Omit
Meaning of Omit
To leave out or fail to include.
ما معنى كلمة Omit بالعربي؟
يحذف أو يُغفل
🚫✂️ يحذف أو يُغفل؛ يترك شيئاً دون ذكر أو تضمين؛ فعل إسقاط أو استبعاد عنصر ما من قائمة أو نص أو عمل بشكل متعمد أو سهواً ✂️❌
قصة GL: يحذف أو يُغفل - نايف العيسى لم يحذف أي تفصيل من قياسات HBDNF التي أثبتت زيادة 88.77% - ترك شيء دون ذكر قد يُضيّع اكتشافات علمية عظيمة، لذا فعل الإسقاط في البحث العلمي غير مقبول في منهج التعلُّم الجيني 🔬
Omit in a sentence
Researchers must not omit unfavourable data.
The report omitted a key cost.
An applicant must not omit prior art from the filing.
Pupils omit a step when they rush.
Origin of Omit
From Latin omittere, from ob- + mittere 'to send'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, omit means to leave out. Genetic Invent never omits results that do not fit.
Omit audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is deceptively quiet, yet extraordinarily powerful — omit.
Narrator: Omit — to leave out or exclude is a verb, pronounced oh-MIT, with the IPA /əˈmɪt/.
Narrator: To omit means to leave out or exclude — to not include something that could or should be there.
Narrator: The word entered English in the 15th century from the Latin omittere — a compound of ob, meaning away, and mittere, meaning to send or let go.
Narrator: So at its etymological root, to omit is to send something away — to deliberately release it from the whole.
Narrator: Omit can be neutral — you omit irrelevant details from a report, which is simply good editing.
Narrator: Or it can carry a moral weight — to omit crucial information in a legal context can be a form of deception.
Narrator: The word implies intention. You do not accidentally omit something — you choose to leave it out.
Narrator: This distinguishes omit from words like miss or overlook, which suggest accident rather than decision.
Narrator: In grammar, an omission is a word or phrase deliberately or accidentally left out. In law, omission can constitute negligence.
Narrator: Omit sits in a formal to neutral register — common in academic, legal, technical, and professional writing.
Narrator: In a world of too much information, knowing what to omit is perhaps the most underrated skill of all.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: I sent the report and immediately realised I'd omitted the executive summary. Had to resend the whole thing.
Speaker B: Oh, that's painful. An executive summary is the one thing senior readers actually read.
Speaker A: Exactly. And it reminded me how much weight the word omit carries — it's not just forgetting something.
Speaker B: Right. Omit implies a decision, or at least a deliberate act. Miss or overlook suggest accident. Omit is more pointed.
Speaker A: And in legal contexts especially — deliberately omitting information from a contract or statement can have serious consequences.
Speaker B: Yes, an omission in law can be as significant as a commission — what you didn't say can be as damning as what you did.
Speaker A: On the other hand, good writing is all about knowing what to omit. A tight argument cuts everything non-essential.
Speaker B: Absolutely. Elmore Leonard's famous rule: omit the parts readers tend to skip. It's the editor's core skill.
Speaker A: Synonyms — exclude, leave out, drop, skip. But omit is more formal and deliberate than skip, and more specific than exclude.
Speaker B: And don't confuse omit with emit — a common spelling mistake. To emit is to send out, like heat or sound. To omit is to leave out.
Speaker A: Very different words. Omit removes; emit releases.
Speaker B: Put like that, it is rather elegant. The art of omission is the art of deciding what the world does not need to hear.
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Today: the word omit in AI prompt engineering. This one is immediately practical — omit is a precision instruction.
Speaker A: Yes — when you want to exclude something from the output, omit is far more decisive than don't include or skip.
Speaker B: Exactly. Omit is a command. Short, unambiguous, final. Let's start with UI design.
Speaker B: PROMPT 1
Speaker A: Omit the sidebar — the AI doesn't guess, doesn't add a collapsed version, just removes it. Precise.
Speaker B: Right. Scenario two — API design.
Speaker B: PROMPT 2
Speaker A: Omit sensitive fields from the API response — so the AI knows: security concern, don't expose this data.
Speaker B: Scenario three — database query.
Speaker B: PROMPT 3
Speaker A: Omit deleted records — so the query filters out soft-deleted rows automatically. One word, clear behaviour.
Speaker B: Now — a dashboard for HR.
Speaker B: PROMPT 4
Speaker A: Omit archived employees — so the active headcount view stays clean. No clutter from inactive records.
Speaker B: Scenario five — full application.
Speaker B: PROMPT 5
Speaker A: Omit the registration page — so the AI builds a login-only app. Direct and unambiguous.
Speaker B: And final — report generation.
Speaker B: PROMPT 6
Speaker A: Omit zero-value rows — so the financial report only shows meaningful data. Clean and professional output.
Speaker B: Omit is a scalpel, not a hammer. One word removes exactly what you mean and nothing else.
Build a clean dashboard layout — omit the sidebar entirely. Full-width content area, top navigation only, with a collapsible filter panel at the top right.
Design a REST API for a user profile endpoint — omit sensitive fields such as password hash, internal IDs, and payment tokens from the JSON response.
Write a SQL query to list all active orders — omit deleted records by filtering where deleted_at is null. Include customer name, total, and status columns.
Build an HR headcount dashboard — omit archived employees. Show only active staff, grouped by department, with headcount totals and a trend chart.
Build a secure admin login app — omit the registration page. Admins are pre-created in the database. Include two-factor authentication and session timeout.
Generate a monthly financial report — omit any rows where the value is zero. Show department, budget, actual spend, and variance. Export to PDF and CSV.
Frequently asked questions about Omit
What does Omit mean?
To leave out or fail to include.
ما معنى كلمة Omit بالعربي؟
يحذف أو يُغفل — 🚫✂️ يحذف أو يُغفل؛ يترك شيئاً دون ذكر أو تضمين؛ فعل إسقاط أو استبعاد عنصر ما من قائمة أو نص أو عمل بشكل متعمد أو سهواً ✂️❌
How do you pronounce Omit?
Omit is pronounced /əʊˈmɪt/ and is used as a verb.
How is Omit used in a sentence?
Researchers must not omit unfavourable data.
What are synonyms of Omit?
leave out, exclude, skip, miss, drop, overlook.