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line editing

line editing is the present participle and gerund of line edit.

Meaning of line edit

Verb

line edit (third-person singular simple present line edits, present participle line editing, simple past and past participle line edited)

  1. To edit (a text) to ensure consistency, accuracy, and completeness; to copyedit.

Questions about line editing

What is line editing the present participle and gerund of?
Line editing is the present participle and gerund of line edit.

Words near line editing in the dictionary

  1. line drive
  2. line drives
  3. line drop
  4. line edit
  5. line edited
  6. line editing
  7. line edits
  8. line element
  9. line elements
  10. line engraving
  11. line engravings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: line editing (page history and authors); line edit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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