Revision
noun
The act of improving or altering something previously written or done.
The professor made several revisions to his lecture before presenting it to his students.
Often appears as...
- make a revision
- consider a revision
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General, Academic
noun
The act of reexamining a subject or things already learned, to refresh the memory.
Studying for finals required a lot of revision of the material already covered in class.
Often appears as...
- prepare for revision
- thorough revision
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General, Academic
noun
An updated version or form of something.
This is a revision of our previous software, which has several new features.
Often appears as...
- software revision
- draft revision
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Technical
noun
A change made to a law or legal document.
The law was put into effect after many revisions to ensure its fairness.
Often appears as...
- legal revision
- constitutional revision
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Formal
Technical
noun
The act of improving or altering something previously written or done.
The professor made several revisions to his lecture before presenting it to his students.
Often appears as...
- make a revision
- consider a revision
Usage tips
General, Academic
noun
The act of reexamining a subject or things already learned, to refresh the memory.
Studying for finals required a lot of revision of the material already covered in class.
Often appears as...
- prepare for revision
- thorough revision
Usage tips
General, Academic
noun
An updated version or form of something.
This is a revision of our previous software, which has several new features.
Often appears as...
- software revision
- draft revision
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A change made to a law or legal document.
The law was put into effect after many revisions to ensure its fairness.
Often appears as...
- legal revision
- constitutional revision
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Improvement Focus
Revision often implies improving content by fixing issues or adding new information.
Her essay needed a revision for better clarity and coherence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Editing
Revision is more than proofreading; it may involve restructuring or refining ideas.
He revised his thesis to incorporate the feedback from his advisor.
Pro Tip 3/3Draft Stages
Revision can denote changes in drafts, meaning it’s not the final version yet.
After her third revision, the draft was almost ready.
Pro Tip 1/3Improvement Focus
Revision often implies improving content by fixing issues or adding new information.
Her essay needed a revision for better clarity and coherence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Editing
Revision is more than proofreading; it may involve restructuring or refining ideas.
He revised his thesis to incorporate the feedback from his advisor.
Pro Tip 3/3Draft Stages
Revision can denote changes in drafts, meaning it’s not the final version yet.
After her third revision, the draft was almost ready.
Pro Tip 1/3Improvement Focus
Revision often implies improving content by fixing issues or adding new information.
Her essay needed a revision for better clarity and coherence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Editing
Revision is more than proofreading; it may involve restructuring or refining ideas.
He revised his thesis to incorporate the feedback from his advisor.
Pro Tip 3/3Draft Stages
Revision can denote changes in drafts, meaning it’s not the final version yet.
After her third revision, the draft was almost ready.
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Eduardo Briceño: How to...
to learn from them, or when we look for narrow responses rather than encourage more exploratory thinking that we can all learn from. When all homework or student work has a number or a letter on it, and counts towards a final grade, rather than being used for practice, mistakes, feedback and revision, we send the message that school is a performance zone.
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Faith versus tradition...
different world with different values and different political systems that interpretation is quite possible and feasible now if I were the only person thinking that way but we would be in trouble but that's not the case at all actually from the 19th century on there's a whole revisionist reformist
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Dan Dennett: Responding...
Because I'm absolutely sincere in my appreciation of all that I said about this book. But I wish it were better. I have some problems with the book. And it would just be insincere of me not to address those problems. I wish he could do this with a revision, a Mark 2 version of his book.
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How changing your story...
and which ones need an edit. And that it's worth the effort to go through a revision because there's nothing more important to the quality of our lives than the stories we tell ourselves about them. I say that when it comes to the stories of our lives,
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Let's Talk About Clean...
the source of how we go forward I think that in the show you see human beings whose belief whose dreaming whose imagination converts into innovation part of what is so delightful is the idea of a revisionist view of what the earth
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3 rules to spark...
What we do is important. It deserves our care, but it also deserves our revision. Can we be the surgeons of our classrooms? As if what we are doing one day will save lives. Our students our worth it. And each case is different.
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Protecting the ocean for...
frog the countless revisions led me to the final version labeled by one Fisher as the most beautiful fish ever seen I also work with children the next liners of this earth and a key influencer group during various school
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Innovative and cost...
with revisions a lot of fighting as my other sister was saying who what belongs to who who invented it we should have the biggest share all those problems come in but most important is what I've
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Stefan Wolff: The path...
he imposed very clear conditions for the participation and negotiations. Central among them, a commitment to exclusively peaceful means. Subsequent revisions of the agreement
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Behind the lies of...
One filled with papers -- footnote-laden papers. And they had a new name. Not neo-Nazis, not anti-Semites -- revisionists. They said, "We are revisionists.
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Eduardo Briceño: How to...
to learn from them, or when we look for narrow responses rather than encourage more exploratory thinking that we can all learn from. When all homework or student work has a number or a letter on it, and counts towards a final grade, rather than being used for practice, mistakes, feedback and revision, we send the message that school is a performance zone.
Video examples
Faith versus tradition...
different world with different values and different political systems that interpretation is quite possible and feasible now if I were the only person thinking that way but we would be in trouble but that's not the case at all actually from the 19th century on there's a whole revisionist reformist
Video examples
Dan Dennett: Responding...
Because I'm absolutely sincere in my appreciation of all that I said about this book. But I wish it were better. I have some problems with the book. And it would just be insincere of me not to address those problems. I wish he could do this with a revision, a Mark 2 version of his book.
Video examples
How changing your story...
and which ones need an edit. And that it's worth the effort to go through a revision because there's nothing more important to the quality of our lives than the stories we tell ourselves about them. I say that when it comes to the stories of our lives,
Video examples
Let's Talk About Clean...
the source of how we go forward I think that in the show you see human beings whose belief whose dreaming whose imagination converts into innovation part of what is so delightful is the idea of a revisionist view of what the earth
Video examples
3 rules to spark...
What we do is important. It deserves our care, but it also deserves our revision. Can we be the surgeons of our classrooms? As if what we are doing one day will save lives. Our students our worth it. And each case is different.
Video examples
Protecting the ocean for...
frog the countless revisions led me to the final version labeled by one Fisher as the most beautiful fish ever seen I also work with children the next liners of this earth and a key influencer group during various school
Video examples
Innovative and cost...
with revisions a lot of fighting as my other sister was saying who what belongs to who who invented it we should have the biggest share all those problems come in but most important is what I've
Video examples
Stefan Wolff: The path...
he imposed very clear conditions for the participation and negotiations. Central among them, a commitment to exclusively peaceful means. Subsequent revisions of the agreement
Video examples
Behind the lies of...
One filled with papers -- footnote-laden papers. And they had a new name. Not neo-Nazis, not anti-Semites -- revisionists. They said, "We are revisionists.
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Seth Grahame-Smith
American Author
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Over the years, EpiPen's manufacturer, Mylan, made meaningful modifications to its auto-injector pen. The company maintains some important intellectual property around these revisions. Mylan rightly argues that these features differentiate its device.
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Ravi Zacharias
American Author
Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
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T. E. Lawrence
British Soldier
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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John Jeremiah Sullivan
American Writer
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexican Director
When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.
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Trudie Styler
English Actress
I had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I've had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is.
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Hans Frank
German Public Servant
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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Tess Daly
English Model
I try to prep a lot of things in advance and be organized, whether that's meals, school runs, homework plans, plenty of GCSE revision.
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John Irving
American Novelist
Half my life is an act of revision.
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Seth Grahame-Smith
American Author
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Over the years, EpiPen's manufacturer, Mylan, made meaningful modifications to its auto-injector pen. The company maintains some important intellectual property around these revisions. Mylan rightly argues that these features differentiate its device.
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Ravi Zacharias
American Author
Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
Quote examples
T. E. Lawrence
British Soldier
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
Quote examples
John Jeremiah Sullivan
American Writer
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
Quote examples
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexican Director
When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.
Quote examples
Trudie Styler
English Actress
I had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I've had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is.
Quote examples
Hans Frank
German Public Servant
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
Quote examples
Tess Daly
English Model
I try to prep a lot of things in advance and be organized, whether that's meals, school runs, homework plans, plenty of GCSE revision.
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John Irving
American Novelist
Half my life is an act of revision.
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