Revision vs Practise - What's the difference?
revision | practise |
(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.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
(intransitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat an activity in this way.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
(intransitive, obsolete, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To conspire.
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To make use of; to employ.
* Massinger
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
* Landor
As a noun revision
is revision, change.As a verb practise is
(transitive|british|canada|australia|new zealand|ireland) to repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.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.
Anagrams
* ----practise
English
Alternative forms
* practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)Verb
(practis)- You should practise playing piano every day.
- If you want to speak French well, you need to practise .
- They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
- She practised law for forty years before retiring.
- Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.''
- As this advice ye practise or neglect.
- In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
- In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.