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Meaning of revise | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ɹɪˈvaɪz

Definitions

  1. A review or a revision.
  2. A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
  3. To prepare a new version of:amend, emend, emendate, revamp, rework, rewrite.
  4. hersiening مُراجَعَه проверка revisão revize die Revision revision; repetition; korrigering διόρθωση, επανάληψη, αναθεώρησηrevisión kontrollimine بازبینی؛ ویراستاری مجدد tarkistus révisionשינוי पुनर्वलोकन revizija, preispitivanje átnézés; átdolgozott kiadás; átismétlés revisi endurskoðun; upprifjun revisione 改訂 개정, 수정 pakeitimas, pataisymas, kartojimas pārskats; pārstrādāšana ulang kaji het repeteren, herzieningrevidering, repetisjonslesing przejrzenie بيا كتنه، سمونه revisão recapitulare исп...
  5. revisar, repasar, mirar con detenimiento.
  6. To alter or edit (a text).
  7. To reconsider and change or modify: I have revised my opinion of him. See Synonyms at correct.
  8. Chiefly British To study again (academic material, for example), as for a test; review.
  9. To make revisions, as in a text.
  10. Chiefly British To study something again; review.
  11. Informal An act or product of revising; a revision.
  12. Printing A proof made from an earlier proof on which corrections have been made.

Equivalents

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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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