What's the difference between revision and rewrite?

Revision


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.
  • (n.) That which is made by revising.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
  • (2) Potential revisions of the scale, as well as cautions for its use in clinical applications on its present form are discussed.
  • (3) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
  • (4) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
  • (5) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
  • (6) The data were grouped to determine differences between the experimental and the newly revised formats of the GRE-A measure, in addition to any differences among programs.
  • (7) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
  • (8) The Met Office has had to revise its forecast on previous occasions.
  • (9) The revised diagnosis was pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma for one case and pleomorphic leiomyosarcoma for the other cases.
  • (10) As a contribution to the proposed revision of the DSM-III-R category "Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition" for DSM-IV, this article reviews the history of how the relationship of psychiatric illness to neurological illness has been understood with respect to depression.
  • (11) Fixation is more difficult to achieve after revision for infection because of the inferior quality of the bone.
  • (12) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
  • (13) The decision came after Japan’s revised rules on the transfer of arms and defence technology, Suga said.
  • (14) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
  • (15) The United States is in the process of adopting the revised recommendations of the ICRP.
  • (16) Functional gain was measured by the Revised Level of Rehabilitation Scale (LORS-II).
  • (17) Percutaneous balloon catheter dilation appears to be an effective method of treating stenosis in autogenous vein grafts and a useful alternative to surgical revision.
  • (18) The unreliable items were then deleted, and the revised scales were assessed in Study 2.
  • (19) These will be put forward for another round of consultation when the government publishes its revised national energy policy statements.
  • (20) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.

Rewrite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To write again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The French data protection commissioner, the CNIL, led the inquiry and said that Google in effect let users pick and choose how their data was used among different services such as Gmail, Youtube and Google+ – a dramatic rewrite of the single privacy policy Google introduced in March.
  • (2) So, unless he is planning to rewrite the spending review, Osborne can have little of significance to say on spending.
  • (3) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
  • (4) It's fascinating, but above all it proves to be indispensable when it comes to judging how a vote will go, or in rewriting an amendment as a compromise.
  • (5) Because I work in the community and am based at a different NHS trust I then have to duplicate the assessment information to rewrite it on my own trust’s electronic system.
  • (6) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
  • (7) They will certainly dissect every word of your upcoming book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success.
  • (8) Barack Obama is expected to address the threat posed by North Korea in hisstate of the union speech on Tuesday evening after news of Pyongyang's third underground nuclear test triggered some last-minute rewriting of the text.
  • (9) Hollande sparked concern in Britain with the launch his 60-point manifesto last week, when he said he was prepared to tear up and rewrite the EU fiscal treaty to impose more financial rigour on member states.
  • (10) As the storm rages, the keepers of the euro flame have lined up to offer radical ways to rewrite the single currency's rules to make the project more viable in the long term.
  • (11) There was a microcosm of that in the late rewrite of the section of the speech on debt.
  • (12) World War Z was beset with problems during its production, involving rewrites and the whole 40-minute third act being reshot , but the struggle proved worth it as the film made $540m worldwide earlier this year.
  • (13) "The genius is never in the writing, it's in the rewriting," says Rodgers.
  • (14) Where now is a Maynard Keynes to rewrite The Economic Consequences of the Peace ?
  • (15) When I rewrite my book I will be more generous because I believe that for at least a good portion of the second term she was probably covering for her husband and trying to help him.
  • (16) One of the big flashpoints at the Liberal NSW state council meeting was a push by the Warringah conference to rewrite the party’s constitution to reflect John Howard’s proposal to introduce plebiscites involving all local members to decide on preselections in all state and federal seats.
  • (17) His speech to the King's Fund last week made plain his game: having decided that the Labour's 2004 GP contract is the source of problems ranging from poor care of older people to A&E pressures, he is going to rewrite it by next April, sweeping away bureaucracy and securing a "dramatic simplification" of targets and incentives.
  • (18) Writing in the Observer under the headline "Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry" , Hunt seethes, "the government is using what should be a moment for national reflection and respectful debate to rewrite the historical record and sow political division."
  • (19) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
  • (20) Respect [for] the electoral calendar as fixed by the constitution is central to the debate.” Many African presidents have tried to stay in power by rewriting their countries’ constitutions to lose the limits on presidential terms.