EDITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does editing mean? 

• EDITING (noun)
  The noun EDITING has 1 sense:

1. putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form

  Familiarity information: EDITING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDITING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

editing; redaction

Hypernyms ("editing" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Domain category:

literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "editing"):

copy editing (putting something into a form suitable for a printer)

cut; deletion; excision (the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage)

correction (something substituted for an error)

revising; rewriting (editing that involves writing something again)

Derivation:

edit (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)

 Context examples 

RNA characteristics include, but are not limited to: RNA sequence; RNA expression levels; RNA processing, e.g., splicing and editing; microRNA levels (ICH Draft Consensus Guideline E15).

(Genomic Biomarker, NCI Thesaurus)

It acts as the catalytic component of the multiprotein editosome complex which mediates apolipoprotein B mRNA editing.

(Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein A/B, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

A small RNA involved in post-transcriptional mitochondrial RNA modification (RNA editing) in kinetoplastid protists.

(Guide RNA, NCI Thesaurus)

This makes the coming year superb to work on writing, speaking, or editing projects.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The primary product of the fourth gene is the GP1,2 glycoprotein, which does not require cotranscriptional editing.

(Marburgvirus, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes DNA dC->dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3G protein, may be involved in cellular growth regulation, cell cycle modulation and viral infectivity inhibition.

(APOBEC3G wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes DNA dC->dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3F protein, is involved in the negative regulation of viral infection.

(APOBEC3F wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Working with a melanoma tumor cell line, the researchers used a gene editing technology called CRISPR that “knocks out,” or stops the expression, of individual genes in cancer cells.

(A new study identifies essential genes for cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

A facility that is responsible for receiving, editing, processing, analyzing, and storing data generated in a study and that, in addition, has responsibility for coordination of activities required for execution of the study.

(Coordinating Center, NCI Thesaurus)

The primary product of gene transcription of the fourth gene is a small glycoprotein (sGP), while RNA editing allows expression of full length glycoprotein.

(Ebola Virus, NCI Thesaurus)