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OMIT

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Irregular inflected forms: omitted    , omitting   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leave undone or leave out

Example:

The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten

Synonyms:

drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "omit"):

forget (forget to do something)

jump; pass over; skip; skip over (bypass)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

omissible (capable of being left out)

omission (a mistake resulting from neglect)

omission (neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something)

omissive (characterized by omissions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted

Example:

Leave off the top piece

Synonyms:

except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "omit" is one way to...):

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "omit"):

elide (leave or strike out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

omissible (capable of being left out)

omission (a mistake resulting from neglect)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It's too long, but omitting the passages I've marked will make it just the right length, he said, in a businesslike tone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the beginning of the month of August of the same year.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Well, then, my first commandment is, Thou shalt not omit to shave every day.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nothing was omitted, on his side, of civility, compliment, or kindness, that might assist the plan.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I cannot acquit him of that duty; nor could I think well of the man who should omit an occasion of testifying his respect towards anybody connected with the family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A change in a document made by correction, adding, substituting or omitting a certain part.

(Amendment, NCI Thesaurus)

"But, upon my soul, I did NOT know it," he warmly replied; "I did not recollect that I had omitted to give her my direction; and common sense might have told her how to find it out."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I beg pardon—Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children—I must apologize, I had inadvertently omitted a considerable section of this audience (tumult, during which the Professor stood with one hand raised and his enormous head nodding sympathetically, as if he were bestowing a pontifical blessing upon the crowd), I have been selected to move a vote of thanks to Mr. Waldron for the very picturesque and imaginative address to which we have just listened.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A disorder characterized by the failure to use developmentally expected speech sounds that are appropriate for the individual's age (i.e., the individual makes errors in sound production or use or omits sounds such as final consonants).

(Phonological Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)