copyedit
See also: copy edit
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBack-formation from copy editor.[1]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcopyedit (third-person singular simple present copyedits, present participle copyediting, simple past and past participle copyedited)
- (transitive, printing) To correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and prepare it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.
- Synonym: subedit
- 1990 April 28, Duncan Mitchell, “A Dazzling Parade Of Celebrity Names”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
- Memoirs of a Bastard Angel contains so many amazing howlers that it seems barely to have been copyedited or proofread.
Usage notes
edit- Of the alternative forms, copyedit is most common, followed by copy edit and copy-edit.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
- In the American corpus, copyedit is an undisputed leader.[7] In the British corpus, it is a tie between copyedit and copy-edit.[7]
- Verb copyedit is in Merriam-Webster,[8] AHD[9] and Collins.[10]
- Verb copy edit is in Merriam-Webster,[8] AHD[9] and Cambridge.[11]
- Verb copy-edit is in AHD,[9] Cambridge,[11] Collins,[10] Oxford Learner's,[12] OED[13] and Longman.[14]
- The verb forms are indicated as mainly U.S. in Cambridge[11] and Collins.[10]
- Use of copy editor and copyeditor predates use of copy edit and copyedit.[15]
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editprepare material for publishing
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See also
editNoun
editcopyedit (plural copyedits)
- The process or act of copyediting a document.
- The result of copyediting a document.
- 2006, Brian Fagan, Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories About the Past, page 129:
- Your production editor will probably not contact you until the due date of the copyedit is established in-house.
- A single change to the text of a document that is an instance of copyediting.
- 1991, TEX Users Group, TUGboat, volume 12, page 365:
- For example, if the author is responsible for inserting the copyedits into the source files, then there are repercussions later on when changes are made during the page formatting stage.
- 2012, Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab, Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age, page 418:
- The copyedits in science.net — a game designed for middle school students — were somewhat less blunt, but they were supposed to retain the other salient features of the original.
Usage notes
edit- In noun usage, the form copyedit is most common, followed by copy edit and then the much less common copy-edit.[16]
References
edit- ^ “copyedit”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ copyedit, copy edit, copy-edit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ copyedited, copy edited, copy-edited at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ copyedits, copy-edits, copy edits at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ copyediting, copy editing, copy-editing at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ copyedited by,copy edited by,copy-edited by at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 to copyedit, to copy edit, to copy-edit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 “copyedit”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 “copyedit”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 “copyedit”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 “copy edit”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- ^ “copy-edit”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- ^ “copy-edit” under “copy”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “copy-edit” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- ^ copyeditor,copy editor, copyedit, copy edit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ a copy edit,a copyedit,a copy-edit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
Further reading
edit- “copyedit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “copyedit”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Copy editing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia