Re: what is "redaction"?
On 6-04-2004, at 22h 47'48", Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote about "what is "redaction"?"
> Hello,
>
> When I translate Debian webpages into Japanese I found a sentence
> which I cannot understand.
> webwml/english/devel/todo/items/60dwn.wml reads:
>
> Debian Weekly News is looking for contributors. They need some people who
> keep in touch with mailing lists and news websites to help in the weekly
> redaction of what's happening in the Debian world.
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> What is "redaction"? My dictionary doesn't have the word.
>
Have you try the dict program?
'dict redaction' will give you this:
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| 2 definitions found
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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| Redaction \Re*dac"tion\ (r?*d?k"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]daction.]
| The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
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| From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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| redaction
| n 1: putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill)
| into acceptable form [syn: {editing}]
| 2: the act of putting something in writing
|
English is not my native language as well, and sometime I need some
help understanding few word. dict is good and fast. Faster than to reach
a book and search for an word...
Ionel
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