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Edit vs Adit - What's the difference?

edit | adit |

As nouns the difference between edit and adit

is that edit is an edict, type of legislative and/or judicial proclamation, originally emanating from a roman magistrate while adit is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine as contrasted to a shaft which is a vertical entry passage an adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.

edit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A change to the text of a document.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change a text, or a document.
    • I want to edit this sentence.
    Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.
  • To be the editor of a publication.
    • He edits the Bee.

    Related terms

    * editable * edition * editor * editorial

    Synonyms

    * retouch, fix up, alter

    Anagrams

    * diet * tide * tied ----

    adit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine as contrasted to a shaft which is a vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
  • * 2006 , Mike Hetman, IronMiners.com [http://www.ironminers.com/ironmines/old-mine-1.htm]:
    • The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.
  • * 2008 , Iain M. Banks, Matter , page 445:
    • The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried.

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