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preedit

verb

Etymology

From pre- + edit.

Definitions

  1. To edit (something) in advance.

  2. To edit (something) in a preliminary way before a main editing step.

    • Some systems require their users to preedit text—for example, into lines (as in WinMAX Pro and AQUAD) or into paragraphs not exceeding a certain length (NUD*IST and NVivo recognize paragraphs by carriage returns).

  3. An edit of a preliminary type, before a main editing step.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preedit. 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