editor
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin ēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Medieval Latin ēditorder. English editor From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).
Definitions
A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
A copy editor.
A person who edited a specific document.
- John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
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A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or…
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
- John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
- The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for…
Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
The neighborhood
Derived
chief editor, City editor, coeditor, commissioning editor, copy editor, deaditor, edit, editor-at-large, editorial, editorializing, editor in chief, editorless, editorlike, editorship, editress, Emacs, exchange editor, faned, flatbed editor, hex-editor, hex editor, idiotor, input method editor, intereditor, letter to the editor, linkage editor, link editor, logo editor, makeup editor, managing editor, noneditor, nonlinear editor, photo editor, posteditor, preditor, Redditor, script editor, stone editor, story editor, subeditor · +2 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for editor. 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