revision

UK /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/ US /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/
noun 4verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

The process of revising:

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, […] .

2

The process of revising:

All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!

3

A changed edition, or new version; a modification.

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.

4

A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

A revision story

verb

1

To provide with a new vision.

What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.

Earlier plays of the Broadway comedy genre focused on assimilation […] By re-imagining and re-visioning classic Broadway comedy as a parable of gay growth, Allen has illuminted ^([sic]) the original style and given us something new that is both fresh and funny.

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