ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Preedit

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Preedit is a verb meaning (transitive) To edit (something) in advance.

Meaning

(transitive) To edit (something) in advance.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To edit (something) in a preliminary way before a main editing step.
  2. An edit of a preliminary type, before a main editing step.

Example Sentences

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).

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pretype, premodify, preclear, preformat, precopy, precompose.

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