different between revision vs revise

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?v?zh'?n, IPA^(key): /ri?v?.?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French révision, from Latin rev?si?.

Noun

revision (countable and uncountable, plural revisions)

1. (uncountable) The process of revising:
   1. The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
      • 2002, James D. Lester, James D. Lester, Jr, Writing Research Papers, page 195,

        Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.

      • 2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix,

        The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .

      • 2010, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner (editors), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume 16, page 37,

        Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.

   2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one?s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
      • 2008, Philip A. Kalra (editor), Essential Revision Notes in Medicine for Students, Volume 1.
2. (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
   • 2004, Robert McConnell Productions, Henry M. Robert, Robert?s Rules of Order: Simplified and Applied, page 331,

     The first thing members need to understand about a revision is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.

   • 1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx,

     However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett?s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence?s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.

   • 2008, World Bank, page 209,

     Previous editions of World Development Indicators used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data.

   • 2012, Bill Fane, David Byrnes, AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies, page 189,

     Include the revision number. You may need to add a triangle and number, shown in Figure 9-6, to indicate the revision number.

3. (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

Synonyms

• (UK, Australia, New Zealand: reviewing something previously learned): review (US)

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From re- +? vision.

Verb

revision (third-person singular simple present revisions, present participle revisioning, simple past and past participle revisioned)

1. To provide with a new vision.

Anagrams

• ivorines, visioner

Finnish

Noun

revision

1. Genitive singular form of revisio.

Anagrams

• inversio

Swedish

Noun

revision c

1. a revision, an audit
2. a revision, a version, a change

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• visioner

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin rev?sere, from re- + v?sere (“examine”), frequentative of vid?re (“see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???va??z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

revise (third-person singular simple present revises, present participle revising, simple past and past participle revised)

1. (obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.
2. To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.

   This statute should be revised.

   • 1951, Maulana Muhammad Ali, Preface to the Revised Edition, The Holy Quran: English Translation and Commentary, 2011, unnumbered page,

     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.

   • 2008, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research, 3rd edition, University of Chicago Press, page 203,

     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.

3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.

   I should be revising for my exam in a few days.

   • 1957, Clifford Thomas Morgan, James Deese, How to Study, McGraw-Hill, page 16,

     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.

   • 2003, Stuart Redman, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 5,

     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.

Synonyms

• (review, edit and amend):
• (look over again): review

Related terms

• revision

Translations

Noun

revise (plural revises)

1. A review or a revision.
2. (printing) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
   • 1837, Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press, page 30,

     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.

   • 1997, David Lodge, The Practice of Writing, 2011, page 219,

     […] until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises, so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.

Translations

See also

• revisable
• revisal
• reviser
• revisory
• revision
• revisionism
• revisionist

Anagrams

• Rieves, Sevier, reives, revies, rieves, siever

Latin

Verb

rev?se

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rev?s?

Portuguese

Verb

revise

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of revisar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of revisar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of revisar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of revisar

Spanish

Verb

revise

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of revisar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of revisar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of revisar.