Omit (Verb)
Meaning 1
Prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- She had to omit her personal opinion to maintain objectivity in the article.
- The company will omit spoilers in the movie trailer to avoid giving away the plot.
- The chef decided to omit the expensive ingredient to make the dish more affordable.
- Please omit the comma in the sentence to make it grammatically correct.
- The artist chose to omit colors from the painting to emphasize emotional expression.
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Meaning 2
Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- The editor decided to omit several chapters from the final draft of the book to reduce its length.
- She made a mistake by trying to speed up the recipe and omit a crucial ingredient.
- If you omit a few words from the sentence, it will make more sense.
- The teacher asked the student to omit the decimal places in the math problem for simplicity.
- He omitted the details of his meeting with the potential client to avoid gossip.