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UK
/ɹˈɛv/
]
[ US /ˈɹɛv/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛv/ ]
NOUN
-
rate of revolution of a motor
the engine was doing 6000 revs
VERB
-
increase the number of rotations per minute
rev up an engine
How To Use rev In A Sentence
- They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.
- As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
- Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
- Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- The scene will be etched on my memory forever.
- You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
- Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
- Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
- Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
- It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.