rev

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛv/

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• Rhymes: -ɛv

Abbreviation of revolutions, rpm

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?

• overrev
• rev up

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!

• panic rev
• revvy
• rev counter

rev (uncountable)

1. Clipping of revenue

   ad rev

rev (plural revs)

1. Clipping of reverend

• ERV, VRE, ev'r, ver, ver.

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

rev f (plural revow)

1. oar

rev

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /rev/, [ˈʁæw]

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

• koralrev
• stenrev

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

rev

1. past participle common of rive

• IPA^(key): /rɛv/
• Rhymes: -ɛv

rev f

1. run
2. escape

From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Germanic *rebaz.

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

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

• revebjelle
• rødrev

From Old Norse rif.

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)

• barriererev
• korallrev

• reve (verb)

• reiv (of rive)

rev

1. imperative of reve
2. simple past of rive

• “rev” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Germanic *rebaz.

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

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

• fjellrev
• raudrev
• revebjølle

From Old Norse rif.

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

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)

• barriererev
• korallrev

• “rev” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Deverbal from revať (“to roar”).

• IPA^(key): [reʋ]

rev m inan

1. roar

• “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, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /reːv/
• Rhymes: -eːv

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

rev c

1. a fishing line

• metrev

• rev in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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

rev n

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

• korallrev

• rev in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rev

1. past indicative of riva

• rev in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rev in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rev in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• rev in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)