revision
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.
Inflected forms:
form: revisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: revisions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: revisioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: revisioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: revisioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The process of revising:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.
2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix,
The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .
Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.
gloss: The process of revising:
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!
gloss: A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The first thing members need to understand about a revision is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.
1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx,
However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett′s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence′s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.
2008, World Bank, page 209,
Previous editions of World Development Indicators used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data.
Include the revision number. You may need to add a triangle and number, shown in Figure 9-6, to indicate the revision number.
gloss: A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A revision story
gloss: To provide with a new vision.
pos: verb
examples: What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.
Earlier plays of the Broadway comedy genre focused on assimilation […] By re-imagining and re-visioning classic Broadway comedy as a parable of gay growth, Allen has illuminted ^([sic]) the original style and given us something new that is both fresh and funny.
Related words: review
revisal
revise
revisionary
revisionist
Derived words: nonrevision
prerevision
revisional
revision cloud
revision week
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُرَاجَعَة
roman: murājaʕa
lang: Bulgarian
word: пре́глед
roman: prégled
lang: Bulgarian
word: повторе́ние
roman: povtorénie
lang: Bulgarian
word: реви́зия
roman: revízija
lang: Catalan
word: revisió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 復習 /复习
roman: fùxí
lang: Cornish
word: amendyans
lang: Czech
word: revize
lang: Dutch
word: herziening
lang: Finnish
word: tarkastus
lang: Finnish
word: tarkistus
lang: French
word: révision
lang: German
word: Wiederholung
lang: German
word: Überarbeitung
lang: Greek
word: αναθεώρηση
roman: anatheórisi
lang: Hindi
word: पुनरीक्षण
roman: punrīkṣaṇ
lang: Indonesian
word: revisi
lang: Indonesian
word: pendaan
lang: Irish
word: athdhéanamh
lang: Italian
word: revisione
lang: Japanese
word: 復習
roman: fukushū
lang: Korean
word: 복습
roman: bokseup
lang: Māori
word: huritaotanga
lang: Portuguese
word: revisão
lang: Russian
word: повторе́ние
roman: povtorénije
lang: Russian
word: пересмо́тр
roman: peresmótr
lang: Russian
word: реви́зия
roman: revízija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sùil air ais
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ath-sgrùdadh
lang: Spanish
word: revisión
lang: Spanish
word: corrección
lang: Tagalog
word: mulinyos
lang: Ukrainian
word: повто́рення
roman: povtórennja