ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Revving

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Revving is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of rev.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of rev.

More Meanings

  1. present participle and gerund of revv
  2. The act by which an engine is revved.
  3. (Internet, uncountable) A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.

Example Sentences

[…] we finally arrived in El Obeid […] after doing the last sixty miles in third gear, with frequent revvings in neutral to keep the engine going.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cranking, crank, ticking-over, ignition, volution, engine generator.

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