reviser
- noun
- /rɪˈvaɪzər/
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revisor
- Bumstead examines the history, the mythology, and the historical revisionism and pronounces a need to revise the revisers.
- revisers check
Examples
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The revisers have drawn attention in footnotes to variant readings that may result in significant alternative understanding or interpretation of the text, and in particular to those readings that were followed in The New English Bible, but which now seem to the revisers to be less probable than those used in this revision.
Academic text (2007) -
As Weinfeld points out, the biblical authors were what we would call collectors, compilers, revisers, editors, and interpreters of ancient tradition.
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I mean, I've been until recently very much not a reviser because everything came in the first draft.
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He remained an obsessive reviser throughout his life.
Academic text (1992) -
The expectations of the teachers played a powerful role in shaping how the students viewed themselves as revisers.
Academic text (2014) -
Shermer and Grobman (2000) accurately renamed these individuals deniers of historical facts, not revisers.
Academic text (2006) -
The revisers have drawn attention in footnotes to variant readings that may result in significant alternative understanding or interpretation of the text, and in particular to those readings that were followed in The New English Bible, but which now seem to the revisers to be less probable than those used in this revision.
Academic text (2007) -
Many of the authors, translators, or revisers are women, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charlotte Yonge to Beatrix Potter.
Academic text (1994) -
The name of this article has been supplied by the reviser.
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He remained an obsessive reviser throughout his life.
Synonyms
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3.0
A person who chooses and corrects the final text in a newspaper, magazine, or book
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3.4
A person who checks and corrects grammar, spelling, and style in written text before it is published
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3.8
A person who reads text to find and fix spelling and grammar errors
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A person who shares the job of making a book, magazine, or newspaper ready to publish
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4.0
A person who edits text to make it clear and ready to be published
A person who checks and corrects writing before it is published
A person who checks and corrects articles before they are published
A person who edits and prepares text for publication, shaping its form
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reviser comes from the verb revise, which is made from re- 'again' and a part that means 'to see', the same idea in vision. A reviser is someone who 'sees again' a text to find and fix mistakes, so they edit and correct documents.