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Definition of revise in English: reviseverb rɪˈvʌɪzrəˈvaɪz 1Examine and make corrections or alterations to (written or printed matter) the book was published in 1960 and revised in 1968 Example sentencesExamples - On the other hand, I've had past clients call asking to either revise or reprint old projects.
- Middletown's finance director said revised forms were sent out immediately at a cost of $5,500.
- This Fifth Edition of Endurance and Endeavour has been substantially revised to take advantage of the new material.
- Writing students learn to follow a prewrite, outline, write, and revise pattern.
- It's very similar to school, when you would revise and revise plays.
- This is the second edition of an outstanding book; it has been revised and updated thoroughly.
- A two hour lecture takes a week to prepare, revise, proofread, and create handouts for.
- Years of comparative idleness enabled him to write and revise the Arcadia, and to complete the Defence of Poetry, The Lady of May, and Astrophel and Stella.
- As the author says in his introduction, this second edition has been completely revised, and enlarged by the addition of the three chapters on beauty.
- Publishers of major travel guides are busy revising their New York editions to reflect the city's violently altered landscape.
- Since then, Before the Mayflower has been published in seven editions that have been revised and updated.
- Between 1594 and 1602 he produced plays for the Admiral's Men, after which he concentrated on writing pageants for the city of London and on revising the Survey of London by John Stow.
- Compared with the originally submitted Statement the fully revised Statement includes additional information on various matters.
- There is an English instructional book based on the books written by Doshu and there are revised editions of it as well.
- When you write for an audience, you get your thoughts down on paper, seek feedback and revise extensively.
- I had started revising a novel I had begun writing in 1996, which I had never got right.
- I will try and write as I revise, but don't expect quick updates, because I really want to concentrate on my studies.
- Deb wrote that this book has been revised and updated; for the record, I read the original 1985 edition.
- Osmond expects his words to be written over hers - he expects to revise her to suit himself, rather than to read her to understand who she is.
- We hope to have an improved and revised one in major bookstores within a year.
Synonyms amend, emend, correct, alter, change, adapt, edit, copy-edit, rewrite, redraft, rescript, recast, rephrase, rework, update, revamp - 1.1 Reconsider and amend (something), especially in the light of further evidence or to reflect a changed situation.
the agency revised its procedures in as a result of the fire he had cause to revise his opinion a moment after expressing it Example sentencesExamples - How would the uses of the prints in a devotional context revise Gauguin's notion of the function of his own sacred art?
- Shocked economists and policymakers are scrambling to revise their growth forecasts downward.
- Also, there is a need to revise the Food Guide Pyramid to reflect the Dietary Guidelines.
- The Municipal Law of the City was revised in 1884 to regulate drains.
- After all, the reason any of us writes history is to revise established views of the subject; otherwise we could not claim to be making a contribution.
- So much so, the timetable has been revised to allow for an extra trip each day.
- You may shudder to learn that the government has revised its hurricane forecast for the season that began June 1 for the worst.
- By 1998, as the budget began to blowout, the figure was revised upwards to 23 percent.
- Congress will likely revise it to include only students who are convicted while they are in school.
- We might also note and heed the willingness of those whose positions have cost them a great deal to rethink and revise their assumptions in the light of a changing world.
- Appointment systems for health services may need to be revised to allow time for shared decision making.
- MS services in Orkney are being completely revised in an attempt to bring patient care up to a national standard.
- In recent years, inheritance law has been revised to allow women to inherit more easily.
- The proposed plans would allow employers to reduce overtime payments, revise pension plans and impose more flexible work hours.
- The Constitution has been amended, laws have been revised.
- The outlook on the long-term ratings was revised to stable from positive.
- But real consumer spending and business investment on new equipment were revised higher.
- Never mind, Asia can manage minus the mea culpa - as long as the agency listens to the region more and revises its policies in light of experience.
- But later, the route may be revised as the investors also want to serve the city center.
- Charity looked at her in genuine alarm and was rewarded with a wink that made her revise her opinion of her cousin slightly upwards.
Synonyms reconsider, review, re-examine, reassess, re-evaluate, reappraise, rethink, think over, take another look at, take a fresh look at, look at in a different light, have another think about
2British no object Reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination. students frantically revising for exams with object revise your lecture notes on the topic Example sentencesExamples - I was revising for my exams at University and got to the point where I was loaded with facts, so I took off for a walk round the lake.
- Over the next few weeks my posts might be a bit sporadic as my exam is due in October and I have a mighty rush to complete the course work, do the last assignment and revise.
- This site offers many resources for students revising for their A level exams, including revision notes and questions, help and advice.
- And she says they often sit around the dining table together to complete homework or revise.
- I then know that i am going into the exam fully prepared and also it is easier to revise from concise notes.
- Bear in mind this was the school holidays, and when you're not quite thirteen there's not a lot to do except, it seems, revise Latin, read the dictionary and play with your little brother's Scalextrix.
- She's concentrating on her weakest subject to revise, which is English Lit.
- This is a table where they list dates, details of the subject they are revising and what results they'd like to achieve by when.
- Xola used to drag me to a secluded spot, with a biology book in his hands, to revise and prepare for the exams.
- 46 is the number of weeks 11 to 18 year old students spend revising for and doing exams.
- Firstly I went out for a meal for one friend's birthday, very civilized, if a tad dull at points - mainly cos we're all either in the middle of exams or revising for them and therefore tired and boring.
- I had eight exams to revise for over Christmas and no study leave.
- No wonder the students are now revising busily and everyone is keen to impress their businesslike attitude and the desire for foreign investment upon any foreigner who will listen.
- Rose expert Shirley said she caught the gardening bug at the age of 15, when she was supposed to be revising for exams - choosing instead to spend the time tending her parents' garden.
- There's a lot more than revising for exams that gets students of Jawaharlal Nehru University out of their beds in the wee hours of the morning.
- You still have to revise and prepare thoroughly for the examination and not try to rely on finding the information whilst in the exam hall.
- It was a favourite place for students to revise for examinations.
- There are tutorials and classes going on, and students revising for exams yet to come, in the Merton Street area.
- Relax on Friday night, revise Saturday and Sunday, then try to remain calm on Monday before the exam.
- Lucy, meanwhile, likes the top-floor balcony in her room, where she spends sunny days revising for her GCSE exams.
Synonyms go over, reread, run through, study, memorize cram informal bone up on British informal swot up (on), mug up (on), swot
noun rɪˈvʌɪzrəˈvaɪz Printing A proof including corrections made in an earlier proof. I handed in the revises this morning Example sentencesExamples - The present work was set up in slips, but the corrections have been unusually large, and the revises frequent.
- Amid the chaos sits old-timer Howard, the revise sub-editor, who still remembers the days when journalists knew that Woking wasn't in Kent and that battalion has two Ts.
- These proofs date from the same period of revision exemplified by the large corpus of revises that came in late April and throughout May.
Synonyms page proof, galley proof, galley, pull, slip, trial print
Derivatives adjective rɪˈvʌɪzəb(ə)lrəˈvaɪzəb(ə)l Throughout U.S. history, the relationship among these basic rights has always been fluid and revisable. Example sentencesExamples - The case for supposing that logic and mathematics are revisable in the light of empirical inquiry remains, therefore, at best unproved.
- And this is the occasion in which we come to understand that what we take to be ‘real’ is, in fact, a changeable and revisable reality.
- A shared overarching global polity would embody this intimation in continuously revisable structures dedicated to promoting the common good insofar as this can be agreed upon.
- The import of these claims seems to be that Kant believed that the racial classification he offered was a necessary truth, based on reason alone, and neither derived from experience nor revisable in the light of experience.
noun rɪˈvʌɪz(ə)lrəˈvaɪz(ə)l We used to read the first book of Euclid, but regularly as we reached the dreadful pass we were turned back for a revisal. Example sentencesExamples - It featured not only plays, each one of them subjected to ‘a careful revisal,’ but also Murphy's contributions to The Gray's Inn Journal.
noun rɪˈvʌɪzərəˈvaɪzər He is a tireless reviser, a believer in the process of writing. Example sentencesExamples - Yeats was also an irrepressible reviser of his own poems: ‘It is myself that I remake,’ he said to readers who missed the earlier versions of poems they'd come to love.
- If journalism is the first draft of history, reporters can assist the revisers by dutifully noting their sources.
- Not a word or tone could be altered without the reviser being accused of being a modern anti-revolutionist.
- Like Bonnard, Max is an obsessive reviser, unable to step away from the canvas and declare the pictures complete.
adjective Even Jardine appears to get a small makeover from Guha's revisory pen. Example sentencesExamples - Natalie Fryde is quoted to the exclusion of important later revisory work.
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'look again or repeatedly (at)'): from French réviser 'look at', or Latin revisere 'look at again', from re- 'again' + visere (intensive form of videre 'to see'). vision from Middle English: A vision initially referred to a ‘supernatural apparition’; it comes via Old French from Latin from videre ‘to see’. Revise (mid 16th century) originally ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’ is from the same source, as is provide (Late Middle English). Visit (Middle English) is from visare ‘view’ formed from videre while visual (Late Middle English) is from visus ‘sight’, again from videre. See also advice
Rhymes advise, apprise, apprize, arise, assize, capsize, chastise, comprise, demise, despise, devise, downsize, excise, flies, guise, incise, low-rise, misprize, outsize, previse, prise, prize, remise, rise, size, surmise, surprise, uprise, wise Definition of revise in US English: reviseverbrəˈvaɪzrəˈvīz [with object]1Re-examine and make alterations to (written or printed matter) the book was published in 1960 and revised in 1968 Example sentencesExamples - On the other hand, I've had past clients call asking to either revise or reprint old projects.
- We hope to have an improved and revised one in major bookstores within a year.
- This Fifth Edition of Endurance and Endeavour has been substantially revised to take advantage of the new material.
- This is the second edition of an outstanding book; it has been revised and updated thoroughly.
- There is an English instructional book based on the books written by Doshu and there are revised editions of it as well.
- Middletown's finance director said revised forms were sent out immediately at a cost of $5,500.
- Between 1594 and 1602 he produced plays for the Admiral's Men, after which he concentrated on writing pageants for the city of London and on revising the Survey of London by John Stow.
- I had started revising a novel I had begun writing in 1996, which I had never got right.
- Since then, Before the Mayflower has been published in seven editions that have been revised and updated.
- As the author says in his introduction, this second edition has been completely revised, and enlarged by the addition of the three chapters on beauty.
- Osmond expects his words to be written over hers - he expects to revise her to suit himself, rather than to read her to understand who she is.
- When you write for an audience, you get your thoughts down on paper, seek feedback and revise extensively.
- It's very similar to school, when you would revise and revise plays.
- Deb wrote that this book has been revised and updated; for the record, I read the original 1985 edition.
- Compared with the originally submitted Statement the fully revised Statement includes additional information on various matters.
- A two hour lecture takes a week to prepare, revise, proofread, and create handouts for.
- I will try and write as I revise, but don't expect quick updates, because I really want to concentrate on my studies.
- Writing students learn to follow a prewrite, outline, write, and revise pattern.
- Publishers of major travel guides are busy revising their New York editions to reflect the city's violently altered landscape.
- Years of comparative idleness enabled him to write and revise the Arcadia, and to complete the Defence of Poetry, The Lady of May, and Astrophel and Stella.
Synonyms amend, emend, correct, alter, change, adapt, edit, copy-edit, rewrite, redraft, rescript, recast, rephrase, rework, update, revamp - 1.1 Reconsider and amend (something), especially in the light of further evidence or to reflect a changed situation.
the agency revised its procedures in as a result of the fire he had cause to revise his opinion a moment after expressing it Example sentencesExamples - The outlook on the long-term ratings was revised to stable from positive.
- Appointment systems for health services may need to be revised to allow time for shared decision making.
- But later, the route may be revised as the investors also want to serve the city center.
- In recent years, inheritance law has been revised to allow women to inherit more easily.
- Congress will likely revise it to include only students who are convicted while they are in school.
- After all, the reason any of us writes history is to revise established views of the subject; otherwise we could not claim to be making a contribution.
- Shocked economists and policymakers are scrambling to revise their growth forecasts downward.
- MS services in Orkney are being completely revised in an attempt to bring patient care up to a national standard.
- The proposed plans would allow employers to reduce overtime payments, revise pension plans and impose more flexible work hours.
- We might also note and heed the willingness of those whose positions have cost them a great deal to rethink and revise their assumptions in the light of a changing world.
- You may shudder to learn that the government has revised its hurricane forecast for the season that began June 1 for the worst.
- By 1998, as the budget began to blowout, the figure was revised upwards to 23 percent.
- The Municipal Law of the City was revised in 1884 to regulate drains.
- So much so, the timetable has been revised to allow for an extra trip each day.
- But real consumer spending and business investment on new equipment were revised higher.
- The Constitution has been amended, laws have been revised.
- Never mind, Asia can manage minus the mea culpa - as long as the agency listens to the region more and revises its policies in light of experience.
- Also, there is a need to revise the Food Guide Pyramid to reflect the Dietary Guidelines.
- How would the uses of the prints in a devotional context revise Gauguin's notion of the function of his own sacred art?
- Charity looked at her in genuine alarm and was rewarded with a wink that made her revise her opinion of her cousin slightly upwards.
Synonyms reconsider, review, re-examine, reassess, re-evaluate, reappraise, rethink, think over, take another look at, take a fresh look at, look at in a different light, have another think about
2British no object Reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination. students frantically revising for exams with object revise your lecture notes on the topic Example sentencesExamples - Lucy, meanwhile, likes the top-floor balcony in her room, where she spends sunny days revising for her GCSE exams.
- I was revising for my exams at University and got to the point where I was loaded with facts, so I took off for a walk round the lake.
- Over the next few weeks my posts might be a bit sporadic as my exam is due in October and I have a mighty rush to complete the course work, do the last assignment and revise.
- There's a lot more than revising for exams that gets students of Jawaharlal Nehru University out of their beds in the wee hours of the morning.
- And she says they often sit around the dining table together to complete homework or revise.
- No wonder the students are now revising busily and everyone is keen to impress their businesslike attitude and the desire for foreign investment upon any foreigner who will listen.
- Firstly I went out for a meal for one friend's birthday, very civilized, if a tad dull at points - mainly cos we're all either in the middle of exams or revising for them and therefore tired and boring.
- I had eight exams to revise for over Christmas and no study leave.
- You still have to revise and prepare thoroughly for the examination and not try to rely on finding the information whilst in the exam hall.
- Bear in mind this was the school holidays, and when you're not quite thirteen there's not a lot to do except, it seems, revise Latin, read the dictionary and play with your little brother's Scalextrix.
- There are tutorials and classes going on, and students revising for exams yet to come, in the Merton Street area.
- 46 is the number of weeks 11 to 18 year old students spend revising for and doing exams.
- Relax on Friday night, revise Saturday and Sunday, then try to remain calm on Monday before the exam.
- She's concentrating on her weakest subject to revise, which is English Lit.
- This is a table where they list dates, details of the subject they are revising and what results they'd like to achieve by when.
- Xola used to drag me to a secluded spot, with a biology book in his hands, to revise and prepare for the exams.
- I then know that i am going into the exam fully prepared and also it is easier to revise from concise notes.
- It was a favourite place for students to revise for examinations.
- This site offers many resources for students revising for their A level exams, including revision notes and questions, help and advice.
- Rose expert Shirley said she caught the gardening bug at the age of 15, when she was supposed to be revising for exams - choosing instead to spend the time tending her parents' garden.
Synonyms go over, reread, run through, study, memorize
nounrəˈvaɪzrəˈvīz Printing A proof including corrections made in an earlier proof. Example sentencesExamples - Amid the chaos sits old-timer Howard, the revise sub-editor, who still remembers the days when journalists knew that Woking wasn't in Kent and that battalion has two Ts.
- These proofs date from the same period of revision exemplified by the large corpus of revises that came in late April and throughout May.
- The present work was set up in slips, but the corrections have been unusually large, and the revises frequent.
Synonyms page proof, galley proof, galley, pull, slip, trial print
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’): from French réviser ‘look at’, or Latin revisere ‘look at again’, from re- ‘again’ + visere (intensive form of videre ‘to see’). |