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Omitting

Omit \O*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Omitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Omitting.] [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see Ob- + mittere to cause to go, let go, send. See Mission.]

  1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.

    These personal comparisons I omit.
    --Bacon.

  2. To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect; to pass over.

    Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age.
    --Addison.

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omitting

vb. (present participle of omit English)

WordNet
omit
  1. v. prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, take out] [ant: include]

  2. leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to]

  3. [also: omitting, omitted]

omitting

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Usage examples of "omitting".

One day I ventured to say that these things were but trifles after all, and that I had taken no offence at his omitting the chevalier on the letters he had written to me, though I was a knight of the same order as himself.

With frequent halts and backtrackings, and carefully omitting any mention of his tumblings with Calissa, he told Ludya of the events that had unfolded after her exile from the Manse.

I often think that I should like to have my house front on this mass of dull red bushes, omitting other flower plots and borders, transplanted spruce and trim box, even graveled walks--to have this fertile spot under my windows, not a few imported barrowfuls of soil only to cover the sand which was thrown out in digging the cellar.

Omitting any reference to TFs datebook, I told her about my visit to the Circle of Faith, and my brief encounter with the man who called himself Owen Larson.

At least twice her speech had been insufficiently deferent, even omitting the respectful term "Master.

A moment or so later the girl who made the transcript on the electric typewriter came in, smiled at me meaninglessly, and I sat down and talked an account into the little microphone on my chest of what had happened with me during the previous two days, making it brief but omitting nothing.

I laid out every detail of the case as I remembered it, but omitting all references to Joan Linwood and Bill Striker.

Omitting other Examples, I shall Instance only in the matter of Witchcraft, which on the Humane side, is one of the most hidden Works of Darkness, managed by the Rulers of the darkness of this World, to the doing of great spoil amongst the Children of men: And on the Divine side, it is one of the most awful and tremendous Judgments of God which can be inflicted on the Societies of men, especially when the Lord shall please for his own Holy Ends to Enlarge Satans Commission in more than an ordinary way.

But Rogodeter Snowl, omitting to ask permission to land a small launchcraft, almost got himself shot down.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.

Omitting some of the niceties of our previous discussion, we may say that an instrument is ACCURATE when it avoids the defects of the two boys and weather-cocks, that is to say, when-- (a) It gives different responses to stimuli which differ in relevant ways.

But a computer couldn't advise him, couldn't tell him that omitting an answer here and an answer there would upset all those delicately balanced weightings and inevitably distort the all-important win factors.