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# revising

verb form (revise, revises, revised, revising)

«revising» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) Revising means studying again what you have learned before, to get ready for a test or exam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#m1)
2. Revising also means changing and improving a piece of writing, a plan or an idea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#x1)
- She spent the weekend revising her times tables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#x2)
- Revise your story to make it more exciting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#x3)
- We are revising fractions this week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#x4)
- After revising his plan, he started again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#x5)
- Revising a little every day works better than cramming. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «revising» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«revising» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/revising.html) on Mova free.