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Review   /rˌivjˈu/   Listen
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noun
1.
A new appraisal or evaluation.  Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, revaluation.
2.
An essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play).  Synonyms: critical review, critique, review article.
3.
A subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment.  Synonyms: follow-up, followup, reexamination.
4.
(accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data.  Synonym: limited review.
5.
A variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians.  Synonym: revue.
6.
A periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art.
7.
A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.  Synonyms: recap, recapitulation.
8.
(law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court).
9.
Practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory.  Synonym: brushup.
10.
A formal or official examination.  Synonym: inspection.  "We had to wait for the inspection before we could use the elevator"
verb
(past & past part. reviewed; pres. part. reveiwing)
1.
Look at again; examine again.  Synonym: reexamine.
2.
Appraise critically.  Synonym: critique.  "Please critique this performance"
3.
Hold a review (of troops).  Synonyms: go over, survey.
4.
Refresh one's memory.  Synonyms: brush up, refresh.
5.
Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember.  Synonyms: look back, retrospect.



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"Review" Quotes from Famous Books



... discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; previous UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 1940s, ...
— USAF Fact Sheet 95-03 - Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book • United States Air Force
... influence on the climate, both of the coast and of that in the interior. They act on the clouds as they sweep against and over them, like a comb, extracting all possible moisture, leaving a cool, elastic, and arid continental atmosphere for this central area under present review. The effect is at once pronounced and everywhere visible. Less than two degrees of longitude east of these mountain ranges there is but about (taking the whole line from the thirty-fifth parallel to the northern boundary) an average ...
— Minnesota; Its Character and Climate • Ledyard Bill
... Dr. A. W. Oxford's 'Notes from a Collector's Catalogue' which appeared in 1909. His 'English Cookery Books to the Year 1850' was published in 1913. You will find a useful paper upon old English cookery in the 'Quarterly Review' for January 1894. M. Georges Vicaire's 'Bibliographie Gastronomique,' a handsome octavo volume with facsimiles, appeared at Paris ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... Glyn. "I know what you mean. On state occasions, or when he went to review troops, he would wear grand robes ...
— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn
... in the literary history of the age is the prominence acquired by the leading Reviews and Magazines. Their high position was secured and their power founded beyond the possibility of overturn by the earliest of the series, the "Edinburgh Review." Commenced in 1802, it was placed immediately under the editorship of Francis Jeffrey, who conducted it till 1829. In the earlier part of its history there were not many distinguished men of letters in the empire ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta


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