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review
[ ri-vyoo ]
noun
- a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- the process of going over a subject again in study or recitation in order to fix it in the memory or summarize the facts.
- an exercise designed or intended for study of this kind.
- a general survey of something, especially in words; a report or account of something.
- an inspection or examination by viewing, especially a formal inspection of any military or naval force, parade, or the like.
- a periodical publication containing articles on current events or affairs, books, art, etc.:
a literary review.
- a judicial reexamination, as by a higher court, of the decision or proceedings in a case.
- a second or repeated view of something.
Synonyms: reexamination, reconsideration
- a viewing of the past; contemplation or consideration of past events, circumstances, or facts.
- Bridge. a recapitulation of the bids made by all players.
- Theater. revue.
verb (used with object)
- to go over (lessons, studies, work, etc.) in review.
- to view, look at, or look over again.
- to inspect, especially formally or officially:
to review the troops.
- to survey mentally; take a survey of:
to review the situation.
- to discuss (a book, play, etc.) in a critical review; write a critical report upon.
Synonyms: criticize
- to look back upon; view retrospectively.
- to present a survey of in speech or writing.
- Law. to reexamine judicially:
a decision to review the case.
- Bridge. to repeat and summarize (all bids made by the players).
verb (used without object)
- to write reviews; review books, movies, etc., as for a newspaper or periodical:
He reviews for some small-town newspaper.
review
/ rɪˈvjuː /
verb
- to look at or examine again
to review a situation
- to look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events, etc); remember
he reviewed his achievements with pride
- to inspect, esp formally or officially
the general reviewed his troops
- to read through or go over in order to correct
- law to re-examine (a decision) judicially
- to write a critical assessment of (a book, film, play, concert, etc), esp as a profession
noun
- Also calledreviewal the act or an instance of reviewing
- a general survey or report
a review of the political situation
- a critical assessment of a book, film, play, concert, etc, esp one printed in a newspaper or periodical
- a publication containing such articles
- ( capital when part of a name )
the Saturday Review
- a second consideration; re-examination
- a retrospective survey
- a formal or official inspection
- the process of rereading a subject or notes on it, esp in preparation for an examination Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)revision
- law judicial re-examination of a case, esp by a superior court
- a less common spelling of revue
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Derived Forms
- reˈviewable, adjective
- reˈviewer, noun
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Other Words From
- re·viewa·ble adjective
- re·viewa·bili·ty noun
- re·viewless adjective
- nonre·viewa·bili·ty noun
- nonre·viewa·ble adjective
- prere·view noun verb (used with object)
- rere·view verb
- unre·viewa·ble adjective
- unre·viewed adjective
- well-re·viewed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of review1
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Example Sentences
In an email exchange a friend said many had repeated this same succinct review but they could never elaborate.
“[I]ndeed, the Civil War was more or less administered from there,” an Esquire review asserts.
The tweets linking to the National Review, that bastion of LGBT equality.
In any case, I welcome the conversation as part of the review of the upcoming slate that we're doing tomorrow.
John L. Smith is a columnist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
And now I am going on to a review of the broad facts of the educational organization of our present world.
We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.
Nothing will be easier then to throw the Poles into the shade of the picture, or to occupy the foreground with a brilliant review.
She did not perceive that she was talking like her father as the sleek geldings ambled in review before them.
It would have been a sort of review—in the face of the city of Dublin, in open defiance of all order and government.
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