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omit

verb
/əʊˈmɪt/UK/oʊˈmɪt/US

Etymology

At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.

  1. derived from omittō
  2. inherited from omitten

Definitions

  1. To leave out or exclude.

  2. To fail to perform.

    • She climbed out of the car and carefully omitted to lock it. She never left anything of value in it, and she found that it was to her advantage if people didn’t have to break anything in order to find that out.

  3. To delete or remove

    To delete or remove; to strike.

    • In the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, omit sections 146(4) and 147(3) (homosexual acts as grounds for dismissal from the crew of merchant ships).
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To neglect or take no notice of.

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Derived

omittability, omittable, omittance, omitter, unomitted

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at omit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01omit02leave03separate04disunite05split06partly07completely08thoroughly09thorough

A definitional loop anchored at omit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at omit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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