Definition of Revise

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Revise

To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.

To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.

A review; a revision.

A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

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Revise Quotations

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
John Irving

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.
Rita Dove

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
Richard Perle

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
Philip Levine

Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
Benjamin Cohen

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
James Schuyler

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
John J. Sirica

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer

Revise Translations

revise in Afrikaans is nasien
revise in Danish is revidere
revise in Dutch is nakijken, herzien, inspecteren
revise in Swedish is omarbeta, revidera

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