Editor

/ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/ · noun

Meaning

A person who edits or makes changes to documents..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
2. A copy editor.
3. A person who edited a specific document.
4. A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
5. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
6. (computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
7. (television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

Example Sentences

Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)

John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.

John is the city editor at the Daily Times.

The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.

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Word Forms

• editors
• ed.
• edit.
• Ed.
• editour

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