edit

compile, edit

这两个动词均含“编辑”之意。
compile: 通常指根据搜集、整理的资料编辑词典或汇编文集。
edit: 普通用词，含义广泛。指校订、编辑他人待出版的著作，也指对杂志、报刊的稿件进行编辑、编排加工。

动词 edit:

1. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
   同义词：redact
2. supervise the publication of
3. cut and assemble the components of
   同义词：cut, edit out
4. cut or eliminate
   同义词：blue-pencil, delete

1. He edit a daily paper before he come to teach at our college.
   他来我们学院任教之前充任过一份日报的主编。
2. In word processing, the ability to define information so as to move it from one point to another within a text element or into another text element, or to edit it.
   在字(词)处理技术中，定义信息的一种能力，以便将该信息从正文部分的一点移到另一点或移入另一个正文部分中或进行编辑。

ed.it

v.tr.（及物动词）
ed.it.ed,ed.it.ing,ed.its

To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
编辑：为出版或公布而准备（书面材料），如通过更正、修改或改写
To prepare an edition of for publication:
发行：为出版准备版本：
例句：
edit a collection of short stories.
发行短篇小说集

To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable:
修改：修改或改变使之合宜或易于接受：
例句：
edited her remarks for presentation to a younger audience.
修改她的言论以适合青年听众

To supervise the publication of (a newspaper or magazine, for example).
主编：主管如（如，报纸或杂志）的出版
To assemble the components of (a film or soundtrack, for example), as by cutting and splicing.
剪辑：集中（如，影片或录音）的各部分，如通过剪裁和拼凑
To eliminate; delete:
删除；划掉：
例句：
edited the best scene out.
删掉最好的一幕

n.（名词）
An act or instance of editing:
编辑：编辑行为或事实：
例句：
made several last-minute edits for reasons of space.
临时编了几个版以填满篇幅

来源：
Partly back-formation from editor
部分为 editor的逆成词
and partly from French éditer [to publish] from Latin ôditus [past participle of] ôdere * see edition
并且部分源自 法语 éditer [出版] 源自 拉丁语 ôditus [] ôdere的过去分词 *参见 edition

<注释>The wordedit is often cited as an example of back-formation. In other words, edit is not the source ofeditor, asdive is of diver, the expected derivational pattern;rather, the reverse is the case. Edit in the sense .to prepare for publication,. first recorded in 793,comes fromeditor, first recorded in 72 in the sense .one who edits..There is more to the story, however. Edit also partly comes from the French wordéditer, .to publish, edit,. first recorded in 784.In the case ofedit, two processes, borrowing and back-formation, have thus occurred either independently or together,perhaps one person takingedit from French originally, another fromeditor, and yet a third from both.
单词edit 常用来作为逆构词的一个范例， 换句话说， edit 并不是editor 的语源， 就象dive 不是 diver 的语源， 这是我们臆想中的派生模式；当然，这种逆构词只是一种范例而已。 Edit 作为.准备出版物.的意义最早记录于793年，这是从editor 来的， 它在72年就以.编辑者.的意义首次记录。但这里还有更多的故事。 Edit 的一部分来源于法语词éditer ，即.出版、编辑.， 它最早记录于784年。在edit 这个词中含有两种造词过程，外借和逆构， 可能是分开进行也可能是同时起作用，或许一个人从原法语词中借用了edit 这个字， 而另一人则从editor 中造出新字， 第三个人却从两个词源中得到这个字