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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revision
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exam revisionBrE:
▪ I have to do my exam revision this weekend.
examination revision
▪ I need to find somewhere quiet to do some examination revision.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
downward
▪ A possible downward revision However, the scale of the projected growth continued to be questioned.
major
▪ Barr's schema was provisional, and although he did later rework the plan he made no major revisions.
▪ This stimulus lasted until the Finance Act of 1973 which introduced a major revision of the system of corporation tax.
▪ The mechanisms for distributing the Funds were also subject to major revisions and these became effective on 1 January 1989.
▪ It was the first major and comprehensive revision of investor protection legislation since the mid-1930's.
radical
▪ In power, the second part of the programme usually needed radical revision.
▪ This feature is of particular interest if a radical revision is suggested by the evaluation.
▪ Before very long the view of Rhee's helpful conduct was to undergo radical revision.
▪ The traditional ways of supporting the Three Pillars of Britain's grand strategy would need radical revision.
▪ I don't quite know what I did to deserve this radical revision in status.
▪ However, they do not expect any radical revision to emerge in the run-up to legislation.
▪ Yet the concept of self-advocacy and the parallel emergence of normalisation, demand a radical revision of professional roles and approaches.
substantial
▪ A score of seven or less suggests the need for a substantial revision of Goal 3.
▪ The draft represented a substantial revision of the 1980 Constitution.
▪ Although a compromise, it still contained substantial revisions.
▪ In the event of substantial revision being necessary to the manuscripts, we reserve the right to revise this royalty figure.
■ VERB
include
▪ However, I think that this ought to include a revision of the names of all the elementary particles.
▪ All of them helped write the report, including revisions.
lead
▪ Also, new data still often lead to significant revisions.
need
▪ All plans need revision from time to time and difficulties arise in reading the networks after several such changes.
▪ Others need several revisions to their surgeries, and develop painful masses of scar tissue.
▪ The traditional ways of supporting the Three Pillars of Britain's grand strategy would need radical revision.
▪ Did Purcell start with this because it needed revision and transposition before it could be published?
▪ You need an active revision system which allows you to adjust your knowledge to different questions.
▪ Discussions with experts and interested bodies will be needed with possible consequent revision of 1. 3.
▪ When our experiments stop making sense we should go back to these assumptions to see whether they need revision.
propose
▪ Another proposed revision would prohibit gun owners from keeping their weapons at home.
require
▪ It is a decision that may require continual revision.
▪ Other groups of plants require a thorough revision before we can be sure of the proper name for the species.
undergo
▪ The other chapters have undergone a thorough revision, modernising of the content and retaining the clarity of the earlier edition.
▪ Before very long the view of Rhee's helpful conduct was to undergo radical revision.
▪ Since then his doctrines have undergone significant revisions.
▪ Smith says Coleman's opinions were final and never underwent revision.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ How is your history revision going?
▪ I've written the article, but it needs a lot of revision.
▪ I can't come out tonight - I've got a lot of revision to do.
▪ Make sure your revisions are improvements, not just changes.
▪ The book went through several revisions before the publisher was finally satisfied with it.
▪ The city's general development plan is undergoing revision.
▪ These amendments constitute the most significant revision of U.S. asylum law since the Refugee Act of 1980.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A revision to the financing element is expected in the next cou ple of years.
▪ In every pedagogical grammar, there should be a plan for systematic revision of previously taught material.
▪ In order that the scheme remains popular, it is vital that revision is conducted with regard to users' needs.
▪ It is a decision that may require continual revision.
▪ Others need several revisions to their surgeries, and develop painful masses of scar tissue.
▪ Seventeen times, revision after revision, it kept coming back.
▪ The second dimension implies the need for self-conscious implementation of equal opportunities and the questioning and revision of routine practices.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revision

Revision \Re*vi"sion\, n. [F. r['e]vision, L. revisio.]

  1. The act of revising; re["e]xamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

  2. That which is made by revising.

    Syn: Re["e]xamination; revisal; revise; review.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revision

1610s, "act of revising," from French révision, from Late Latin revisionem (nominative revisio) "a seeing again," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin revidere (see revise). Meaning "a product of revision" is from 1845.

Wiktionary
revision

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) The process of revise: 2 # The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending. 3 # (context UK Australia New Zealand English) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination. 4 (context countable English) A changed edition, or new version; a modification. 5 (context countable English) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author. Etymology 2

vb. To provide with a new vision.

WordNet
revision
  1. n. the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion" [syn: alteration]

  2. the act of rewriting something [syn: revisal, revise, rescript]

  3. something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better" [syn: rewrite, rescript]

Wikipedia
Revision

Revision is the process of revising. More specifically, it may refer to:

  • Update, a modification of software or a database
  • Revision control, the management of changes to sets of computer files
  • Belief revision
  • Revision (writing)
  • ReVisions, a 2004 anthology of alternate history short stories
  • Revision3, a San Francisco based Internet television network
  • Revision (Boxcar album) a remix music album by synthpop group Boxcar
  • Revisions (album), an album by the band 3
  • Revision (demoparty), a demoparty which takes place on Easter in Saarbrücken, Germany
  • "Revisions" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the Stargate SG-1 science-fiction television series
  • Final Articles Revision Convention (disambiguation), either of two International Labour Organisation conventions
  • Revision or revising, a British term for exam preparation
  • The general process of revising written work, or a version of the work produced by that process
Revision (writing)

Revision is the stage in the writing process where the author reviews, alters, and amends her or his message, according to what has been written in the draft. Revision follows drafting and precedes editing. Drafting and revising often form a loop as a work moves back and forth between the two stages. It is not uncommon for professional writers to go through many drafts and revisions before successfully creating an essay that is ready for the next stage – editing.

In their seminal book, The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White acknowledge the need for revision in the writing process: “Few writers are so expert that they can produce what they are after on the first try. Quite often you will discover, on examining the completed work, that there are serious flaws in the arrangement of the material, calling for transpositions... do not be afraid to experiment with your text.”

Successful revision involves:

  • Identification of thesis. The purpose of the essay should be re-considered based on what has been written in the draft. If this purpose differs from the original thesis, the author must decide from which thesis to continue writing.
  • Consideration of structure. The author should identify the strengths of the draft, then re-consider the order of those strengths, adjusting their placement as necessary so the work can build with auxesis to a crescendo.
  • Uncovering weakness in argument or presentation. Once the strengths of the draft have been identified and placed in the strongest order, the author can re-examine the work for weaknesses in argument or presentation. Faulty logic, missing transitions, and unsupported or poorly supported assertions are common weaknesses. Identifying these weaknesses during revision will inform the next draft.

Successful revision is not improving grammar or diction. Those will be the focus of later editing.

Category:Writing

Revision (demoparty)

Revision is a demoparty which takes place on Easter in Saarbrücken, Germany. It is the successor of the Breakpoint party series, and retains much of its organizing staff. The event was established in 2011, after Breakpoint had announced its end in 2010.

The party hosts around 800 people from worldwide each year. It is currently the largest pure-demoscene event in the world.

Usage examples of "revision".

The religious traditions are often so rich and multivariate that they offer ample opportunity for renewal and revision, again especially when their sacred books can be interpreted metaphorically and allegorically.

The principle of party spirit prevailed over a sense of justice, for the scrutiny of an election is nothing more than a revision of the poll itself, and if such revision cannot be completed before the period at which the writ is returnable, he is bound by his office and oath to make the return agreeably to the poll as actually taken.

The more Harry pored over the book, the more he realized how much was in there, not only the handy hints and shortcuts on potions that was earning him such a glowing reputation with Slughorn, but also the imaginative little jinxes and hexes scribbled in the margins, which Harry was sure, judging by the crossings-out and revisions, that the Prince had invented himself.

The theoretical side of economics has not been neglected in this general revision and that chapter has been simplified and made more easily comprehensible to those first entering the study of this subject.

He tried his hand on the revision of an old play, and the manager was not slow to recognise an unmatched gift for dramatic writing.

What Einstein proposed was that the velocity-dependencies deduced by Lorentz were not part of some fudge-factor needed for electromagnetism, but that they expressed fundamental properties of the nature of space and time that were true universally, and hence called for a revision of mechanics.

On revision, however, those multipoint speeches will have to be broken down into much smaller components.

They mined the dense jumble of his Paduan notes and prepared neat sheets of paper, written extravagantly on one side only, for his review and revision.

Degrees, Allegories from old religions, mysteries used in revision of, 328-m.

It would likewise be impossible to order the segments of the multitude through processes that force it to be more mobile and flexible in hybrid cultural forms and in multicolored ghettos ifthis administration were not equally flexible and capable of specific and continuous procedural revisions and differentiations.

Feynman expressed this view more than three decades ago, it applies equally well today What he meant is that although the special and general theories of relativity require a drastic revision of previous ways of seeing the world, when one fully accepts the basic principles underlying them, the new and unfamiliar implications for space and time follow directly from careful logical reasoning.

In fact, we shall see that the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics is actually not the first, but the third in a sequence of pivotal conflicts encountered during the past century, each of whose resolution has resulted in a stunning revision of our understanding of the universe.

But instead of picking up another revision to the ISEG training schedule that Coombs had placed there for approval, he leaned back and reflected on his nagging sense that something was wrong.

Level 2, where I signed out the holovid chips for the Naval Regulations and Code of Conduct, Revision of 2087.

Of all the languages Tolkien mentioned in Etym, Quenya is in any case among the tongues that were not very significantly affected by his subsequent revisions.