rev

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛv/
• Rhymes: -ɛv

Abbreviation of revolutions, rpm

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

1. 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.

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

     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
• revvy
• rev counter

Abbreviation of revolution

rev (plural revs)

1. revolution

rev (plural revs)

1. Abbreviation of reverend.

• ERV, VRE, ev'r, ver, ver.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾɛv/

rev f

1. run
2. escape

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

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

• 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)

• (of rive) reiv

rev

1. imperative of reve
2. simple past of rive

• “rev” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /reːʋ/

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

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.

• fjellrev
• raudrev

From Old Norse rif

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.

rev c or n

1. a fishing line c
2. a reef; rocks close to the water surface. n

• korallrev
• metrev

rev

1. past tense of riva.