• Revise

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ɹɪˈvaɪ̯z/
    • Rhymes: -aɪz

    Origin

    From Old French & French réviser or directly from Latin revīsere, from re- + vīsere ("examine"), frequentative of vidēre ("see").

    Full definition of revise

    Verb

    1. (obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.
    2. To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.This statute should be revised.
    3. (UK, 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.

    Synonyms

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

    Related terms

    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 (author), 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.

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