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Elaboration vs Edit - What's the difference?

elaboration | edit |

As nouns the difference between elaboration and edit

is that elaboration is drawing up, putting together, creation while edit is an edict, type of legislative and/or judicial proclamation, originally emanating from a roman magistrate.

elaboration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
  • (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
  • (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * retouch, fix up, alter

    Anagrams

    * diet * tide * tied ----