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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Revising a little on several days helps you remember for longer than revising only the night before.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revising» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revising/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.