revising

«revising» in Mova's school dictionary: studying again what you have learned before, to get ready… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (revise, revises, revised, revising)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) Revising means studying again what you have learned before, to get ready for a test or exam. tree →

2) Revising also means changing and improving a piece of writing, a plan or an idea. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used at school: revising for spelling tests and exams (in the USA "reviewing" or "studying"). In writing lessons: plan, draft, revise, edit, publish — revising makes the writing better. Phrase: "revising for".

examples

• I am revising for my maths test. tree →
• She spent the weekend revising her times tables. tree →
• Revise your story to make it more exciting. tree →
• We are revising fractions this week. tree →
• After revising his plan, he started again. tree →
• Revising a little every day works better than cramming. tree →

note

-ing form of "revise" (drop the e). Noun: revision. In the USA "revise" mostly means change writing; "review" means study again.

In the corpora

• Revising a little on several days helps you remember for longer than revising only the night before.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «revising» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.