# editor

Pronunciation: US say "ED-i-tur" /ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/; UK say "ED-i-tuh" /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/

## Noun

1. Someone at a newspaper, publishing house, or similar organization who edits stories, decides which ones get published, or both.
   - Simple: A person at a newspaper or publisher who fixes stories, chooses which ones get printed, or does both.
   - _The city editor sent two reporters to the courthouse._
   - _Every editor she pitched turned the novel down before one finally bought it._
2. A person who checks, corrects, and improves written material, especially to prepare it for publication.
   - Simple: A person who reads writing, fixes mistakes, and makes it better, often before it is published.
   - _A volunteer editor removed the whole section within a day._
   - _She works as a freelance editor for three small publishers._
3. In computing, a program for creating and modifying files, especially text files.
   - Simple: A computer program for writing and changing files, especially text.
   - _The editor highlights syntax errors as you type._
   - _A good editor can be extended with scripts written by its users._
4. In film and television, a person who selects, cuts, and arranges footage into a finished film or television program; a picture editor.
   - Simple: A person who cuts and joins film or video so the shots are in the right order.
   - _The editor and the director spent months in the cutting room._
   - _An editor shapes the rhythm of a film as much as the writer shapes its words._
6. A machine used for editing motion-picture film by cutting and splicing it.
   - Simple: A machine for cutting and joining movie film.
   - _Before video, home-movie makers cut their reels on an editor with a small viewing screen._
   - _The museum's editor still runs, and visitors can splice two strips of old newsreel._
5. The person responsible for editing a particular document, such as an edition or a collection of texts.
   - Simple: The person who edited one particular piece of writing.
   - _The edition's editor supplied the notes and the index._
   - _As editor of the collected letters, she decided what to leave out._

## Origin

Late Latin ēditor, built on ēditus (the perfect passive participle of ēdō, "give out, put forth, publish"), passed into Medieval Latin ēditor, the immediate source of the English word.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/editor (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).