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Definition: Revisit |
RevisitVerb1. Visit again: "We revisited Rome after 25 years". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "revisit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Presence | Resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Revisit |
| Specialty definitions using "revisit": Democritos ♦ EMPLOYER RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE ♦ Revisit Time ♦ Sampling Period ♦ Village. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I think I shall never revisit those scenes. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Syria | This legacy of state intervention and price, trade, and foreign exchange controls still hampers economic growth, although the government has begun to revisit many of these policies, especially vis--vis the financial sector and the country's trade regime. (references) |
Political Rights | Malaysia | The amendments empowered the Speaker to ban members he considered unruly for up to 10 days, imposed limits on deputies' ability to pose supplementary questions and revisit nongermane issues, and established restrictions on the tabling of questions of public importance. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | Bob, this was vintage John Breaux. He warmly embraced Tom Daschle's speech on Friday, but took issue with the central part of the speech to revisit the tax cuts. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Revisit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Revisit" is used about 56 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 (infinitive) | 75% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.07% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
earlier moment posed question revisit take | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "revisit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vizitoj sërish. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زار مرة أخرى, عاد مرة أخرى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | посещавам отново. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再访. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | revisiter, retourner voir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wieder besuchen (to revisit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επισκέπτομαι πάλι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszajár, újra meglátogat (to revisit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rivisitare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 再遊 , 再訪 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいほう (sewing, western direction), さいゆう (trip to the West, westward trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재방문. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur shilley elley er. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evisitray voltar a visitar, visitar de novo. (various references) снова посетить. (various references) ponovo posetiti. (various references) volver a visitar. (various references) besöka på nytt. (various references) tekrar ziyaret etmek. (various references) відвідати знову. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | resen. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "revisit": revisited, revisiting, revisits. (additional references) | |
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"Revisit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: racisit, Radisich, Ravasio, Ravissant, ravissent, reevesii, Reivich, revisite, revitt, Rovesti, Rzevski. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "revisit" (pronounced rēvi"zut) |
| 5 | -v i" z u t | visit. |
| 3 | -z u t | closet, composite, deposit, exit, exquisite, opposite, perquisite, posit, prerequisite, requisite, transit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: visiter. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-r-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: rivets, stiver, strive, verist. | |
-2 letters: ivies, rites, rives, rivet, siver, tiers, tires, tries, verst, verts, viers, vires, visit. | |
-3 letters: erst, ires, iris, reis, rest, rets, revs, rise, rite, rive, sire, site, stir, tier, ties, tire, vert, vest, vets, vier, vies, vise. | |
-4 letters: ers, ire, its, rei, res, ret, rev, sei, ser, set, sir, sit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: inviters, priviest, revisits, veristic, verities, visiters, vitrines. | |
+2 letters: arriviste, brevities, diversity, erosivity, gravities, intrusive, positiver, privatise, privities, reinvites, resistive, revisited, servility, tirrivees, varieties, varsities, verticils, victories, vitrifies, vizirates. | |
+3 letters: arrivistes, ascriptive, aviatrices, aviatrixes, cervicitis, clavierist, deviltries, directives, disruptive, fricatives, interviews, intrusives, inverities, lentivirus, ovaritides, primitives, privatised, privatises, privatives, privatizes, recidivist, relativism, relativist, restriving, revisiting, revitalise, revivalist, severities, thieveries, transitive, trivialise, university, vanitories, veracities, vertigines, vestiaries, vicariates, viridities, virilities, vivisector, vizierates, vomitories, voracities. | |
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