Omit
[ə(ʊ)'mɪt] or [ə'mɪt]
Definition
(v. t.) To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
(v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.
Editor: Vlad
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Leave out, not mention.[2]. Neglect, miss, let slip, let go, pass by.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Neglect, fail, miss, leave_out, pass_by, overlook,[See NEGLECT]
Checker: Merle
Definition
v.t. to leave out: to neglect: to fail: to make no use of:—pr.p. omit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. omit′ted.—adj. Omiss′ible that may be omitted.—n. Omiss′ion act of omitting: the neglect or failure to do something required: that which is left out.—adj. Omiss′ive omitting or leaving out.—n. Omit′tance the act of omitting: the state of being omitted: forbearance.
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Examples
- He did not omit being sometimes directly before Miss Smith, or speaking to those who were close to her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Then omit nothing, however slight. Plato. The Republic.
- That was a phrase he might omit. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I omit the date. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am leaving out our colleges, just as I give Mr. Thornton leave to omit his factories in speaking of the charms of Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is not a subject on which I would willingly dwell, and yet I am conscious that a duty devolves upon me to omit no detail. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nor should we omit to notice, as one of the causes that have contributed to the production of cheap literature, the art of stereotyping, which has been perfected during the present century. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Veneerings find with swift remorse that they have omitted to invite Miss Bella Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I will do my best, I said; but I should think that a great deal will have to be omitted. Plato. The Republic.
- Of course he fell in the canal and was nearly drowned; few boys in Milan worth their salt omitted that performance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There is not an unnecessary motion made by any one, and there is not one necessary thing omitted, whatever the cost or trouble. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After that, Mr. Brooke remembered that there was a packet which he had omitted to send off from the Grange, and he bade everybody hurriedly good-by. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their time being limited (no one knew why) they had omitted France. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I will compress the story as far as may be done without omitting anything vital to the case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's too long, but omitting the passages I've marked will make it just the right length, he said, in a businesslike tone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Not omitting his wife, who is the other dearest friend I have in the world; and I positively declare I forgot their baby, who is the other. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Therewith Miss Jenny related what had come to pass in the Albany, omitting the few grains of pepper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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