editing

1. 1.

   putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form

   Synonymsredaction

   Broaderwriting

   Narrowercopy editingdeletioncorrectionrewriting

   literature

Other forms of editing

plural

editings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about editing

What does editing mean?

editing means "putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form".

How many syllables are in editing?

editing has 3 syllables: ed-i-ting. The stress falls on "ed". In IPA it is /ˈɛdətɪŋ/.

What is another word for editing?

Close synonyms include redaction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is editing a common word?

editing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.