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copyread

verb

Etymology

From copy + read.

  1. derived from *Hreh₁dʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *rēdaną✻
  3. inherited from *rādan✻
  4. inherited from rǣdan
  5. inherited from reden
  6. compounded as copyread — “copy + read”

Definitions

  1. To read text (of a newspaper etc.) and edit it to correct mistakes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copyread. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA