What's the difference between redact and write?

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.

Write


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
  • (v. t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
  • (v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
  • (v. t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
  • (v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
  • (v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
  • (v. i.) To compose or send letters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (3) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (5) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
  • (6) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (7) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
  • (8) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
  • (10) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
  • (11) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
  • (12) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (13) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
  • (14) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (15) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (16) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (17) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
  • (18) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
  • (19) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
  • (20) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.