Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Editing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Edit \Ed"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Edited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Editing}.] [F. ['e]diter, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to
give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See
{Date} a point of time.]
To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for
publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter
of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
--Enfield.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
editing
n : putting something (as a literary work) into publishable form
[syn: {redaction}]
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