different between redactor vs redact

English

Etymology

redact +? -or

Noun

redactor (plural redactors)

1. A person who redacts; an editor or compiler of texts.

Related terms

• redact
• redaction

Further reading

• redactor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• redactor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• carroted, creotard

Catalan

Noun

redactor m (plural redactors, feminine redactora)

1. editor (of a publication)

Related terms

• redactar

Further reading

• “redactor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Etymology

From French rédacteur.

Noun

redactor m (plural redactori)

1. editor

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reda??to?/, [re.ð?a???t?o?]

Noun

redactor m (plural redactores, feminine redactora, feminine plural redactoras)

1. editor (especially of a publication)

Related terms

• redactar

Further reading

• “redactor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redig? (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), from re- (“back”) + ag? (“put in motion, drive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Verb

redact (third-person singular simple present redacts, present participle redacting, simple past and past participle redacted)

1. To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while releasing the remainder.

   The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.

   The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data.

2. (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
3. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. [from 19th c.]
4. (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc. [from 19th c.]
5. (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one. [15th-16th c.]
6. (obsolete) To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form. [15th-17th c.]
7. (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme. [16th c.]
8. (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person. [17th c.]
9. (obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable. [16th-18th c.]
10. (obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction. [16th-17th c.]

Derived terms

• redaction
• redactor
• unredact

Translations

See also

• abridge
• censor
• digest
• edit
• summarise, summarize
• bowdlerise, bowdlerize

Further reading

• redact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• redact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• redact at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• carted, cedrat, crated, traced