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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: edit - educatee</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="edit"> edit, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to prepare (another person's writings) for publication or presentation by correcting errors, checking facts, and the like; prepare an edition of. Ex. The teacher is editing famous speeches for use in schoolbooks. Scholars often edit Shakespeare's plays. <DD> 2. to have charge of (a newspaper, magazine, or other publication) and decide what shall be printed in it. Ex. Two girls were chosen to edit the class bulletin. <DD> 3. to revise or give final form to (motion-picture films, tape recordings, or other recorded material) by such means as cutting and splicing. Ex. The performance you buy at the local record shop is ... edited by a skilled technician so that the joins are imperceptible (Punch). <DD> 4. to alter (a gene) by genetic engineering. Ex. For large genes it is probably more practical to isolate the natural gene and then, when necessary, merely "edit" the gene with chemically synthesized DNA (Science). <DD>noun (Informal.) 1. editing; editorial work. Ex. Strick tosses in so many starts of parades and tourist views that at times the movie feels like a travelogue ... luckily, the fast edit keeps the action from sagging (New Yorker). <DD> 2. editorial. Ex. As I read your edit in your issue of May 8, I felt like jumping up onto a soapbox and replying, "I'm glad you asked that question" (Punch). expr. edit down, to shorten by or as if by editing. Ex. The last 20 minutes [of a motion picture] could have been edited down (Washington Times). expr. edit out, to delete while editing. Ex. All references to the United States were ... edited out of the tape (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="edit"> edit.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. edited. <DD> 2. edition. <DD> 3. editor. </DL> <A NAME="editeur"> editeur, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a publisher. </DL> <A NAME="edition"> edition, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. all the copies of a book, newspaper, and other printed matter just alike and issued at or near the same time. Ex. The first edition of "Robinson Crusoe" was printed in 1719. In the second edition of the book, many of the errors in the first edition had been corrected. <DD> 2. the form in which a book is printed or published. Ex. a one-volume edition of Shakespeare. The new edition of "Mother Goose" has better pictures than the older editions. Some books appear in paperback editions. <DD> 3. an issue of the same newspaper, book, or other printed matter, published at different times with additions and changes. Ex. the afternoon edition, a foreign edition. <DD> (Abbr:) ed. </DL> <A NAME="editionalize"> editionalize, intransitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to print several editions. Ex. Indeed, where a national newspaper has no such connexion, it often tries to offset the handicap by editionalizing and by facsimile printing in more than one centre (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="editiondeluxe"> edition de luxe,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) an especially elegant edition of a book or the like. </DL> <A NAME="editionesexpurgatae"> editiones expurgatae,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) expurgated editions. </DL> <A NAME="editioprinceps"> editio princeps,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) the first printed edition. </DL> <A NAME="editor"> editor, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who edits. Ex. A large newspaper has many editors who are each responsible for a single department of news: a city editor, business editor, military editor, sports editor, etc. <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) ed. <DD> 2. a person who writes editorials. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="editorial"> editorial, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. an article in a newspaper or magazine written by the editor or under his direction, giving the opinion or attitude of the paper upon some subject. <DD> 2. a radio or television broadcast expressing the editorial opinion or attitude of the program, station, or network. <DD>adj. of or having to do with an editor or an editorial. Ex. editorial work, an editorial comment. </DL> <A NAME="editorialist"> editorialist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a writer of editorials. </DL> <A NAME="editorialize"> editorialize, intransitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to include comment or criticism in news articles. <DD> 2. to write an editorial. Ex. Owing to the closeness of the Congressional elections in many parts of the country, the results were insufficiently clear to editorialize about (New Yorker). noun editorialization. noun editorializer. </DL> <A NAME="editorializing"> editorializing, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the making of (sometimes biased or distorted) assertions in the positive and authoritative manner of an editorial. Ex. The modern style of predigested editorializing is apt to cause a vague uneasiness (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="editorially"> editorially, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. in an editorial manner or capacity; as an editor. Ex. She wrote editorially for a London paper (Harper's). <DD> 2. in an editorial. </DL> <A NAME="editorinchief"> editor in chief,<DL COMPACT><DD> the editor in charge of a newspaper, magazine, dictionary, or other work compiled by a group of people. </DL> <A NAME="editorship"> editorship, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the position, duties, or authority of an editor. </DL> <A NAME="editress"> editress, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman editor. </DL> <A NAME="editrix"> editrix, noun, pl. editrixes, editrices.<DL COMPACT><DD> an editress. </DL> <A NAME="ediya"> Ediya, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> the tribes of black people that inhabit Fernando Po in West Africa. </DL> <A NAME="edm"> Ed.M.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Master of Education. </DL> <A NAME="edo"> Edo, noun, pl. Edo or Edos.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a member of an agricultural people of West Africa, living chiefly in southern Nigeria. <DD> 2. their Kwa language. </DL> <A NAME="edohwe"> Edohwe, noun, pl. -hwe or -hwes.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a tribe of North American Indians, formerly living in California. </DL> <A NAME="edom"> Edom, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Esau, Jacob's twin brother (in the Bible, Genesis 25:29, 30). </DL> <A NAME="edomite"> Edomite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a native or inhabitant of Edom, a region in Palestine south of the Dead Sea (in the Bible, Numbers 20:14-21). </DL> <A NAME="edp"> EDP (no periods) or E.D.P.,<DL COMPACT><DD> electronic data processing. </DL> <A NAME="edpm"> EDPM (no periods) or E.D.P.M.,<DL COMPACT><DD> electronic data processing machine. </DL> <A NAME="eds"> eds.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. editions. <DD> 2. editors. </DL> <A NAME="eds"> E.D.S.,<DL COMPACT><DD> English Dialect Society. </DL> <A NAME="edt"> EDT (no periods), E.D.T., or e.d.t.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Eastern Daylight Time. </DL> <A NAME="edta"> EDTA (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid, a colorless, crystalline acid used as a metal chelating agent, as an anticoagulant, and in the treatment of chlorosis, calcinosis, lead poisoning, and other conditions. </DL> <A NAME="educ"> educ.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. educated. <DD> 2. education. <DD> 3. educational. </DL> <A NAME="educability"> educability, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the ability to learn. <DD> 2. the opportunity to receive an education. </DL> <A NAME="educable"> educable, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. that can be educated, taught, or trained. <DD>noun an educable person. </DL> <A NAME="educand"> educand, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is to be educated. </DL> <A NAME="educatable"> educatable, adjective. =educable.</DL> <A NAME="educate"> educate, verb, -cated, -cating.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to develop in knowledge, skill, ability, or character by training, study, or experience; teach; train. Ex. The job of teachers is to educate the young. (SYN) instruct. <DD> 2. to send to school; provide schooling for. Ex. My brother is being educated in the East and returns home only for vacations. <DD> 3. to train for a particular calling or occupation. <DD>v.i. to give instruction; teach. Ex. In my eyes the question is not what to teach, but how to educate (Charles Kingsley). </DL> <A NAME="educated"> educated, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. that has received an education; showing knowledge or training. Ex. an intelligent and educated woman. <DD> 2. refined. Ex. an educated palate. <DD> 3. based on expert interpretation of facts. Ex. an educated opinion, an educated estimate. adv. educatedly. noun educatedness. </DL> <A NAME="educatedguess"> educated guess,<DL COMPACT><DD> an estimate, prediction, or opinion based on expert interpretation of incomplete, inadequate, or undigested data. Ex. The educated guess by historians ... is that the first two years of the Centennial saw between 250 and 300 books on the Civil War (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="educatee"> educatee, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is being educated; student. Ex. It is not enough for the educator to pour fact after fact into the educatee (Saturday Review). </DL> <A HREF="educatio.dic">NEXT</A>