Editor vs Miscellanist - What's the difference?
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A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
A copy editor.
A person who edited a specific document.
* John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
A person at a newspaper or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish.
* John is the city editor at the ''Daily Times''.
A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
(computer software) A program for creating]] and [[make, making changes to files, especially text files.
* The TPU EVE editor''' is an excellent, extensible, programmable '''editor .
(television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
Having the characteristics of a miscellany.
* 2002 , Sadhana Naithani, "To Tell a Tale Untold: Two Folklorists in Colonial India," Journal of Folklore Research , vol. 39, no. 2/3, p. 205:
An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.
* 1889 , , Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age , 5th series, vol. 66,
* 1942 , , "The Maker of Modern Japan'' by A. L. Sadler" (book review), ''Pacific Historical Review , vol. 11, no. 1, p. 89:
* 1993 , Richard B. Wolf, "Shaftesbury's Just Measure of Irony," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 , vol. 33, no. 2, p. 582:
As nouns the difference between editor and miscellanist
is that editor is a person who edits or makes changes to documents while miscellanist is an author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.As an adjective miscellanist is
having the characteristics of a miscellany.editor
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(en noun)Derived terms
* copy editor * flatbed editor * editorial * editorializing * * editor-in-chief * editAnagrams
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miscellanist
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Adjective
(-)- Punjab Notes and Queries . . . was ethnographic and miscellanist in nature, but its organization was confused.
Noun
(en noun)p. 492:
- Leigh Hunt tried almost every conceivable kind of literature, including a historical novel. . . . All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist .
- Professor Sadler relied heavily on a voluminous work (still unfinished, although some 60 volumes have already been published) by Tokutomi Iichiro, History of the Japanese People in Modern Times . Unfortunately, this Japanese journalist, a prolific writer and a miscellanist , is not accepted as a historian among scholars.
- In Miscellaneous Reflections'', however, Shaftesbury's approach underwent a significant change. Although the miscellanist persona's presence there is felt in a relatively small part of the work, his ironic celebration of the modern art of patchwork wit and his other manufactured ironies recall Swift's satiric ploys in ''A Tale of a Tub .