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revise | supercede |

As verbs the difference between revise and supercede

is that revise is while supercede is .

revise

English

Verb

(revis)
  • (obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.
  • To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
    • This statute should be revised .
  • * 1951', , ''Preface to the '''Revised Edition'', ''The Holy Quran: English Translation and Commentary , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • There has been a demand for a revised edition of my English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur?an since the end of the Second World War.
  • * 1983', Willard Scott Thompson, ''Chapter 1: The Third World Revisited'', Willard Scott Thompson (editor), ''The Third World: Premises of U.S. Policy'', ' Revised edition, page 15,
    • The chapter that deals specifically with singular examples is Daniel Pipes? revised study of the Third World peoples of Soviet Central Asia.
  • * 2008 , Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research , 3rd edition, University of Chicago Press, page 203,
    • The best writers know better. They write a first draft not to show readers, but to discover what case they can make for their point and whether it stands up to their own scrutiny. Then they revise' and ' revise until they think their readers will think so too.
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
    • I should be revising for my exam in a few days.
  • * 1957 , Clifford Thomas Morgan, James Deese, How to Study , McGraw-Hill, page 16,
    • In revising your notes, you can also reorganize them so that they are more legible, better arranged, and in a more useful condition for subsequent reviews.
  • * 2003 , Stuart Redman, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate , 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 5,
    • 4 Is it necessary to revise vocabulary (= study it again for a second or third time)?
    5 Is it better to revise' vocabulary occasionally for long periods of time, or is it better to ' revise regularly for short periods of time?
  • * 2008', Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, ''Chapter 19: How to build your memory and '''revise effectively'', ''Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University , SAGE Publications, UK, page 273.

    • Synonyms

    * * (look over again) review

    Related terms

    * revision

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A review or a revision.
  • (printing) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
  • * 1837 , Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press , page 30,
    • The question is, not whether the revises of the Catalogue, which I was obliged to circulate prematurely, were faultless, but whether the alterations which I was desired to make would not render them worse.
  • * 1869 August 16, , letter to W. H. Bradbury, 1983, N. John Hall (editor), The Letters of Anthony Trollope , Volume 1: 1835-1870, page 479,
    • Looking back at the revises of Bullhampton it seems to me that the printers have fallen into some error as to the numbering of Chapters XXXIV—XXXV—XXXVI—which should have been XXXV—XXXVI— and XXXVII.
  • * 1917 , United States Congress: House Committee on Rules, Alleged Divulgence of President?s note to Belligerent Powers , page 1440,
    • I still held the revises ; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.
  • * 1997 , , The Practice of Writing , 2011, page 219,
    • until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises , so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.

    See also

    * revisable * revisal * reviser * revisory * revision * revisionism * revisionist

    Anagrams

    * ----

    supercede

    English

    Verb

  • * 1491 , Acta Dom. Conc. :
    • He sall supercede þe payment of þe said vc frankis.
  • * 1857 , The American Law Register — On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances , Vol. 6, ? 2/3:
    • To it a new species of conveyancing owes its origin, which dispenses with livery of seisin, and almost entirely supercedes , in practice, the employment of common law deeds.
  • * 2000 , Juliet Floyd & Hilary Putnam, The Journal of Philosophy — A Note on Wittgenstein’s “Notorious Paragraph” about the Godel Theorem , Vol. 97, ? 11:
    • They saw themselves as providing a freestanding “ideal language” or “concept-language,” what W. V. Quine has called a first-grade conceptual scheme, which in some sense supercedes ordinary language.
  • * 2002 , Amy Kapczynski, The Yale Law Journal — Queer Brinksmanship: Citizenship and the Solomon Wars , Vol. 112, ? 3:
    • The DoD may contend that the consolidated Solomon Amendment, passed in 1999, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 § 549, supercedes the regulations.

    Usage notes

    * The form (term) is commonly considered a misspelling of supersede, since it results from confusion between Latin , but the ‘c’ spelling began to be used in Middle French, appeared in [[w:English language, English] as early as the 1400s, and is still sometimes found. The fact that supersede is the only English word ending in (term), while several end in (term), also encourages confusion. * Most dictionaries do not include this spelling; a few list it as a variant, sometimes identified as a misspelling.“ supercede]” in the Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary . A search of general dictionaries at [http://www.onelook.com/ Onelook All Dictionaries finds 4 instances of "supercede" excluding this one (with one flagged as misspelling), and 24 of "supersede".

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