Synonyms of the word

deletion

• n. An item that has been or will be deleted.
• n. The act of deleting.
• n. (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

editing

• v. present participle of edit.
• n. An act or instance of something being edited.

excision

• n. The deletion of some text during editing.
• n. (surgery) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting.
• n. (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
• n. (topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is…

mutation

• n. Any alteration or change.
• n. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
• n. A mutant.
• n. (linguistics) An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered…
• n. (rare) A collective noun for a collection of thrushes.

omission

• n. The act of omitting.
• n. The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
• n. Something deleted or left out.
• n. Something not done or neglected.
• n. (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe (') to replace the missing letters,…

redaction

• n. (countable) Edited or censored version of a document.
• n. (countable) The change or changes made while editing.
• n. (uncountable) The process of editing or censoring.

remotion

• n. (zoology, chiefly entomology) Backward motion. (Contrast promotion.).
• n. (especially logic, largely obsolete) Removal.

removal

• n. The process of moving, or the fact of being removed.
• n. The relocation of a business etc.
• n. The dismissal of someone from office.
• n. (Ireland) An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from…