranger in Lowell (1845), Supernaturalism in New England (1847), Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal (1849), a pleasing treatment in old-style English of an early Colonial theme.

For thirty years he took an active part in the business of the Royal Astronomical Society, editing its publications, supplying obituary notices of members, and for eighteen years acting as one of the honorary secretaries.

In the meantime, besides contributing regularly, first to the Saturday Review and then to the Spectator, and editing the National Review, he wrote the first volume of The Early and Middle Ages of England (1861).

All his works were written in the most elegant style and chaste diction; but apart from his share in the editing of the Historiens de la France, they were mostly in the form of separate articles on literary and historical subjects.

His latest labour was the editing of the Latin poems of his friend Benedict Stay on the philosophy of Descartes, with scientific annotations and supplements.

Taking first the sagas relating to Icelanders, of which some thirty-five or forty remain out of thrice that number, they were first written down between 1140 and 1220, in the generation which succeeded Ari and felt the g impulse his books had given to writing, on separate scrolls, no doubt mainly for the reciter's convenience; they then went through the different phases which such popular compositions have to pass in all lands - editing and compounding (1220-1260), padding and amplifying (1260-1300), and finally collection in large MSS.

Dr Vigfusson would ascribe its editing and completion to Sturla the Lawman, c. 1250.

In his later years he gave much of his time and talent to the interests of children, editing papers for boys and dedicating hundreds of his finest songs to children.

Besides the private practice of his profession, he contributed largely to medical knowledge by the publication of several books, mainly on the anatomy of the pancreas and the abdominal viscera, by papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and in professional journals, and by editing for a time the Quarterly Medical Journal.

For many years Mr. Labouchere himself contributed racy articles and notes, and he was to the end popularly identified with Truth, though in fact he left the direction in later years first to Mr. Horace Voules and then to Mr. Bennett, and took no active part either in writing or editing.

This journey, in which he saw Leiden, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, as well .as Stockholm, resulted chiefly in the discovery, in the Swedish royal library, of some fragments of Origen's Commentary on St Matthew, which gave Huet the idea of editing Origen, a task he completed in 1668.

He left a son, Samuel de Fermat (1630-1690) who published translations of several Greek authors and wrote certain books on law in addition to editing his father's works.

The following chapter was omitted from give the anarchist a Cigarette in the final stages of editing down the size of the original manuscript.

In France he quickly became involved in Armenian literary circles, editing two literary magazines.

Much in-camera superimposition and editing producing a delicate, finely detailed film with qualities of an Indian miniature.

Also included is a rather neat guide to Digital Video editing in general by Douglas Spotted Eagle.

There is a DVD creator so if you are into editing video you can create quite neat DVD menu's very fast.

To open the document for editing, first open notepad.

Right click Clicking in the editing pane with the right mouse button causes the Context Menu to be displayed.

However they come in useful for ' editing ' a maze, such as by blocking a passageway.

Working safely with the registry March 2005 Does editing the Registry fill you with fear?

ArcSoft PhotoImpression 4 provides a suite of tools for enhancing, editing and manipulating your scans with features such as red-eye removal.

His unique mix of experience in comedy writing, editing and technical savvy made him a great fit for the essential co-director's position.

A 48,000 note 16 track sequencer includes advanced editing functions.

Given this involves undoing the evangelists ' editing the results are speculative to say the least.

One forum only allows you to edit for some 24 hours, Others allow unlimited editing.

Editing & Mixing Digital Performer is simply unrivaled in the area of editing precision.

Father John Martinov of Theazan was entrusted with the editing of the Annus Graeco-Slavicus, which appeared in the beginning of vol.

He became a great authority on the history and antiquities of Roman Britain and was entrusted by Mommsen with the editing of the British section of the Corpus Inscriptionum (see 18.683).

Naturally, this idea is tangled in a quagmire of issues about authorship, editing, context and reception.

Working safely with the Registry March 2005 Does editing the Registry fill you with fear?

In music, creative practice could include composition or performance, and also editing and the exploration of musical repertories within their original context.

His unique mix of experience in comedy writing, editing and technical savvy made him a great fit for the essential co-director 's position.

Hard drives are bigger, CD writers are faster, graphics cards can turn a lower spec machine into a video editing suite.

Covers creating documents, editing, saving, printing, formatting and spell checking.