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rev

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ɹɛv/(UK)

Definition of rev

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ergative)To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.
    “He revved the engine in a rather macho style.”
    “You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.”
    “Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.”
    “It is impossible to see inside the mind of a killer. What was he thinking, the young man who sat at the wheel of the white van at the top of Las Ramblas and purposefully revved the engine? What warped ideology, what distorted belief system, what bitter life experience had brought him to this fateful tipping point?”
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verb

  1. (ergative)To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.
    “He revved the engine in a rather macho style.”
    “You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.”
    “Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.”
    “It is impossible to see inside the mind of a killer. What was he thinking, the young man who sat at the wheel of the white van at the top of Las Ramblas and purposefully revved the engine? What warped ideology, what distorted belief system, what bitter life experience had brought him to this fateful tipping point?”

noun

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of revolution (of something spinning).
    “Up came the revs again, slam the door shut, kick the stick off the throttle and up through the gears, down the others side! Whee! Made it again!”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable)Clipping of revenue
    “ad rev”
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of reverend
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of range-extended vehicle or range extender vehicle
  5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of rotary exhaust valve

name

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Rev..
  2. A road network in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for bicycles

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Etymology

Abbreviation of revolutions, rpm

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