Redact

  

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Redact

Definitions: Redact

Redact

Noun

1. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.

Verb

1. Formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language".

2. Make editorial changes (in a text).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Redact

Synonyms: redactor (n), reviser (n), rewrite man (n), rewriter (n), cast (v), couch (v), edit (v), frame (v), put (v). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Redact

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

redact

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Redact

Language Translations for "redact"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

redaktoj (edit, red pencil), hartoj (compile, compose, draw, draw up, frame, indite, make). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حرر (cast off, clear, decontrol, deliver, detach, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, grant freedom, liberate, manumit, open, phrase, redeem, release, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, subedit, unchain, uncork, unleash, unlock, unstitch), ‏صاغ (coin, draw up, fashion, forge, frame, model, mold, mould, put, reduplicate, shape, state). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

редактирам (edit, formalize). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

编辑 (Compilation, Edit, Edited, Editing, Edition, Editor, Editorship). (various references)

   

Czech

  

redigovat. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تنظیم کردن (Adjust, Control, Edit, Frame, Modulate, Order, Regiment, Regularize, Regulate), تحریرکردن (Write), اماده چاپ کردن (Edit), انشاء کردن (Paragraph). (various references)

   

French

  

rédiger (repeat), éditer. (various references)

   

German

  

herausgeben (deliver, edit, give change, give in change, hand over, issue, publish, return, surrender, to redact). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συντάσσω (compile, compose, draw up, edit, fall in, indite, write), ετοιμάζω προσ δημοσίεσιν, ετοιμάζω προσ δημοσίευση. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szerkeszt (build, construct, draft, draught, edit, to compile, to design, to devise, to frame, to plot), sajtó alá rendez, megrövidít (to abridge, to cut down, to garble, to wrong). (various references)

   

Italian

  

redigere (compile, draw up, edit, engross, indite, write). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edactray

   

Portuguese

  

rever (reconsider, retrace, review, revise, see again), redigir (compose, indivertible, pen, word, write), editar (create, edition, issue, produce, publish, publishing, put out), dar forma literária a. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

redacta (compose, couch, draft, draw, draw up, edit, frame, indite, prepare, word, write), pregãti pentru publicare. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

редактировать (blue pencil, blue-pencil, edit, red pencil). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

redigovati (edit), urediti (arrange, do up, fix up, iron out, lay, organize, put in order, settle, tidy up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

redactar (draw out, draw up, edit, make out, make up, phrase, put, word, write). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

redigera (edit, subedit, write up). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แก้ไข (edit, mend, remedy, right), ร่าง (draft). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yazıya dökmek (put on paper, reduce to writing), baskıya hazırlamak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

складати (accumulate, aggregate, amount, bolt, compose, congregate, make, make up, number, tot, wage), редагувати (blue pencil, edit). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Redact

Derivations

Words beginning with "redact": redacted, redacting, redaction, redactional, redactions, redactor, redactors, redacts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Redact" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dedact, edact, medact, predacity, Raddatz, Ramdac, Readicut, redack, redast, redate, redca, reddat, redic, redoc, reduct, renact, rendait, retat, retect, ridic, roduct, Ruddick, rudjak. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Redact"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "redact" (pronounced ruda"kt)
3-a" k tabstract, act, attacked, attract, backed, blacked, counterattacked, cracked, detract, diffract, distract, enact, exact, extract, fact, hacked, impact, inexact, intact, interact, jacked, lacked, overreact, packed, pact, protract, racked, react, reenact, repacked, retract, sacked, slacked, smacked, stacked, subtract, tacked, tact, tracked, tract, transact, unpacked, whacked, wracked.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Redact

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carted, crated, traced.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-r-t"

-1 letter: acred, acted, arced, cadet, cadre, cared, caret, carte, cater, cedar, crate, dater, derat, raced, rated, react, recta, tared, trace, trade, tread.

-2 letters: aced, acre, cade, card, care, cart, cate, dace, dare, dart, date, dear, drat, race, rate, read, tace, tare, tear, trad.

-3 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, cad, car, cat, ear, eat, era, eta, rad, rat, rec, red, ret, tad, tae, tar, tea, ted.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, at, de, ed, er, et, re, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-r-t"
 

+1 letter: bracted, catered, cerated, charted, cordate, crafted, created, curated, detract, fracted, reacted, redacts, redcoat, scarted, tracked, traduce, tranced.

 

+2 letters: accredit, accreted, acerated, acridest, aeroduct, arcuated, articled, cadaster, cadastre, cantered, captured, carpeted, cartoned, cathedra, cavorted, ceratoid, chordate, citrated, cratered, cremated, crenated, decanter, decorate, decretal, democrat, detacher, detracts, dicentra, educator, factored, furcated, lacertid, outraced, picrated, preacted, racketed, radicate, raticide, readdict, recanted, recrated, redacted, redactor, redcoats, retacked, retraced, starched, terraced, tetracid, tetradic, timecard, tracheid, trachled, traduced, traducer, traduces, uncrated, underact, untraced.

 

+3 letters: abreacted, accoutred, accredits, acerbated, acierated, aeroducts, afterdeck, astricted, attracted, bacteroid, bracketed, bratticed, cadasters, cadastres, carinated, cartooned, cartridge, castrated, cathedrae, cathedral, cathedras, chaptered, charioted, chartered, chattered, chordates, clattered, coatdress, cocreated, comparted, cordately, corelated, coronated, corotated, costarred, creodonta, croustade, curtailed, curtained, decaliter, decameter, decanters, declarant, decorated, decorates, decorator, decretals, dedicator, demarcate, democrats, deprecate, desecrate, detachers, detracted, detractor, diaeretic, diametric, dicentras, doctorate, educators, entranced, eradicate, eructated, execrated, extracted, fractured, infarcted, infracted, lacerated, lacertids, macerated, matricide, mistraced, motorcade, obcordate, octahedra, ostracode, overacted, patricide, pediatric, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, radicated, radicates, ratcheted, raticides, readdicts, recharted, recreated, redacting, redaction, redactors, reductant, reductase, reeducate, reenacted, refracted, relocated, rematched, repatched, restacked, retackled, retracked, retracted, scattered, scratched, sidetrack, tetracids, timecards, traceried, tracheids, trackside, traducers, trajected, transcend, transduce, trauchled, truncated, ulcerated, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, urticated.

 

+4 letters: abductores, abstracted, abstricted, accoutered, accredited, achondrite, acidimeter, acidimetry, acridities, advertence, advertency, afterdecks, altercated, ancestored, bacterized, bacteroids, becarpeted, bifurcated, brachiated, breadstick, brecciated, calibrated, carbonated, carbureted, carditides, carditises, carotenoid, carpetweed, cartelised, cartelized, cartridges, caryatides, cathedrals, cauterized, celebrated, centigrade, cerebrated, cicatrized, circulated, coauthored, cofeatured, contracted, contrasted, cooperated, coordinate, correlated, corrugated, coruscated, crassitude, credential, creditable, creditably, crenelated, crenulated, crepitated, criminated, croustades, cybernated, decaliters, decameters, decametric, decelerate, declarants, decorating, decoration, decorative, decorators, dedicators, dedicatory, defalcator, dekametric, demarcated, demarcates, democratic, deprecated, deprecates, depreciate, deracinate, desecrated, desecrater, desecrates, desecrator, desiccator, detracting, detraction, detractive, detractors, diarrhetic, diathermic, dichromate, diffracted, discarnate, discrepant, dispatcher, distracted, divaricate, dockmaster, doctorates, dogcatcher, ectodermal, edulcorate, elucidator, eradicated, eradicates, eradicator, excoriated, extricated, fabricated, factorized, farfetched, forecasted, fornicated, fractioned, fratricide, imbricated, imprecated, incarnated, incurvated, interacted, interfaced, interlaced, judicature, lubricated, matricides, merchanted, mercurated, micturated, miscreated, motorcaded, motorcades, narcotized, octahedral, octahedron, ostracised, ostracized, ostracodes, outcapered, outcharged, outcharmed, outcrawled, outmarched, outreached, overcasted, packthread, paediatric, parachuted, patricides, pederastic, pediatrics, percolated, praelected, predicated, predicates, preenacted, procreated, proctodaea, protracted, rachitides, reaccented, reaccepted, reaccredit, readdicted, reattached, reattacked, recaptured, recarpeted, redactions, redecorate, rededicate, reductants, reductases, reeducated, reeducates, rejacketed, reluctated, replicated, retroacted, rubricated, rusticated, sacerdotal, sidetracks, subcordate, subtracted, taxidermic, tetrachord, tracheated, tracksides, tradecraft, trafficked, transacted, transcends, transduced, transducer, transduces, transected, uncarpeted, underacted, undercoats, underreact, wildcatter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Redact


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 61 63 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -..    .-    -.-.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 01100001 01100011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#97 &#99 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0061 0063 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527170676986

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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