review
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From Middle French reveue (French: revue), feminine past participle of reveeir (French: revoir), from Latin revidere.
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review (plural reviews)
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.
- I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
- The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- The victims demanded a full judical review of the case.
- A stage show made up of sketches etc.
- The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- The Times Literary Review is published in London.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.
[edit] Translations
second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact
account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work
judicial reassessment of a case or an event
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periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field
military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs
forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code
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[edit] Verb
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to review (third-person singular simple present reviews, present participle reviewing, simple past and past participle reviewed)
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- The critic reviews every new play in London.
- (obsolete) To see again.
- (obsolete) To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
[edit] Translations
to look broadly over
[edit] See also
- revise (v.)
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of eeirvw
- viewer
