rev

See also: Rev, REV, rév, rèv, řev, rev., and Rev.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛv

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of revolutions, rpm

Verb

rev (third-person singular simple present revs, present participle revving, simple past and past participle revved)

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.

   • 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:

     Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.

   • 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     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?

Derived terms

• overrev
• rev up
• revvable
• revver

Translations

to increase the speed of a motor

• Bulgarian: форсирам (bg) (forsiram), давам газ (davam gaz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: gasse op c
• Dutch: optrekken (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: revittää (fi), lisätä kierroksia
• French: faire monter le régime de, faire tourner à plein régime
• German: aufheulen lassen, hochdrehen (de), auf Touren bringen
• Hungarian: gyorsít (hu), gázt ad (slang), gázfröccsöt ad (slang), kakaót ad (slang), megnyomja (slang), nekinyomja (slang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ruse (no)

• Portuguese: acelerar (pt)
• Russian: газовать (ru) (gazovatʹ)
• Spanish: acelerar (es)
• Swedish: varva (sv)

Etymology 2

Noun

rev (plural revs)

1. Clipping of revolution (of something spinning).
   • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 175:

     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!

Derived terms

• panic rev
• rev counter
• revhead
• revvy

Etymology 3

Noun

rev (uncountable)

1. Clipping of revenue

   ad rev

Etymology 4

Noun

rev (plural revs)

1. Clipping of reverend

See also

other terms containing the word "rev", not derived from previous entries

• nonrev
• rev st st

Anagrams

• ERV, VRE, ev'r, ver, ver.

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Old Cornish ruif, from Proto-Brythonic *rruɨβ̃, from Latin rēmus. Cognate with Breton roeñv and Welsh rhwyf. Doublet of reuv (“shovel”).

Noun

rev f (plural revow)

1. oar

Derived terms

• rev dhewbennek (“paddle”)
• revya (“paddle, row”, verb)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rev

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of revya
2. second-person singular imperative of revya

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rif, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib”), cognate with English rib, German Rippe, Dutch rib (English reef, German Riff, Dutch rif come from Old Norse). Doublet of ribbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rev/, [ˈʁæw]

Noun

rev n (singular definite revet, plural indefinite rev)

1. reef (ridge of rock or coral in the sea)
2. (obsolete) rib (one of the long curved bones in the chest)

   Synonym: ribben

3. (obsolete) rib (piece of meat cut from the back of the ox)

   Synonym: højreb

Declension

Declension of rev

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rev	revet	rev	revene
genitive	revs	revets	revs	revenes

Derived terms

• koralrev
• stenrev

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːˀv/, [ˈʁæˀw], [ˈʁæwˀ]
• Homophone: ræv

Verb

rev

1. past participle common of rive

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛv/
• Rhymes: -ɛv

Noun

rev f

1. run
2. escape

Derived terms

• revandin
• revandî
• reviyayî
• revok
• revokî
• revî
• revîn
• revîner
• revînok

Norwegian Bokmål

rev (1)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Norse *rebaʀ.

Noun

rev m (definite singular reven, indefinite plural rever, definite plural revene)

1. a fox (also used figuratively)
2. (slang) marijuana

Derived terms

• revebjelle
• rødrev

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rif.

Noun

rev n (definite singular revet, indefinite plural rev, definite plural reva or revene)

1. a reef (ridge of rock or coral in the sea)
2. a reef (nautical) (in a sail)

Derived terms

• barriererev
• korallrev

Related terms

• reve (verb)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• reiv (of rive)

Verb

rev

1. imperative of reve
2. simple past of rive

References

• “rev” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (fox): ræv, røv (Trøndelag)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Norse *rebaʀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛːv/
• Hyphenation: rèv

Noun

rev m (definite singular reven, indefinite plural revar, definite plural revane)

1. a fox (also used figuratively)
   • 1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog:

     Dan fatige fangar Reven; dan rike fær Skinnet.

     The poor man catches the fox; the rich man gets its hide.

2. (slang) a marijuana joint

   å fyre opp ein rev

   to light a joint

Derived terms

• fjellrev
• raudrev
• revebjølle

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːv/
• Hyphenation: rév

Noun

rev n (definite singular revet, indefinite plural rev, definite plural reva)

1. a reef (ridge of rock or coral in the sea)
2. a reef (nautical) (in a sail)

Derived terms

• barriererev
• korallrev

References

• “rev” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Slovak

Etymology

Deverbal from revať (“to roar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rev/, [ˈreu̯]
• Rhymes: -ev

Noun

rev m inan

1. roar

Declension

Declension of rev
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	rev	revy
genitive	revu	revov
dative	revu	revom
accusative	rev	revy
locative	reve	revoch
instrumental	revom	revmi

Further reading

• “rev”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːv/
• Rhymes: -eːv

Etymology 1

From Old Norse reifa, from Proto-Germanic *raibōną. Compare Old English ārāfian (“uncoil; wind off”), Faroese reiva (“swaddle”).

Noun

rev c

1. a fishing line

Declension

Declension of rev

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rev	revs
	definite	reven	revens
plural	indefinite	revar	revars
	definite	revarna	revarnas

Derived terms

• metrev

References

• “rev”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rif. Compare Danish rev, Middle Low German rif, German Riff.

Noun

rev n

1. a reef; rocks close to the water surface.
2. a rib; a cross-running bone in your upper thorax

Declension

Declension of rev

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rev	revs
	definite	revet	revets
plural	indefinite	rev	revs
	definite	reven	revens

Derived terms

• korallrev

References

• “rev”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rev

1. past indicative of riva

References

• “rev”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “rev”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “rev”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• rev in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)