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
- present participle and gerund of revv
- The act by which an engine is revved.
- (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
- revvings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cranking, crank, ticking-over, ignition, volution, engine generator.
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