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Meaning of revise in English:

revise

Pronunciation /rɪˈvʌɪz/

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verb

  • 1Examine and make corrections or alterations to (written or printed matter)

    ‘the book was published in 1960 and revised in 1968’
    • ‘There is an English instructional book based on the books written by Doshu and there are revised editions of it as well.’
    • ‘Since then, Before the Mayflower has been published in seven editions that have been revised and updated.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘We hope to have an improved and revised one in major bookstores within a year.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘Deb wrote that this book has been revised and updated; for the record, I read the original 1985 edition.’
    • ‘This is the second edition of an outstanding book; it has been revised and updated thoroughly.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘This Fifth Edition of Endurance and Endeavour has been substantially revised to take advantage of the new material.’
    • ‘I will try and write as I revise, but don't expect quick updates, because I really want to concentrate on my studies.’
    • ‘I had started revising a novel I had begun writing in 1996, which I had never got right.’
    • ‘Compared with the originally submitted Statement the fully revised Statement includes additional information on various matters.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘A two hour lecture takes a week to prepare, revise, proofread, and create handouts for.’
    • ‘On the other hand, I've had past clients call asking to either revise or reprint old projects.’
    • ‘When you write for an audience, you get your thoughts down on paper, seek feedback and revise extensively.’
    • ‘Middletown's finance director said revised forms were sent out immediately at a cost of $5,500.’
    1. 1.1Reconsider 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’
      • ‘By 1998, as the budget began to blowout, the figure was revised upwards to 23 percent.’
      • ‘You may shudder to learn that the government has revised its hurricane forecast for the season that began June 1 for the worst.’
      • ‘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.’
      • ‘Shocked economists and policymakers are scrambling to revise their growth forecasts downward.’
      • ‘How would the uses of the prints in a devotional context revise Gauguin's notion of the function of his own sacred art?’
      • ‘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.’
      • ‘The proposed plans would allow employers to reduce overtime payments, revise pension plans and impose more flexible work hours.’
      • ‘Charity looked at her in genuine alarm and was rewarded with a wink that made her revise her opinion of her cousin slightly upwards.’
      • ‘Congress will likely revise it to include only students who are convicted while they are in school.’
      • ‘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.’
      • ‘In recent years, inheritance law has been revised to allow women to inherit more easily.’
      • ‘So much so, the timetable has been revised to allow for an extra trip each day.’
      • ‘Appointment systems for health services may need to be revised to allow time for shared decision making.’
      • ‘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.’
      • ‘MS services in Orkney are being completely revised in an attempt to bring patient care up to a national standard.’
      • ‘The Constitution has been amended, laws have been revised.’
      • ‘But later, the route may be revised as the investors also want to serve the city center.’
      • ‘The Municipal Law of the City was revised in 1884 to regulate drains.’
      • ‘Also, there is a need to revise the Food Guide Pyramid to reflect the Dietary Guidelines.’
      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
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  • 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’
    • ‘revise your lecture notes on the topic’
    • ‘There are tutorials and classes going on, and students revising for exams yet to come, in the Merton Street area.’
    • ‘It was a favourite place for students to revise for examinations.’
    • ‘46 is the number of weeks 11 to 18 year old students spend revising for and doing exams.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘She's concentrating on her weakest subject to revise, which is English Lit.’
    • ‘I then know that i am going into the exam fully prepared and also it is easier to revise from concise notes.’
    • ‘This site offers many resources for students revising for their A level exams, including revision notes and questions, help and advice.’
    • ‘Xola used to drag me to a secluded spot, with a biology book in his hands, to revise and prepare for the exams.’
    • ‘I had eight exams to revise for over Christmas and no study leave.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘Relax on Friday night, revise Saturday and Sunday, then try to remain calm on Monday before the exam.’
    • ‘And she says they often sit around the dining table together to complete homework or revise.’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘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.’
    go over, reread, run through, study, memorize
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noun

Printing

  • A proof including corrections made in an earlier proof.

    ‘I handed in the revises this morning’
    • ‘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.’
    • ‘The present work was set up in slips, but the corrections have been unusually large, and the revises frequent.’
    • ‘These proofs date from the same period of revision exemplified by the large corpus of revises that came in late April and throughout May.’
    page proof, galley proof, galley, pull, slip, trial print
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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’).