All 21 Uses
revise
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
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- Dear Mr Potter, Further to our letter of approximately twenty-two minutes ago, the Ministry of Magic has revised its decision to destroy your wand forthwith.†
Chpt 2 *revised = changed
- They then spent over an hour revising Summoning Charms, which according to Professor Flitwick were bound to come up in their OWL, and he rounded off the lesson by setting them their largest ever amount of Charms homework.†
Chpt 13revising = changing
- Hermione kept asking him what was wrong whenever he fell silent trying to rid himself of all thought and emotion and, after all, the best moment to empty his brain was not while teachers were firing revision questions at the class.†
Chpt 28revision = a change; or a changed version
- It was the first day of the Easter holidays and Hermione, as was her custom, had spent a large part of the day drawing up revision timetables for the three of them.†
Chpt 29
- 'Yeah, well, I don't blame you!' said Ron angrily, setting down his revision timetable.†
Chpt 29
- The weather grew breezier, brighter and warmer as the Easter holidays passed, but Harry, along with the rest of the fifth— and seventh-years, was trapped inside, revising, traipsing back and forth to the library.†
Chpt 29revising = changing
- It was late on Sunday evening: Hermione had gone back to Gryffindor Tower to revise Ancient Runes, and Ron had Quidditch practice.†
Chpt 29revise = change
- And of course, we'd have messed up people's revision, too, which would be the very last thing we'd want to do.'†
Chpt 29revision = a change; or a changed version
- The problem was that with just under a month to go until the exams and every free moment devoted to revision, his mind seemed so saturated with information when he went to bed he found it very difficult to get to sleep at all; and when he did, his overwrought brain presented him most nights with stupid dreams about the exams.†
Chpt 30
- As it was another fine, warm day, they persuaded him to join them in revising under the beech tree at the edge of the lake, where they had less chance of being overheard than in the common room.†
Chpt 31revising = changing
- Their teachers were no longer setting them homework; lessons were devoted to revising those topics the teachers thought most likely to come up in the exams.†
Chpt 31
- Ernie Macmillan had developed an irritating habit of interrogating people about their revision practices.†
Chpt 31revision = a change; or a changed version
- Their teachers were no longer setting them homework; lessons were devoted to revising those topics the teachers thought most likely to come up in the exams.†
Chpt 31revising = changing
- Ernie Macmillan had developed an irritating habit of interrogating people about their revision practices.†
Chpt 31revision = a change; or a changed version
- Everyone was trying to do some lastminute revising but nobody seemed to be getting very far.†
Chpt 31revising = changing
- There was no time to relax that night; they went straight to the common room after dinner and submerged themselves in revision for Transfiguration next day; Harry went to bed with his head buzzing with complex spell models and theories.†
Chpt 31revision = a change; or a changed version
- On Friday, Harry and Ron had a day off while Hermione sat her Ancient Runes exam, and as they had the whole weekend in front of them they permitted themselves a break from revision.†
Chpt 31
- Hermione's bad mood persisted for most of the weekend, though Harry and Ron found it quite easy to ignore as they spent most of Saturday and Sunday revising for Potions on Monday, the exam which Harry had been looking forward to least — and which he was sure would be the downfall of his ambitions to become an Auror.†
Chpt 31revising = changing
- Harry would very much have liked to go back to bed after breakfast, but he had been counting on the morning for a spot of last-minute revision, so instead he sat with his head in his hands by the common-room window, trying hard not to doze off as he read through some of the three-and-a-half-feet-high stack of notes that Hermione had lent him.†
Chpt 31revision = a change; or a changed version
- He just wanted this to be over, so that he could go and sleep; then tomorrow, he and Ron were going to go down to the Quidditch pitch — he was going to have a fly on Ron's broom — and savour their freedom from revision.†
Chpt 31
- Everybody was clearly out in the sunny grounds, enjoying the end of their exams and the prospect of a last few days of term unhampered by revision or homework.†
Chpt 38
Definitions:
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(1)
(revise) to change (and hopefully improve) -- most frequently to improve a written document, but it can be any intentional change such as a change in an estimated amount, a plan, or a series of procedures
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the UK, revise can also mean to review material previously studied to prepare for a test.