"proofreading" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: proofreadings [plural]
Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} proofreading (countable and uncountable, plural proofreadings)
  1. The act or process by which a document is proofread. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: proofread#Noun Related terms: proofreader Translations (act or process by which a document is proofread): 校對 (Chinese Mandarin), 校对 (jiàoduì) (Chinese Mandarin), oikoluku (Finnish), Korrekturlesen [neuter] (German), Korrektorat [neuter] (German), korrektúra (Hungarian), korrektúrázás (Hungarian), nyelvi ellenőrzés (note: also including copyediting, usage, style etc.) (Hungarian), prófarkalestur [masculine] (Icelandic), 校正 (kōsei) (alt: こうせい) (Japanese), korrekturlesning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), корректу́ра (korrektúra) [feminine] (Russian), вы́читка (výčitka) (Russian), revisión (de texto, del escrito) [feminine, usually] (Spanish), korrekturläsning [common-gender] (Swedish), balibasa (Tagalog), himali (Tagalog), prawfddarllen (Welsh)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: proof-reading

Verb

Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} proofreading
  1. present participle and gerund of proofread Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: proofread
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Synonyms: proof-reading

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.