Maintenance vs Revision - What's the difference?
maintenance | revision |
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
(legal) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
(legal) (UK English) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
(uncountable) The process of revising:
# The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
#* 2002 , James D. Lester, James D. Lester, Jr, Writing Research Papers ,
#* 2004 , Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text'', Joseph Conrad, ''Victory: An Island Tale ,
#* 2010 , , Franz Guenthner (editors), Handbook of Philosophical Logic , Volume 16,
# (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one?s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
#* 2008', Philip A. Kalra (editor), ''
(countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
* 2004 , Robert McConnell Productions, Henry M. Robert, Robert?s Rules of Order: Simplified and Applied ,
* 1992 , Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction'', ''The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers , Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press,
* 2008''', World Bank, ' ,
* 2012 , Bill Fane, David Byrnes, AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies ,
(countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
To provide with a new vision.
As nouns the difference between maintenance and revision
is that maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service while revision is the process of revising.As a verb revision is
to provide with a new vision.maintenance
English
(wikipedia maintenance)Alternative forms
* maintenaunceNoun
(en noun)See also
* high-maintenance * low-maintenance * maintenance-free * maintenance windowExternal links
* * * ----revision
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) revisio.Noun
page 195,
- Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.
page xxxix,
- The full history of its composition, revision , transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note,.
page 37,
- Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.
- All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!
Essential '''RevisionNotes in Medicine for Students , Volume 1.
page 331,
- The first thing members need to understand about a revision' is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the ' revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.
page lxxx,
- However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett?s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence?s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.
page 209,
- Previous editions of World Development Indicators'' used revision''' 2, first published in 1948. '''Revision''' 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But ' revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data.
page 189,
- Include the revision number'. You may need to add a triangle and number, shown in Figure 9-6, to indicate the ' revision number.
- A revision story
Synonyms
* review (US)Etymology 2
(prefix)Verb
(en verb)- What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.
