What's the difference between amend and redact?

Amend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better
  • (v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;
  • (v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;
  • (v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
  • (v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (2) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (3) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (4) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
  • (6) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (7) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
  • (8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
  • (9) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
  • (10) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
  • (11) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
  • (13) This article was amended on 29 January 2016 to correct statistics from the BASW survey.
  • (14) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
  • (15) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
  • (16) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
  • (17) The Vitter amendment is popular with the Tea Party, which takes it to be an accountability measure.
  • (18) They all owe their existence to him.” This article was amended on 2 July 2015 to correct the name of the hospital where Sir Nicholas Winton died.
  • (19) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
  • (20) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.

Redact


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
  • (2) The minutes – which will be redacted – are expected to shed light on the thinking at the highest level of the Bank during the crisis, when Mervyn (now Lord) King was governor.
  • (3) Rudd told the commission in his statement – in a paragraph previously redacted – that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet produced "periodic reports" on the implementation of programs to the cabinet committee and then potentially to the whole of cabinet.
  • (4) According to the MDC source, whose name the Observer has redacted, "Kofi Annan, in the recent meeting in New York during the millennium summit offered Mugabe a deal to step down.
  • (5) The fact is that torture is employed routinely across the region – the reason why the CIA used facilities in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Algeria – their names all redacted from the Senate document.
  • (6) Many will find it shocking that the redacted parts of the official version of MPs' expenses , released today, contain the very infomation that enabled the Telegraph to do its investigative work in the first place.
  • (7) The source for this information was a British security company boss, whose name has been redacted.
  • (8) still on track for a consultation to be triggered sometime next week See the email | See the text messages 15 Jun 2011 From [name redacted] DCMS lawyer: I fear I am not in a position to share an indicative target date with you Michel to Adam: She says she is not able to share it with us.
  • (9) Or are half these people too idle, not just to remove their own wasp nests, but to do their own redacting?
  • (10) The extraordinary debate late on Wednesday afternoon centred on the former prime minister's heavily redacted 31-page statement.
  • (11) Redactions to the minutes will be minimal, and confined to certain specific categories including for example the need to protect the security of the Bank and its staff, and to comply with legal requirements,” the Bank said last month.
  • (12) The political pressure had been mounting on the health regulator to reverse its decision to redact names from a damning report by the City consultants Grant Thornton after the information commissioner said the data protection act was no barrier to being transparent.
  • (13) Recently declassified and heavily redacted opinions of the special US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the Fisa court , have not made clear to what extent law enforcement agencies have unmediated access to NSA databases.
  • (14) Garcia and several members of the Fifa executive committee have called for it to be published in full, with names redacted to protect whistleblowers, in order to help restore Fifa’s battered credibility.
  • (15) And when people read these stories – so admirable in their brevity, so controlled in their emotion, so artful in their artlessness; their use, for example, of the term NAME REDACTED instead of a character’s actual name to better show what is happening to a stranger is not an individual act, but a universal crime.” In his speech, titled Does Writing Matter?
  • (16) Mobley appeared to be receiving excellent medical care in a state of the art facility,” reads the heavily redacted log , dated 30 January 2010.
  • (17) The reports were given to Phil Miller, a researcher for Corporate Watch, but vital information was redacted.
  • (18) In addition to Pantaleo’s testimony, the petitioning parties sought the release of the charges presented against the officer involved, the instructions given to the jurors, and the minutes, with certain information redacted.
  • (19) By integrating bulk data [redaction] with information about individual subjects of interest from other sources of intelligence (liaison relationships, agent reporting, intercept, eavesdropping, surveillance) and from ‘fusing’ different data-sets in order to identify common links, we can better understand target networks, locations and behaviours, enabling a greater depth and breadth of target coverage.
  • (20) But this section is also among those partly redacted by the home secretary.