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o·mit
(ō-mĭt′)tr.v. o·mit·ted, o·mit·ting, o·mits
1. To fail to include or mention; leave out: omitted an important detail from the report.
2.
a. To fail or neglect to do (something): omitted his daily walk during our visit.
b. To fail or neglect (to do something): I omitted to mention that I don't eat meat.
[Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere : ob-, against, away; see ob- + mittere, to send.]
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omit
(əʊˈmɪt)vb (tr) , omits, omitting or omitted
1. to neglect to do or include
2. to fail (to do something)
[C15: from Latin omittere, from ob- away + mittere to send]
omissible adj
oˈmitter n
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o•mit
(oʊˈmɪt)v.t. o•mit•ted, o•mit•ting.
1. to leave out; fail to include.
2. to forbear or fail (to do, make, use, send, etc.).
[1400–50; < Latin omittere to let go =o- o-2 + mittere to send]
o•mit′ter, n.
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Past participle: omitted
Gerund: omitting
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| Verb | 1. | omit - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" elide - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant" |
| 2. | omit - leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" forget - forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" |
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Translations
يَحْذِفيُغْفِل، لا يَفْعَل
udeladeundlade
láta ógert, sleppasleppa
praleidimaspražiūrėti
izlaistizlaist, atstāt nedarītu
izpustiti
omit
[əʊˈmɪt] VT (on purpose) → suprimir; (by accident) → olvidarse de; [+ person, person's name] → pasar por altoto omit to do sth (on purpose) → omitir hacer algo, decidir no hacer algo; (by accident) → olvidarse de hacer algo
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[əʊˈmɪt] vtCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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vt
(= leave out) → auslassen; please omit any reference to me → bitte erwähnen Sie mich nicht, bitte unterlassen Sie jeden Hinweis auf mich
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(əˈmit) – past tense, past participle oˈmitted – verb1. to leave out. You can omit the last chapter of the book.
2. not to do. I omitted to tell him about the meeting.
oˈmission (-ʃən) noun1. something that has been left out. I have made several omissions in the list of names.
2. the act of omitting. the omission of his name from the list.
omitted and omitting have two ts.
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omit
v. omitir, suprimir, excluir.
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