What's the difference between edit and expurgate?

Edit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
  • (2) In contrast, edited versions of CYb, COII, and COIII RNAs were not cleaved within the editing domains.
  • (3) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
  • (4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (5) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
  • (6) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (7) The English edition of the CIM-O has just been published, and its version in French is in the progress of preparation.
  • (8) Once outside the body they can be purified, expanded in culture, and checked via genome sequencing to ensure the editing has been successful.
  • (9) Last week, Park offered a public apology after acknowledging Choi had edited some of her speeches and provided help with public relations, but South Korea’s media have speculated Choi played a much larger, secret role in government affairs.
  • (10) Analysis of the region between nucleotides 6200 and 6900 of the cDNA did not detect any prevalent alternate editing sites.
  • (11) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
  • (12) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
  • (13) Quantitation of the ratio of apoB-48 to apoB-100 mRNA at the different time points showed that RNA editing became highly competent prenatally on Day 19 of gestation in the small intestine, but postnatally on Day 24 after birth in the liver.
  • (14) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
  • (15) • This is an edited extract from Feminism & Men by Nikki van der Gaag , published by Zed Books.
  • (16) It’s a super-addictive yet deeply challenging game of resource management, based on a popular PC game – complete with its expansion edition.
  • (17) The article was further amended on 9 October 2012 to correct an editing error that attributed a quote saying that the film of Midnight's Children "slathers on the chutney" to its director, rather than to the Press Trust of India.
  • (18) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
  • (19) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
  • (20) Perhaps he modified his language for the NY Times reporter, but the more likely explanation is that his swearing added nothing and was therefore omitted by the writer or edited out; in America, even in liberal New York, profanities still need to be argued into print.

Expurgate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One approach is less aggressive, whether as to the expurgation or excision of the surrounding area of the breast; in certain cases, treatment may be combined with radiation and the surgery minimized.
  • (2) Over a period of seven months, we evaluated the effect of this maneuver for 125 consecutive patients by means of (1) a report on the patient's reactions, completed by a nurse after she reviewed the record with the patient; (2) a report by the physician stating whether he had expurgated the record for patient use, and recording his observations of patient and family reaction; (3) a questionnaire mailed to patients after discharge.
  • (3) the clearing of the theoretical field through expurgating all pre-scientific ideologies jeopardizing the growth of scientific concepts; and b) a positive-constructive one, or the actual building up of a science through the production of the formal-abstract object, using ontically indeterminate raw material.
  • (4) The film's absence from our screens is almost as long as the 30-year ban on Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was, of course, always available in an expurgated version.
  • (5) Thus, it was considered that axillary expurgation was needed, but that excision of nodes in the cerebrum and cerebellum was not essential in every case.