English noun: revision |
1. | revision (act) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) |
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| Samples | It would require a drastic revision of his opinion.
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| Synonyms | alteration |
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| Broader (hypernym) | transformation, translation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | distraction, metamorphosis, misdirection, modulation, qualification, reorganization, transfiguration |
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2. | revision (communication) the act of rewriting something |
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| Synonyms | rescript, revisal, revise |
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| Broader (hypernym) | revising, rewriting |
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3. | revision (communication) something that has been written again |
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| Samples | The rewrite was much better.
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| Synonyms | rescript, rewrite |
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| Broader (hypernym) | piece of writing, writing, written material |
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