verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
edit a file (= make changes to it )
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I edited the file and saved it to the hard disk.
edit a film
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The film was edited using the latest digital technology.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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Jake was reviewing the Ireland match on video, editing out all the passages of time where the ball was dead.
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That line had been edited out of yesterday's remarks.
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Not only would this save costs, but coughs and extraneous noises could be edited out .
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But when leaders shape visions that are too wordy, peo-ple edit out all but the most meaningful aspirations.
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Observers of the seven-month trial are left wondering who edited out the intrigue.
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Often elements of the story would be edited out by the interval.
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With Lowell a lot had to be edited out before she spoke.
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It was like a rerun of the reel in which my father was edited out .
■ NOUN
book
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He has written or edited twelve books , mainly examining relationships between industrial change and regional and national economies.
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The book is, however, not disjointed and the chapters are uniform in presentation and carefully edited .
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He is a man who has edited a book of satirical verse.
books
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He has written or edited twelve books , mainly examining relationships between industrial change and regional and national economies.
document
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Anyone with access to your disk can recall, print, or edit your documents .
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You can edit a new document as you type it or an existing one that is already saved on the disk.
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Unlike some other word-processing programs, WordPerfect does not automatically make backup copies of edited documents .
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Of course, to edit an existing document , you must first recall it.
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Proofread and edit the completed document . use the Spell and Thesaurus programs.
file
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Now you need to edit the WIN.INI file .
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For more flexibility use the Editor to edit the DOSSHELL.INI file .
film
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Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time, but Karajan was well ahead of the game.
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For example, every Disney animator had a Moviola for viewing and editing film .
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Six 12-hour days of editing later, the film was finished.
letter
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Firstly, I understand that you must edit letters , but the crucial point on avoiding sexist language was omitted.
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Then you can edit your letter later.
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We reserve the right to edit letters .
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The editor reserves the right to edit letters .
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The editor is not bound to agree with readers' opinions and reserves the right to edit letters .
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We reserve the right to edit all letters so that all the nasty, unintelligible bits get taken out.
magazine
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She also edited our magazine for several years.
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He edited the magazine Hills, and coordinated as series of influential talks on the new writing.
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He edited the school magazine and was a leading figure on the school's workers' council.
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Helen will continue to edit the magazine as she has since 1965.
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Later, at Ohio State University, he edited the campus humor magazine .
newspaper
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I used to edit a radical student newspaper .
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A trade union employed a journalist to edit its newspaper .
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He now edits Solidarity's weekly newspaper , but probably not for long.
page
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Usually, you can run a Web browser at the same time as you're editing your Web page .
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This will give you the opportunity to edit your pages as you review them.
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Many people are still using it to create and edit Web pages .
text
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The learner is enabled to edit and modify text in the same way, say, as an adult journalist would.
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Save it as text and you can read or edit it in any text viewer or word processor.
user
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The user can then edit the index if any entries need amending.
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PaperPort software creates a graphic image of the scanned item and lets the user edit , annotate and sort the result.
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The combined package with the basic function of Photoshop Version 2.5, enables users to input and edit images with their computer.
video
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Colleagues presented him with video editing equipment which was handed over by Michael Larkin, senior manager in Research Group.
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The company capitalized on burgeoning demand for workstations designed for highly graphical applications, such as video editing and engineering design.
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Jake was reviewing the Ireland match on video , editing out all the passages of time where the ball was dead.
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This presents problems when video is being edited unless frame-accurate editing equipment is being used - see Chapter 8.
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A new development called time-coding is in the process of revolutionising video editing at the advanced amateur level.
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Matinee gives you over 30 clips of video to edit and view.
woman
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Like Maxim, this one also is being edited by a woman , Amy Schrier.
■ VERB
publish
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Here we publish edited answers to some of the questions that are dominating the current political debate.
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Nearby, DayStar Digital was selling its pricier, super-performance Mac clones for high-end publishing and editing .
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The resulting historic memoir was published in 1907, edited by Geikie in his retirement.
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It will be published by Heinemann, edited by Penny Hoare, and the backlist will appear in Mandarin.
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Examples of policy statements have been published in a book edited by Futas.
reserve
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We reserve the right to edit letters.
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Editors reserve the right to edit entries for taste or content.
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Please keep letters as brief as possible, and legible; we reserve the right to edit them.
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The editor reserves the right to edit letters.
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The editor is not bound to agree with readers' opinions and reserves the right to edit letters.
write
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This unfortunately gives the-perhaps false-impression, that the text was written or edited in rather a rushed manner.
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Today the Foxfire magazine is still written , edited , and published by students.
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He has written or edited twelve books, mainly examining relationships between industrial change and regional and national economies.
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Within each sphere, there are those who own or manage the media and those who write or edit the content.
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It was written , edited , illustrated and compiled by homeless and formerly homeless people in San Francisco.
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All your knowledge is drawn from an old book that some one wrote and edited .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gupta founded and edited a newspaper in colonial East Africa.
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Viewing and editing documents on screen can be much quicker than working on paper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Education bosses have edited favourite children's author Roald Dahl out of their proposed guide to recommended reading in schools.
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He looks at a film in the editing room like a sculptor and assembles the pieces.
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Nor is there any way of inputting or editing individual records.
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Press B to enter the edit mode.
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Today the Foxfire magazine is still written, edited, and published by students.