editor
[ ed-i-ter ]
/ ˈɛd ɪ tər /
noun
a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication: She was offered a managing editor position at a small press.
the supervisor or manager of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.: the sports editor of a newspaper.
a person who edits, or selects and revises, material for publications, films, etc.: a video editor; the editor of an online journal.
a device for viewing, cutting, and editing film or magnetic tape to make movies, audio recordings, etc.
Computers.
a program used for writing and revising code, data, or text: an XML editor.
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editor
/ (ˈɛdɪtə) /
noun
a person who edits written material for publication
a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical
a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical
the sports editor
films
- a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a film
- a device for editing film, including a viewer and a splicer
television radio
a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme
a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer
Derived forms of editor
editorship, nounWord Origin for editor
C17: from Late Latin: producer, exhibitor, from
ēdere to give out, publish, from
ē- out +
dāre to give