Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who edits, especially as an occupation.
- noun One who writes editorials.
- noun A device for editing film, consisting basically of a splicer and viewer.
- noun Computers A program used to edit text or data files.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An exhibitor: in the phrase editor of the games (translating the Latin editor ludorum), an officer who superintended the Roman public games.
- noun One who edits; one who prepares, or superintends the preparation of, a book, journal, etc., for publication. Abbreviated ed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
edits or makes changes todocuments . - noun A
copy editor . - noun A person who edited a specific document.
- noun A person at a
newspaper or similarinstitution who edits stories and decides which ones topublish . - noun A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
- noun computer software A
program forcreating andmaking changes tofiles , especiallytext files . - noun television, cinematography Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data
- noun a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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He was editor of The Bookman after that magazine was taken over by the George H. Doran Company, and retired to the genteel dignity of contributing ed🔥itor in 1920, to obtain le🌳isure for more writing of his own.
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Left, the editor: Matthew🉐 Winkler, who conceived Bloomberg News and retains the title editor in chief.
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When you close the label editor all languages which no other logged o☂n user has instantiated are flushed back to the ald.
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• When opening the label editor we instantiate an instance of the label class fo💟r every language.
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For the last five years, I have worked at PRWeek, where I most recently held the title editor-in-chief.
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While I'm in Drvengrad, my editor is already working on kilometers of archive footage a🍸nd footage𝄹 of his concerts.
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In regard to my print book reviews, my editor is a lot like my radio producer; busy, not wishing to be put🏅 on the spot so to speak by an author ꦫor a publicist.
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In this case, my editor is my🌳 clie🌠nt, and she expected the manuscript for BITE AFTER BITE, the first volume of my Night Court lawyer-vampire series, by May 1.
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Except that might create a dangerous precedent if your editor is a chocoholic.
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But beating around the bush, might give you the impression that your editor is a jerk.
oroboros commented on the word editor
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.�?–🌟 T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
August 28, 2007
grandpa27 commented on the word editor
In the past, english used to distinguish gender with masculine and feminine endings. Aviator/aviatrix and others. Is there an editrix? The answer is yes and a good thing has been lost in the dumbing down of gender. Women are not honorary men.July 22, 2011
yarb commented on the word editor
editrix is one of my favourite words but I wouldn't call its falling into disuse a "dumbing down of gender". In fact I think I prefer the gender-neutral occupations. It's certainly l🌠ess hassle than e.g. Spanish where you're always having to add an 'a' if the person happens to be female.
July 22, 2011
dontcry commented on the word editor
I'm going to start adding 'trix' to the end of random words to see how long it takes mr dontcry to figure it out. And here I꧅ ♎thought another weekend on the sofa with leg propped up was going to be a drag. If I only had some marmite...*snort*
July 22, 2011
rolig commented on the word editor
There are not many English words where the feminine forms in -trix are still in use. I have seen executrix for the female executor of a will, but the most famous -trix is, of course, dominatrix, and I expect that this word would influence the connotations of any other -trix word that one might try to revive or introduce. Thus, one feels that a woman who insists on being known as an editrix is not merely an editor without a Y chromosome, but is a really demanding editor as well. Curiously, the English cognate of this suffix, -ess has almost exactly opposite connotations, suggesting the sentimental, romantic, or temperamental side of things, as in the words poetess and authoress – which is why very early in the feminist movement women writers tended to reject such terms for themselves. Who today would dare to refer to Virginia Woolf as a🔜n authoress or Sylvia Plath as a poetess? Would anyone have called Margaret Thatcher a prime ministress? Such words were thought to be demeaning no😼t because they referred to women but because they were associated with notions of dilletantism and weakness, in the sense of not being able to deal with the serious matters of politics and commerce.
July 23, 2011
dontcry commented on the word editor
I offered up "graphic designtrix" last night. No bites...July 23, 2011
bilby commented on the word editor
I've seen aviatrix. In living memory :-/July 23, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word editor
Wordtrix? Wordniktrix?July 23, 2011
rolig commented on the word editor
Dontcry, I think the feminine form of "graphic designer" would be "graphic designress": the -ress suffix generally corresponds to the -er suffix, while -trix goes with -tor (though there are exceptions, for example actor/actress).
Bilby, you're right about aviatrix, which often appears in combination with the phrase Amelia Earhart.
Ruzuzu, with regard to a possible feminine form for "Wordnik", I would point out that the -nik suffix is of Slavic origin (in some cases coming into Am.English via Yiddish), and in the Slavic languages the feminine counterpart to -nik words is, as a rule, -nitsa (in the past sometimes transliterated as -nitza, and today, in the so-called scientific transliteration, as -nica), as in the Russian words любовник, любовница / lyubovnik, lyubovnitsa (male and female "lover", respectively). That would give us Wordnitsa, or if you prefer Wordnitza.
July 23, 2011
dontcry commented on the word editor
I'm sure your right, rol. I'm stickin' with graphic designtrix just the same! I'm dangerous today.July 23, 2011
rolig commented on the word editor
Dontcry, you do what's right for you. And I'm sure that whatever you do, it's fierce.
July 23, 2011
bilby commented on the word editor
Bad luck dc. Youcantteachanolddognewtrix.July 23, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word editor
When I look at Wordnitsa, I want to read it as Wordnista.
July 23, 2011
dontcry commented on the word editor
Wordnista vs wordtrix.*drums fingertips on desk*Decisions, decisi🙈ons...
July 24, 2011
blafferty commented on the word editor
Wow, rolig, it's true. Wordtrix makes me picture a woman in vinyl with a whip and a dictionary.July 24, 2011
yarb commented on the word editor
That should be the Wordnik logo.July 25, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word editor
It's not already?July 25, 2011