| revision | | |
| n. (act) | 1. alteration, revision | the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification).; "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion" |
| ~ distraction, misdirection | the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something.; "conjurers are experts at misdirection" |
| ~ modulation | the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect). |
| ~ qualification | the act of modifying or changing the strength of some idea.; "his new position involves a qualification of his party's platform" |
| ~ reorganization | an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government.; "after the takeover there was a thorough reorganization"; "the reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws" |
| ~ translation, transformation | the act of changing in form or shape or appearance.; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface" |
| ~ metamorphosis, transfiguration | a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances.; "the metamorphosis of the old house into something new and exciting" |
| n. (communication) | 2. rescript, revisal, revise, revision | the act of rewriting something. |
| ~ revising, rewriting | editing that involves writing something again. |
| n. (communication) | 3. rescript, revision, rewrite | something that has been written again.; "the rewrite was much better" |
| ~ piece of writing, written material, writing | the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect).; "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" |
| recent | | |
| n. (time) | 1. holocene, holocene epoch, recent, recent epoch | approximately the last 10,000 years. |
| ~ age of man, quaternary, quaternary period | last 2 million years. |
| ~ epoch | a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages. |
| adj. | 2. recent | new.; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" |
| ~ new | not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" |
| adj. | 3. late, recent | of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| lately | | |
| adv. | 1. late, lately, latterly, of late, recently | in the recent past.; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also" |
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