revise
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsō, from re- + vīsō (“examine”), frequentative of videō (“see”).
Inflected forms:
form: revises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: revising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: revised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: revised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: revises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
pos: verb
examples: This statute should be revised.
There has been a demand for a revised edition of my English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur′an since the end of the Second World War.
1983, Willard Scott Thompson, Chapter 1: The Third World Revisited, Willard Scott Thompson (editor), The Third World: Premises of U.S. Policy, Revised edition, page 15,
The chapter that deals specifically with singular examples is Daniel Pipes′ revised study of the Third World peoples of Soviet Central Asia.
The best writers know better. They write a first draft not to show readers, but to discover what case they can make for their point and whether it stands up to their own scrutiny. Then they revise and revise until they think their readers will think so too.
gloss: To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: I've only just begun to revise for my exams.
In revising your notes, you can also reorganize them so that they are more legible, better arranged, and in a more useful condition for subsequent reviews.
4 Is it necessary to revise vocabulary (= study it again for a second or third time)?
5 Is it better to revise vocabulary occasionally for long periods of time, or is it better to revise regularly for short periods of time?
2008, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Chapter 19: How to build your memory and revise effectively, Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University, SAGE Publications, UK, page 273.
gloss: To look at again, to reflect on.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: A review or a revision.
pos: noun
gloss: A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
pos: noun
examples: The question is, not whether the revises of the Catalogue, which I was obliged to circulate prematurely, were faultless, but whether the alterations which I was desired to make would not render them worse.
1869 August 16, Anthony Trollope, letter to W. H. Bradbury, 1983, N. John Hall (editor), The Letters of Anthony Trollope, Volume 1: 1835-1870, page 479,
Looking back at the revises of Bullhampton it seems to me that the printers have fallen into some error as to the numbering of Chapters XXXIV—XXXV—XXXVI—which should have been XXXV—XXXVI— and XXXVII.
1917, United States Congress: House Committee on Rules, Alleged Divulgence of President′s note to Belligerent Powers, page 1440,
I still held the revises; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.
[…]until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises, so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.
Related words: revision
revisable
revisal
reviser
revisory
revisionism
revisionist
Derived words: misrevise
rerevise
revised
revisee
revisor
nonrevised
revise one's priors
revisingly
unrevised
press revise
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