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Definition: Revising |
RevisingNoun1. Editing that involves writing something again. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "revising" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonym: RevisingSynonym: rewriting (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judge | Jurat, assessor; arbiter, arbitrator; umpire; referee, referendary; revising barrister; domesman; censor; (critic); barmaster, ephor; grand juror, grand juryman; juryman, talesman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Revising |
| English words defined with "revising": alteration ♦ de-Nazification, de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization ♦ Recension, revision, Revisory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "revising": DATA BASE DESIGN ANALYST, DIRECTOR, EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH AND PLANNING ♦ JACKET PREPARER, JOB DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST, job enlargement ♦ Marking Up a Bill ♦ National Forest Management Act of 1976 ♦ PRODUCTION ENGINEER, TRACK ♦ Redistricting, REVISING CLERK ♦ SECURITY OFFICER. (references) |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air for which earth offered no worthy foundation. |
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Business | Mexico is currently revising many of its standards, eliminating some, and upgrading or adding others. (references) | |
It is possible that politicians could suspend (or reverse) the process at any time. Indeed, at the time of writing lawmakers of the National Assembly had determined not to vote on revising the acts required to reform the industry. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bulgaria | The process of revising procedures for licensing private radio stations was ongoing at year's end. (references) |
Economic History | Yemen | It is in the process of revising its IPR laws under WIPO guidance to meet international standards. (references) |
Spain | Spain is revising its patent laws for chemicals, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology to conform with EU standards. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | Debate in the National Assembly on revising the NSL is ongoing. (references) |
Japan | Responding to the final report of a Government advisory panel established in 1999 to outline structural reforms to the judicial system, in June the Government announced plans to begin drafting legislation aimed at reducing the average time required to complete criminal trials and civil trials that include witness examination (which lasted an average of 20.5 months in 1999). Its proposals included hiring substantial numbers of additional court and Justice Ministry personnel, revising bar examinations, establishing new graduate law schools to increase the overall number of legal professionals (judges, lawyers, and prosecutors) three-fold by 2010, and requiring that courts and opposing litigants jointly work to improve trial planning by allowing for earlier evidence collection and disclosure. (references) | |
Political Economy | Vietnam | The Assembly was active in revising legislation, criticizing officials' performance, screening ministerial and other senior candidate appointments, and dismissing senior officers. (references) |
Trade | Israel | The Ministry of Agriculture is revising its phytosanitary restrictions to fit the government's SPS obligations. (references) |
Worker Rights | Canada | The country also has assisted other governments in revising their criminal codes to conform to relevant international conventions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | I wish also, in revising the constitution, we may throw into that section, which interdicts the abuse of certain powers in the state legislatures, some other provisions of equal if not greater importance than those already made. |
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| "Revising" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.73% of the time. "Revising" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.73% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 132 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "revising": self-revising, treaty-revising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
revising | 5 |
correcting efl error in revising | 2 |
conferencing editing revising writing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "revising"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 校正 (Amendment, revised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kriterierne saavel som fremgangsmaaden ved deres revision skal fastsaettes af Raadet med enstemmighed (the criteria and the procedure for revising them shall be determined by the Council acting unanimously), Kommissionen foreslaar en fremgangsmaade til revision af disse kriterier (the Commission shall propose a procedure for revising these criteria), dommen i genoptagelsessagen (revising judgment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | de criteria alsmede de herzieningsprocedure moeten door de Raad met eenparigheid van stemmen worden vastgesteld (the criteria and the procedure for revising them shall be determined by the Council acting unanimously), de Commissie stelt een procedure voor ter herziening dezer criteria (the Commission shall propose a procedure for revising these criteria), arrest houdende herziening (revising judgment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | révisant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | revidierend, überarbeitend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | η Eπιτροπή προτείνει μία διαδικασία αναθεωρήσεως των κριτηρίων αυτών (the Commission shall propose a procedure for revising these criteria), απόφαση επί της αναθεωρήσεως (revising judgment), τα κριτήρια,όπως και η διαδικασία αναθεωρήσεως,ορίζονται ομοφώνως από το Συμβούλιο (the criteria and the procedure for revising them shall be determined by the Council acting unanimously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sentenza di revocazione (revising judgment), la Commissione propone una procedura di revisione di tali criteri (the Commission shall propose a procedure for revising these criteria), i criteri,come pure la procedura di revisione,devono essere determinati all'unanimita'dal Consiglio (the criteria and the procedure for revising them shall be determined by the Council acting unanimously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 補訂 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほてい (pot-bellied god of good fortune, prosthetic, replenishment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수정 (Amending, insemination, modification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evisingray tais créditos,bem como as norma reguladoras do processo da sua revisão,devem ser estabelecidos pelo Conselho,deliberando por unanimidade (the criteria and the procedure for revising them shall be determined by the Council acting unanimously), acórdão que conceda a revisão (revising judgment), a Comissão proporá normas reguladoras do processo de revisão destes critérios (the Commission shall propose a procedure for revising these criteria). (various references) пересматривать пересмотр. (various references) tales criterios, al igual que el procedimiento de revisión, deberán ser determinados por el Consejo por unanimidad (the criteria and the procedure for revising them shall be determined by the Council acting unanimously), sentencia que acuerde la revisión (revising judgment), la Comisión propondrá un procedimiento de revisión de tales criterios (the Commission shall propose a procedure for revising these criteria). (various references) kommissionen skall föreslå ett förfarande för omprövning av dessa kriterier (the Commission shall propose a procedure for revising these criteria), dessa kriterier samt förfarandet för omprövning av dem skall enhälligt fastställas av rådet (the criteria and the procedure for revising them shall be determined by the Council acting unanimously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "revising": prevising. (additional references) | |
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"Revising" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crevicing, pelvising, Ravissant, ravissent, reevesiana, Reisinger, rerising, revison, revoicing, Trevisan, Trevisani, Trevisano. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "revising" (pronounced rivī"zing or rēvī"zing) |
| 6 | -i v ī" z i ng | devising. |
| 5 | -v ī" z i ng | advising. |
| 4 | -ī" z i ng | arising, chastising, comprising, decriminalizing, disguising, rising, sensationalizing, sizing, surprising, unsurprising, uprising. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
| 5 | -v ī" z i ng | advising, devising. |
| 4 | -ī" z i ng | arising, chastising, comprising, decriminalizing, disguising, rising, sensationalizing, sizing, surprising, unsurprising, uprising. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: reiving, serving, sieving, versing, virgins, viseing. | |
-2 letters: givens, givers, reigns, renigs, resign, rising, riving, sering, signer, singer, siring, vinier, virgin, vising. | |
-3 letters: genii, girns, given, giver, gives, grins, iring, ivies, nisei, reign, reins, renig, resin, rings, rinse, risen, riven, rives, segni, sengi, serin, singe, siren, siver, veins, viers, vines, vires. | |
-4 letters: egis, engs, ergs. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: prevising, scrieving, servicing, shivering, shrieving, silvering, slivering. | |
+2 letters: disserving, ingressive, inveighers, inveiglers, restriving, revisiting, shriveling, versifying, vertigines, vinegarish. | |
+3 letters: advertising, beshivering, caregivings, desilvering, discovering, dissevering, enravishing, ingressives, invigorates, misaverring, overfishing, overissuing, pulverising, reinvesting, reservicing, resilvering, shivareeing, shrivelling, supervising, surveilling, timeserving, vainglories, vertiginous, virginities. | |
+4 letters: advertisings, divergencies, diversifying, eviscerating, griseofulvin, investigator, misgoverning, overinsuring, overpraising, overslipping, overstirring, overstriding, overstriking, overswinging, previsioning, redissolving, revitalising, timeservings, variegations, vinaigrettes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 69 73 69 6E 67 |
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