prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
Used in a Sentence
omit
How to use omit in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for omit.
Editorial note
In haskell, you can omit them if you want.
Examples14
Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of omit gathered in one view.
leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for omit.
verb
prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
verb
leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
See also: neglect, pretermit, drop, miss, overlook, overleap
Example sentences
In haskell, you can omit them if you want.
I'll omit the half that makes my argument look bad.
Don't omit punctuation just because you can if it makes the code less readable.
It omits to mention that a significant amount of cyanide was found in his stomach in liquid form.
We probably want a runtime-less Rust to allow users who aren't using tasks at all to just omit the whole system, though.
Even with a type system -- if you just omit the effects, the compiler really has no way to know that you meant the effects to happen, and you will simply have a bug.
The committee didn't omit such a wrapper because they couldn't accomplish it, they ommitted it as a deliberate design decision.
I'm not aware of any evidence that says we only have a limited number of facts that our brains can absorb and it's vital to omit older stuff so we can absorb the newer.
Heck, we couldn't even find the collision detector!To all those folks out there who keep finding reasons to try and be clever with their language, or omit comments from their code: now you can remember Pinball.
You'll be able to confirm pretty much any widely believed health folk wisdom, unless it's something quite harmful, as long as you omit health-consciousness as a variable.
These really are two completely different objectives, and sometimes, if your objective is to persuade and explain, then you have to omit certain opinions of your own which will detract from your point.
But that doesn't change the fact that the omit-the-semicolons position is absurdly immature hipster posturing that serves no engineering purpose.
There isn't some giant conspiracy to omit facts -- sometimes the person redacts too much, other times they screw up, etc. I've had names redacted on one page, only to appear non-redacted a few pages later.
Certainly as a graduate student I was pressured by my advisor to explain things clearly, to add examples and exposition to my papers, to omit technical details from talks, and in general to keep in mind the perspective of the non-expert.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use omit in a sentence?
In haskell, you can omit them if you want.
What does omit mean?
prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
What part of speech is omit?
omit is commonly used as verb.