revise
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (2)revised, revising
- make revisions in“revise a thesis”More general rewriteMore specific amend
- revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving“We must retool the town's economy”Synonyms: retoolMore general reorganize, reorganise
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Translations
Verb to review and amend
- Spanish
- revisar
- French
- revoir
- German
- revidieren
- Italian
- rivedere
- Portuguese
- revisar
- Russian
- пересма́тривать peresmátrivatʹ
- Chinese
- 修改 xiūgǎi
- Dutch
- herzien
- Swedish
- revidera
- Greek
- αναθεωρώ anatheoró
Verb to look over again
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. reviser, fr. L. revidere, revisum, to see again; pref. re- re- + videre, visum, to see. See Review, View.
1. To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.
2. Printing To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.
3. To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.
The Revised Version of the Bible, a version prepared in accordance with a resolution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.
1. A review; a revision. Robert Boyle
2. Printing A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54