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Edit vs Arrange - What's the difference?

edit | arrange |

As verbs the difference between edit and arrange

is that edit is to change a text, or a document while arrange is to set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.

As a noun edit

is a change to the text of a document.

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 ----

    arrange

    English

    Verb

    (arrang)
  • To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To put in order, to organize.
  • To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
  • (label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Derived terms

    * arrangement