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Review   /rˌivjˈu/   Listen
noun
Review  n.  
1.
A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.
2.
An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.
3.
A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.
4.
A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
5.
An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.
6.
(Law) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.
7.
A lesson studied or recited for a second time.
Bill of review (Equity), a bill, in the nature of proceedings in error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a final decree which has been duly signed and enrolled.
Commission of review (Eng. Eccl. Law), a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.
Synonyms: Reexamination; resurvey; retrospect; survey; reconsideration; revisal; revise; revision.


verb
Review  v. t.  (past & past part. reviewed; pres. part. reveiwing)  
1.
To view or see again; to look back on. (R.) "I shall review Sicilia."
2.
To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically:
(a)
To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.
(b)
To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.
(c)
To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.
(d)
(Law) To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.
3.
To retrace; to go over again. "Shall I the long, laborious scene review?"


Review  v. i.  To look back; to make a review.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Review" Quotes from Famous Books



... discuss the official interpretation here of the Government ruling on what constitutes "boneless" codfish; to consider the campaign in Canada to promote there a more popular consumption of fish, and to brightly remark apropos of this that "a fish a day keeps the doctor away"; to review the current issue of The Journal of the Fisheries Society of Japan, containing leading articles on "Are Fishing Motor Boats Able to Encourage in Our Country" and "Fisherman the Late Mr. H. Yamaguchi Well ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... prepared materials for an entire course of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, but was compelled to relinquish his design on account of ill-health and advanced age. He was also the author of numerous scientific articles in the Southern Quarterly Review. He possessed one of the choicest and most extensive scientific libraries in the United States, which was almost entirely destroyed by the great conflagration of 1837: the remnant of it, with his scientific apparatus, was bequeathed ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various
... as the first group of young thinkers, the founders of the "Edinburgh Review,"—Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey, Francis Horner, and Henry Brougham,—whose united ages, when the first number of that review appeared in 1802, made one hundred and seven years. Members of the Whig party, possessing much learning and more vivacity and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various
... this review of the forms in which suggestions for a levy on capital have been put forward, some of the difficulties and injustices inherent in it have already been pointed out. Its advocates seem as a rule to base the demand for it upon an assumption which involves a complete ...
— War-Time Financial Problems • Hartley Withers
... that did it, and this was still relished after 'la Serva Padroma'. When I composed my interlude, my head was filled with these pieces, and they gave me the first idea of it: I was, however, far from imagining they would one day be passed in review by the side of my composition. Had I been a plagiarist, how many pilferings would have been manifest, and what care would have been taken to point them out to the public! But I had done nothing of the ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau


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