omito‧mit /əʊˈmɪt, ə- $ oʊ-, ə-/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle omitted, present participle omitting) [transitive] 
Please don’t omit any details, no matter how trivial they may seem.omit something from something Lisa’s name had been omitted from the list of honor students.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say leave out rather than omit:· Please don’t leave out any details, no matter how trivial they may seem.2omit to do something formal to not do something, either because you forgot or because you deliberately didn’t do itomit to mention/say/tell etc Oliver omitted to mention that he was married.
WORD ORIGINomit
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin omittereVERB TABLE
omit
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | omit |
| he, she, it | omits | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | omitted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have omitted |
| he, she, it | has omitted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had omitted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will omit |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have omitted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am omitting |
| he, she, it | is omitting | |
| you, we, they | are omitting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was omitting |
| you, we, they | were omitting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been omitting |
| he, she, it | has been omitting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been omitting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be omitting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been omitting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In his presentation of the theorem, Kelvin omitted many details.
- Please do not omit any details, however trivial they may seem.
- Quady's name had been omitted from the list of honor students.
- But the fact that Johann Heinrich Silbermann omitted the check in his action remains intriguing.
- Companies do sometimes give incorrect details or omit them altogether on their company stationery.
- Disappointingly, the exhibition omits Rauschenberg's portrait and still-life photography, which is richly illustrated in the catalogue.
- I committed or omitted, however you want to put it - it's all the same thing.
- It marked the first time in a decade that the centers' annual request for injury-research proposals omitted firearms violence.
- It would have been better if they had been omitted.
- No doubt that story contained many scientific theories which she had had to omit from her tale, being unable to comprehend them.
THESAURUS
formal to deliberately not include someone or something, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair: · The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.
formal to not include something, especially a piece of information, either deliberately or because you forget: · Sara’s name had been omitted from the list of employees.
to not include someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally. Leave out is more common in everyday English than exclude or omit: · Fans were shocked that Giggs had been left out of the team.· You must have left out one of the numbers.
British to not include someone or something that should be included, often by mistake: · You missed out several important facts.· They’ve missed out the last letter of his name.
to decide not to include someone or something – used especially about not including someone in a team: · He was dropped from the team because of injury.· The company decided to drop the word ‘healthy’ from its advertising.
formal used when saying that a rule, law, agreement etc does not affect someone or something: · People with bad eyesight were exempt from military service.· High technology equipment would be exempted from any trade agreement.
Longman Language Activatorto not do something that you should do · I haven't done my taxes yet and they're due next week.· The electrician came round yesterday, but he didn't do all the jobs I asked him to do.· She was afraid that if she didn't do what her boss told her she would be fired.
to not try to help someone or prevent a bad situation, even though you know it is happening: · How could neighbors listen to her scream and do nothing?do nothing/not do anything about: · We told the police months ago, but they still haven't done anything about it.do nothing/not do anything to do something: · No one did anything to stop the purse snatcher.
formal to do nothing, especially when this is a deliberate decision: · If you have already paid the amount shown on this bill, you need take no further action.take no action to do something: · Local police took no action to protect the family from the attacks.
formal to not do something that you should do, especially when this has serious results: · The driver of the car failed to stop in time, and the boy was killed.· If you fail to provide all the information, we will be unable to process your application.
to not do something because you do not pay enough attention or forget, especially when this could have serious results: · Marie decided not to move, but she neglected to inform the rental agency.· The public are demanding to know why the government neglected to warn them of the oil shortages.
formal to not do something, either because you forget to do it or because you deliberately choose not to do it: · Mrs Hobbs told me about the meeting but she omitted to tell me where it was.· Starr's account omits to mention that it was his own actions that caused the fire.
to not do anything to stop something bad from happening, when you should do something to show that you care about the situation: · Why did people just stand by while she was attacked?· We can't afford to just sit by and watch more of our local industry shut down.
spoken to not even move or start to do something when there is an urgent situation: · Don't just stand there - help me catch the cat!· When the fire alarm went off she just sat there as if she hadn't heard a thing.
to not include someone or something to not include someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally: leave somebody/something out of something: · Fans were shocked that Giggs had been left out of the team.leave out somebody/something: · He briefly told us what had happened, leaving out the more gruesome details.leave somebody/something out: · I went through a list of people to be thanked, and hoped I hadn't left anyone out.
formal to deliberately not include someone or something, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair: · The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.exclude somebody from something: · She felt they were deliberately excluding her from their plans.
formal to not include something, especially a piece of information, either deliberately or because you forget: · Please do not omit any details, however trivial they may seem.omit something from something: · Sara's name had been omitted from the list of employees.
British to not include someone or something that should be included, often by mistake: miss out somebody/something: · You missed out several important facts.miss somebody/something out: · Those are the people I'm inviting. Did I miss anyone out?
informal to suddenly remove something or someone from a list, plan etc, because there is a good reason for not including them: · I don't think this article will be of interest to our readers. Let's drop it.drop something from something: · The coach just announced that Henri will be dropped from the team.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Oliver omitted to mention that he was married.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Oliver omitted to mention that he was married. (=deliberately not mention something)· I omitted to mention that I had not been to university.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· What happened next ... Perhaps he should omit the details.· He omits a small detail in the form of the Government Whip.· Insist that I will not rationalise blunders, or omit details to camouflage motives.
· Deliberately she'd omitted the fact that Paula had accompanied Newman.
· Wharfe is omitted from mention in official guides to the district and doesn't mind it all.· Predictably, Communist historians omit any mention of this atrocity in their accounts of the period.· Qaddafi's account omits all mention of authority, just as Zuwaya do; and neither emphasizes the role of women.· Indeed, in its Manifesto to Members, the Institute omits any mention of members' interests.
· This can be: The final.0 of a device name may be omitted if the device is unique.
· In theory you can use the usual wedding speeches, simply omitting any references to white weddings.· Please omit any reference to me in what you write of Patrick Hamilton.· His appeal to Wilson modestly requested constitutional government, democratic freedoms and other reforms for Vietnamconspicuously omitting any reference to independence.· The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples.
· There were also the exercises that included having students omit certain words from their speech, Wirk said.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1to not include someone or something, either deliberately or because you forget to do it SYN leave out: - Mrs Hobbs told me about the meeting but she omitted to tell me where it was.
- Starr's account omits to mention that it was his own actions that caused the fire.
- Whittier omitted to mention exactly where he had gotten the money.
- He'd agreed to ring her and had omitted to leave a phone number.
- It omitted to mention how much of its ever-increasing charges it contributed to WaterAid.
- My diary records the incident in a tone of self-righteousness, omitting to mention my feeling of incompetence.
- There's one of those towns marked with an asterisk that you omitted to mention.
- To refuse or to omit to leave is as much a trespass as to originally enter without any right.
- Understandably, some less important Western figures will be omitted to make room for those from other cultures.
- What your informers may have omitted to tell you was that he indeed came to our opening.
- While receiving money due to the court, Beaumont omitted to enter the receipts in his books and pocketed the proceeds.
Please don’t omit any details, no matter how trivial they may seem.omit something from something Lisa’s name had been omitted from the list of honor students.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say leave out rather than omit:· Please don’t leave out any details, no matter how trivial they may seem.2omit to do something formal to not do something, either because you forgot or because you deliberately didn’t do itomit to mention/say/tell etc Oliver omitted to mention that he was married.